
Reading Time: 5 minutesUK: IHM’s Urban Living Festival [ULF] returns for its third edition on 5-6 July 2023 as CEOs, ‘best of breed’ speakers and attendees, sponsors and solution providers come together to collectively share best practice, network, map the industry’s future and do business from right across the travel, hospitality and real estate landscape.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Zorca Holding, a subsidiary of investment company Orca Holding, has secured £26.3 million from Leumi UK to acquire and merge two hotels in Bloomsbury into a 74-bed property.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Luxury lifestyle hotel The Twenty Two, located in Mayfair, London, has appointed Michelle Walder as its managing director, effective 3 July 2023.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Hotelier Mark Fuller and Michelin-star chef Garry Hollihead have reunited after 10 years to launch a Japanese restaurant Wild Heart at Karma Sanctum Soho Hotel in London.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Singaporean investor KOP Group has purchased the 105-room Burns Hotel located in Earls Court, London off a guide price of £35 million.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Marking the ninth hotel in the city of London for Hyatt, the 204-room Regency London Blackfriars has opened.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEU: Lifestyle hotel brand art’otel, owned by PPHE Hotel Group, has revealed expansion plans in three European cities between autumn 2023 and early 2024.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Formerly the Dorsett City London, the hotel has undergone a rebrand and has relaunched as the independent property Hotel Saint in Aldgate.

Reading Time: 4 minutesUK: The UK’s travel and tourism sector is expected to see a boost of more than £200 million as a result of King Charles III’s Coronation weekend [6-8 May] and fortnight around those dates.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: London-based owner-operator Clermont Hotel Group has opened The Academy, a learning and development centre to train new and existing employees.