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The Features section offers in-depth, editorially-led coverage of the key trends, challenges, and innovations shaping the UK hotel and hospitality sector. Designed for hoteliers, operators, and senior executives, these long-form articles provide strategic analysis, expert interviews, and practical insights across a wide range of commercial and operational themes.

Coverage includes deep dives into hotel design and refurbishment, sustainability initiatives, staff recruitment and retention, technological adoption, guest experience strategies, supply chain partnerships, and investment outlooks. With a focus on forward-looking thinking and lessons from across the sector, Features content is crafted to support better decision-making, spark new ideas, and offer context behind the headlines. Each piece is tailored to the real-world concerns of professionals running, managing, or investing in hotels.

Features

The Features section offers in-depth, editorially-led coverage of the key trends, challenges, and innovations shaping the UK hotel and hospitality sector. Designed for hoteliers, operators, and senior executives, these long-form articles provide strategic analysis, expert interviews, and practical insights across a wide range of commercial and operational themes.

Coverage includes deep dives into hotel design and refurbishment, sustainability initiatives, staff recruitment and retention, technological adoption, guest experience strategies, supply chain partnerships, and investment outlooks. With a focus on forward-looking thinking and lessons from across the sector, Features content is crafted to support better decision-making, spark new ideas, and offer context behind the headlines. Each piece is tailored to the real-world concerns of professionals running, managing, or investing in hotels.

How to open a new hotel

Q: When the refurb is finished in just over six weeks, I’ll be launching my brand new first…

Allergen Labelling: How to do it right

Q: There have been lots of legal changes recently, including the need to label all the…

How to bridge the online and offline world for guests

The world of hospitality is all about making the right connections with guests. From the…

How to deal with the competition

Q: Our hotel is in an area of outstanding natural beauty and we get a lot of tourists; we…

Should hoteliers employ ex-offenders?

Recruiting qualified, experienced personnel is an ongoing challenge for many hotel…

Should you use zero hour contracts?

Zero hours contracts are popular in our sector, according to the Office for National…

How to find a quality chef

Q: For the last 8-12 months, we’ve had real problems finding and keeping a high-quality…

How to solve a problem like productivity

Chancellor George Osborne recently pledged that tackling Britain’s poor productivity is now…

Is customer loyalty dead?

Q: I read last month’s column about introducing a loyalty scheme, but then I’ve also read a…

How to get the best valuation for your hotel

When it comes to getting the best valuation for your hotel there are some vital things to…