Starboard Hotels has announced the acquisition of its first hotel in Scotland as part of ongoing expansion plans. The 71-bedroom Holiday Inn Express Greenock is the group’s second purchase since…
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has unveiled its ‘next generation’ guest experience for Holiday Inn Express brand in Europe, in an effort to appeal to the ‘smart traveller’. In order to…
The year 2015 promises to be even more exciting than last year, with technology leading the transformation. Aditya Sanghi, co-founder and CEO of Hotelogix.com indentifies five trends are set to…
Former Man United teammates Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs have secured planning permission to redevelop the former Stock Exchange in Manchester into a boutique hotel. The Grade-II listed 4 Norfolk…
A plan to completely overhaul Liverpool’s Lime Street as part of a £35m regeneration project is set to include to a new hotel for the area. Regeneration Liverpool, with developers…
The BCFA’s 2015 regional networking programme kicked off in Glasgow last Wednesday (4th March). The event saw 120 BCFA members and their guests travel from Glasgow, and further afield, to…
Plans to build a boutique hotel on Plymouth’s Drake’s Island could be thwarted over conservation concerns due to a colony of rare birds. Council planners are due to consider the…
New research from the organisation Save Money, Cut Carbon has found that the hotel industry in the UK could save a whopping £38m simply by adopting energy efficiency and water efficiency measures in just…
French hotel group Accor has today pledged to double the number of its UK apprentices, bringing the total to 300 by the end of 2016. Later today (March 10), Accor…