Booker, the UK’s leading food and drink wholesaler, will host its annual catering trade show at the NEC, Birmingham for the first time this year, moving to the larger site with greater capacity due to increased demand and attendance. Now in its sixth year, the largest showcase event in the Booker calendar will see the […]
7 Hospitality Management (7H) has been appointed to manage Islay Cottages, a cottage and guest house business on the Isle of Islay. The guest house, Kilchoman House, is a refined country house set amid the island’s landscapes, and operates alongside Islay Cottages, a collection of self-catering cottages. Under 7H, it said Islay Cottages will benefit […]
Events and hospitality operator Hangover Weekends has acquired Park Farm Hotel near Gateshead for an undisclosed sum. The property, on the western edge of Gateshead, comprises a Grade II-listed Georgian house with four bedrooms and 12 additional letting rooms arranged in a rear courtyard. It is set in four acres of land adjoining farmland and […]
The Douglas Arms Hotel in Castle Douglas has been brought to market with a freehold asking price of £225,000. The 18th Century former coaching inn, which sits in the centre of the Dumfries and Galloway town, comprises 23 letting bedrooms, a public bar, a restaurant and three function rooms. It also includes a three-bedroom apartment […]
The global hotel construction pipeline ascended to a record-high 15,871 projects with 2,436,225 rooms, up 3% by projects and 2% by rooms year-over-year (YOY) during the second quarter of the year, according to Lodging Econometrics’ (LE’s) Q2 2025 Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report. Worldwide, at the close of the second quarter, there are 6,257 projects/1,086,245 […]
The number of hospitality businesses entering insolvency eased slightly in the first half of 2025, but have still remained “historically high”, according to new findings from Buchler Phillips. The firm’s Hospitality Index of insolvencies found that 1,706 accommodation and food service companies, including hotels, restaurants and pubs, closed in the six months to June 2025, […]
Soho House and Co has agreed a $2.7bn (£2.1bn) take-private deal by MCR Hotels that will see its shares removed from the New York Stock Exchange. The agreement will see shareholders receive $9 (£6.66) per share in cash – an 83% premium on the company’s share price before the deal was proposed in December 2024. […]
Property company Landsec has agreed to sell its Queen Anne’s Mansions office block in central London to Arora Group for £245m. The unconditional deal, expected to complete in December, marks early progress towards Landsec’s target of releasing £2bn from its office portfolio by 2030. The strategy aims to refocus investment on assets delivering long-term income […]
Radisson RED has launched a hotel in central Oslo, Norway, that it says is one of the first two in the world to achieve verified net zero status. Radisson RED Oslo City Centre has been certified as meeting the 2040 requirements of the Net Zero Methodology for Hotels, verified by third-party body TÜV Rheinland. The […]
Cairn Hotel Group has introduced a new menu strategy across 15 of its UK hotels in a move aimed at improving consistency and raising standards in hotel dining. The updated menus, launched this week, build on last year’s development work and feature a range of dishes that combine British and Mediterranean influences, with a focus […]
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