Casually tapping on their smartphones and smoking in the sunshine, the young men gathered outside the once grand, but now slightly downmarket, hotel appeared carefree and relaxed. Their untroubled, if somewhat bored, demeanour is perhaps no surprise. Having successfully reached the UK as asylum seekers, they are now guests of the British taxpayer with free … Read more
For many people 2020 is likely going to be the year of the staycation. You might think that hotel companies would shudder at this prospect. But not Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG), which expects its low-budget Holiday Inn brand to do well from the spike in domestic travel both in the coming months and further down … Read more
Intercontinental Hotels and Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group expected to be latest firms to warn of job losses as Britain reels from fallout of coronavirus The UK has haemorrhaged more than 134,000 jobs since March The pandemic is also hammering restaurants, with some 22,000 jobs in the sector have been shed this year By Matt Oliver … Read more
Do you find searching for accommodation an exhausting task? Help is at hand as we reveal the pros and cons of all the best options from Airbnb to youth hostels… AIRBNB When it comes to booking accommodation, there are options galore, from Airbnb to hotels Invented in San Francisco in 2007, when two friends charged … Read more
Hey, good lookin’! Welcome to the most eye-catching hotels in the world – architectural gems so aesthetically pleasing that they’ve been deemed worthy of inclusion in the Design Hotels collection, ‘a handpicked portfolio of one-of-a-kind properties across the globe’. Here we present our picks of a most impressive crop, from a jaw-dropping resort in the … Read more
Our mahout spun around, bewildered. ‘Bo!’ Bo? Towering forests of napier grass offered no clues. Moments earlier, Bo had been peppering her back with dirt; apparently, the perfect sunscreen. Now, we couldn’t see her for dust. ‘BO!’ The shout fell again on deaf, oversized ears. ‘He’s lost his elephant,’ grinned seven-year-old Felix. It was day … Read more
Britain pours tens of millions of aid money into African five-star hotels, Indian celebrity chef’s cookware brand and Kenyan coffee shops CDC Group is supposed to make investments to benefit world’s poorest places It pumped £43million into international business hotel chain Onomo since 2017 It also invested into hotel chain Azalai which owns five-star hotels … Read more
Hack of MGM hotels may have exposed personal data of 142 MILLION guests – more than TEN TIMES the number previously reported A hack last year of MGM may be much larger than previously thought Hackers are selling personal data from more than 142 million guests Previous reports pegged the figure at about 10.6 million … Read more
The British holiday season is set to start within a fortnight as Ministers plan to allow hotels and holiday parks to reopen on July 4. Although Downing Street says that no final decision has yet been taken on restarting the £130 billion-a-year domestic tourism industry, The Mail on Sunday understands that Whitehall officials have been … Read more
Shay Razaei’s former Instant Hotel teammate Mikey Gelo has confirmed her tragic death. Speaking to Daily Mail Australia on Sunday, the Channel Seven reality TV star said Shay passed away two weeks ago at age 33, and that her funeral was held last Wednesday. In recent days, Shay’s Instagram has been flooded with comments speculating that … Read more