Reading Time: < 1 minuteCompact and bijou – Boutique Hotel News Starwood Capital’s purchase of a 30 per cent stake in YOTEL offers further proof that the design-led, limited

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s heartening to see the International Tourism Partnership publish its list of collective goals to tackle social and environmental issues facing the hospitality industry. The goals contribute

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt must have taken an awful lot of consideration and no small amount of courage for the owners of Boath House, a boutique hotel in

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe UK Competition and Markets Authority’s decision to investigate OTAs could potentially be a real boost for independent hotels, if the CMA decides to get tough on

Reading Time: < 1 minute • Experts may have gone out of fashion in UK political circles, but when it comes to getting planning permission to convert a historic buildings

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt took some friendly advice from a colleague at a retirement party to set Nick Davies on his way to being a hotelier. A successful

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe one constant in life is change, as the saying goes, and it is a maxim that applies to the hotel sector as much as

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn my last editorial comments I reflected on the end of an era, as Morgans New York, a property widely credited as the first boutique

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere are a lot of restaurants these days, both in hotels and standalones – that try so hard to find a point of differentiation that

Reading Time: < 1 minute I really enjoyed a show round of one of the most anticipated new hotels in London recently, when I met Arun Kumar, the GM of The