Greater London
Coverage of the hotel and hospitality sector across Greater London, encompassing a wide range of properties from luxury hotels to budget accommodations. Reporting includes new openings, refurbishments, investment activity, and market performance across boroughs. Also explores how tourism, business travel, events, and regeneration projects drive demand and shape the city’s dynamic hospitality landscape.
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May- 2021 -13 MayCoronavirus
City centres hotels must ‘pivot to prosper’, warns RSM
City centre hotels must change their route to market to help secure a greater share of pent-up demand, according to global accountancy firm RSM. The firm said that the predicted sustained increase in consumer spending over the coming months will see country and coastal operators better placed to enjoy a…
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Oct- 2020 -26 OctoberHotels
Plans for £1bn Kensington Forum redevelopment approved
Plans to redevelop the Kensington Forum hotel have been greenlit by the Deputy Mayor of London, Jules Pipe, and the Greater London Authority (GLA). The site is already the largest Holiday Inn in Europe, hosting over 900 rooms. However, the new development will include a 1,100-room hotel, multiple restaurants and…
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May- 2019 -2 MayHotel Brands
Splendid Hospitality Group acquires Stanwell Heathrow Hotel
The Stanwell Heathrow Hotel and Restaurant, in the village of Stanwell on the south side of Heathrow Airport, has been acquired by the Splendid Hospitality Group. Comprising the main house, a modern extension, and a stable block, the hotel provides 53 en-suite guest bedrooms arranged across the three buildings. Alongside…
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Mar- 2019 -28 MarchProperty
Local councils acquired ‘record number’ of hotels in 2018
Local councils in Britain spent record amounts on buying hotels in 2018, spending £93m an increase of 182% in 2017 (£33m). This is according to the latest research from property adviser Knight Frank which said it “demonstrates the increasing appetite for local authorities to capitalise on low interest central government…
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Oct- 2018 -19 OctoberFeatures
How has the luxury hotel market evolved?
“I think the likes of the Claridges and the Ritz – beautiful properties and wonderful places but attract mostly the older generation – will have to make some changes eventually or be left behind,” says Ronald Homsy, CEO and co-founder of the Utopian Hotel Collection, a newly created hospitality consortium…
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2 OctoberHotel Brands
Hyatt announces seventh branded hotel in UK
Hyatt Hotels has announced it has entered into a franchise agreement with Resolution Property, to open a Hyatt Place hotel at Black Lion House on Whitechapel Road in Aldgate – its seventh hotel in the UK. Hyatt Place London City/East will be a 280-room hotel managed by Cycas Hospitality and…
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Aug- 2018 -29 AugustHotel Brands
Dalata Hotel Group acquires Clayton Hotel Aldgate lease for £91m
Dalata Hotel Group has exchanged contracts to acquire the long leasehold interest of a hotel under development, located at Aldgate, London for a total consideration of £91m. As part of the transaction Dalata will acquire the entire issued share capital of Hintergard Limited from Aldgate Hotel Holdco, an investment vehicle…
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Apr- 2018 -5 AprilPeople
‘Undervalued’ hospitality workers want 42.4% pay rise
Professional CV writing specialists Purple CV, carried out a survey of 2,500 British workers and found that those in the hospitality sector believed they deserved an average of a 42.4% pay rise. This is compared to lawyers who felt they deserved a 30% wage increase, charity workers who desired a…
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Nov- 2017 -8 NovemberTrade Organisations
BHA condemns Sadiq Khan’s ‘unfair’ London ‘tourist tax’
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) has hit back at the Greater London Assembly’s (GLA) plans to introduce a ‘bed tax’ for the capital’s hotel rooms. The London Assembly Economy Committee met yesterday to further discuss the tax which it says could add between £91m to £364m a year to the…
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Jul- 2017 -7 JulyEvents
World’s first binge-watching hotel comes to London
A hotel dedicated to binge-watching has come to London, where the only way to pay for a stay is to binge watch shows on Netflix. The Bed ‘N’ Binge Retreat has been set up by mobile network Three in partnership with Samsung to promote the network’s new Go Binge service.…
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