European travellers’ sentiment towards both domestic and inter-regional travel is improving, according to a European Travel Commission survey conducted at the end of 2020 with European citizens from 10 high-volume source markets.

Seemingly wisely, many hotels have invested in business interruption insurance. Along comes a pandemic. Governments order hotels closed. Hotels seek to collect on the insurance. Alas, there’s a devil in the details.

Merilee Karr, Chair of the UK Short Term Accommodation Association and CEO of UnderTheDoormat presents her thoughts on how the relationship hotel brands have with the short-term rentals sector is likely to change radically this year.

The Supreme Court has upheld its judgement in favour of policyholders, on the Financial Conduct Authority’s business interruption insurance test case

The WTTC has called for unvaccinated travellers not to be discriminated against.

As UK hospitals and care facilities are continuing to struggle with capacity due to the current wave of COVID-19, a group of UK hoteliers have been calling for the government and NHS trusts to work with them to accommodate patients in safely adapted hotels.

The UK and Ireland were expected to lead distress-driven transactions this year, according to Whitebridge Hospitality.

Hostelworld said that it was evaluating its future funding requirements and was actively evaluating both debt and equity options.

Whitbread said that it would continue to protect its liquidity as it anticipated opportunity as a result of the pandemic.

Service Properties Trust has received a notice of termination from Hyatt with respect to the management agreement for 22 Hyatt Place hotels owned by subsidiaries of SVC.