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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
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
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Hospitality Headlines Say It All – Or do They? Food for thoughtHospitalityReal EstateTourism

Hospitality Headlines Say It All – Or do They?

A Bleak Landscape The headlines do, to an extent, say it all. It’s a challenging time - but does the mood music match reality or only selected elements of it? We explore current issues facing the sector here. News bulletins and posts focus on the relatively weak economic environment. This presents nothing but negatives: consumers are tightening their belts, interest…
May 11, 2023
WHATS NEXT? A REALITY CHECK FROM THE ANNUAL HOTEL CONFERENCE Food for thoughtHospitality

WHATS NEXT? A REALITY CHECK FROM THE ANNUAL HOTEL CONFERENCE

David Smith, Economics editor of the Sunday Times opened up two days of intense industry networking at the Annual Hotel Conference (held this last week in Manchester).  His overview provided some encouraging economic forecasts that put doom and gloom in the shadows and delegates in a positive mood at the outset of the event. Our brief article picks up some…
October 7, 2022
The big climb back: Unlocking a path to reset post pandemic Food for thought

The big climb back: Unlocking a path to reset post pandemic

As prospects for normality finally seem within reach, business leaders, investors, employees, suppliers and the professional community are all planning their respective climbs back up the mountain. The path to a reset is becoming clearer, if still surrounded in uncertainty....we explore how this will evolve in our article below. A shot in the arm will enable both winners and losers…
March 1, 2021
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From hero to zero and back again Food for thoughtHospitality

From hero to zero and back again

Hotel businesses took a battering that has recorded unheard of room occupancies of 0% to 15% alongside closed pubs, empty restaurants, and a food and a beverage offering limited to take-aways and home delivery. Plummeting investment Uncertain market conditions took hold, investment plummeted and jobs were lost. Whitbread announced 1,500 redundancies against earlier predictions of 6,000; by now means good…
November 23, 2020
Botswana regional tourism master plan Food for thoughtTourism

Botswana regional tourism master plan

This location includes Chobe National Park and the Chobe River which together represent one of Botswana’s richest wildlife areas and it is where both the Chobe and Zambezi rivers join and the point at which Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe meet. Kasane-Kazungula has been a growing wildlife tourism destination for some years and its one hour drive time from the…
October 10, 2020