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SEEING CLARITY THROUGH THE HAZE-THE ANNUAL HOTEL CONFERENCE #2025AHC Food for thoughtHospitalityReal EstateTourism

SEEING CLARITY THROUGH THE HAZE-THE ANNUAL HOTEL CONFERENCE #2025AHC

#2025AHC. A Dose of Realism to Start It all began with talk of dolphins, as the 1,000 plus delegates sat through the first set of presentations. Why? A major owner of a portfolio of hotel assets was asked how they saw the UK hotel market and he candidly compared it to a chosen animal - a dolphin whose habit of…
October 6, 2025
10 YEARS ON! HOSPITALITY PARTNERSHIPS BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN CONCEPT AND PLAN Food for thoughtHospitalityReal EstateTourism

10 YEARS ON! HOSPITALITY PARTNERSHIPS BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN CONCEPT AND PLAN

The Arc story In 2015 we set up Arc Consulting Partners based on a simple concept: Partners who trusted each other, had different skills sets and could bring to clients their wide-ranging experience in both project appraisal and project implementation - an integrated approach that is more effective than reliance on one individual input or that of a larger and…
August 1, 2025
Bringing back to life a heritage pub asset-Oxford HospitalityReal EstateTourism

Bringing back to life a heritage pub asset-Oxford

The Eagle & Child , also known as the 'Bird and Baby' is a unique pub in central Oxford with an interesting heritage being associated with the Inklings Group of writers (both JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis frequented the venue). The pub has had a chequered history including closure at the time of Covid and exposure to the market over a…
July 29, 2025
Resolving Contested Hospitality Issues-Southern Europe HospitalityReal EstateTourism

Resolving Contested Hospitality Issues-Southern Europe

Owner and Operator Property & Operational Challenges A complex hospitality situation in which a series of property and operational challenges had arisen with contested issues between an owner and operator required industry insight and input. Working with the appointed legal specialists this required an understanding of both ownership rights and the needs of the operator together with assessing the future…
July 24, 2025
Regional Planning and Long Term Destination Development Reviews, UK HospitalityTourism

Regional Planning and Long Term Destination Development Reviews, UK

Delivering Industry data needed for the long term: Planning departments are tasked with long term planning and ensuring a balance of alternative property uses are considered. These destination reviews provide the relevant base line information to assist the development of   planning policy to ensure that opportunities to enhance tourism potential through the provision of additional accommodation are identified and built…
July 24, 2025
Ongoing Resort Development Work in Portugal HospitalityReal EstateTourismUncategorized

Ongoing Resort Development Work in Portugal

The challenge to create a viable mixed-use concept  on a difficult site continues with the many potential upsides needing to overcome physical and planning restrictions. This has called for a mixed range of inputs requiring market analysis and operational skills available in house but needing to be balanced by the physical possibilities of the site itself. Working with David Edwards…
June 25, 2025
Successful Hotel Planning Appeal-South Downs, UK HospitalityReal EstateTourismUncategorized

Successful Hotel Planning Appeal-South Downs, UK

An extremely challenging scheme (from a planning point of view) involving a hotel in a sensitive planning area and initially refused permission by the South Downs National Park Authority but taken to appeal. This required Amberleigh Projects Ltd,  the client, to assemble a wide ranging professional team to work closely together and resulted in securing outline planning permission for an…
June 3, 2025
New Hotel opening announced after Council Review, Bognor Regis, U.K HospitalityReal EstateTourism

New Hotel opening announced after Council Review, Bognor Regis, U.K

Having worked closely with NJB Hotels' Nick Barber (Thanks Nick for your specialist input) for Arun Council in mid 2022 appraising the original options for this site, its great to read in recent press articles that a project we worked on some time ago has finally come to fruition. Much of our work involves the ground work towards long term hotel projects…
May 30, 2025
Sporting Hotel Market Study, Essex Uncategorized

Sporting Hotel Market Study, Essex

We were commissioned by Essex Cricket Club to look at the potential for a hotel on their prime site located in the heart of the city - this involved conducting a market survey , assessing competition and assessing future potential together with working with the appointed architects, Miller Bourne and then holding initial discussions with potential operators. Arc has been…
December 30, 2024
A CHANGING HOSPITALITY LANDSCAPE Food for thoughtHospitalityReal EstateTourism

A CHANGING HOSPITALITY LANDSCAPE

The Annual Hotel Conference in Manchester brought industry professionals together and covered a wide range of topics in an evolving industry backdrop… It ended with a fascinating insight into investment horizons (both short and long term) by the seasoned investor Luke Johnson who pulled no punches and was open about the challenges, but also thrills, of hospitality as a investment…
October 12, 2024