This results season has, so far, been a cracker for people who like things normal. And let’s just nip any thoughts of philosophical discourse in the bud right now, it’s not that sort of column. The hotel sector is largely inclined to define ‘normal’ as ‘how it was last time we were making money without […]
Who will buy Travelodge for ONE BILLION POUNDS *Austin Powers finger*? Yes, the news pendulum has, with the inevitability of gravity, swung back to the budget sector and, in the UK, news means Travelodge. The group enjoyed a refinancing in April, which was of only passing interest to the sector, but now owner GoldenTree, which
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January can take a bit of choking down at the best of times and these times don’t even rate. They are barely times any more. It’s all pre-or-not pandemic. Lockdowns rather than specific months. But before you throw all your Dry January hopes out of the window, it’s also the start of results season, and,
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This week saw viewers in the UK observe domestic tourist Dominic Cummings tell a select committee that if you copy and paste over your blog posts to change them you are not, in fact, changing them. You’re just keeping them current. It didn’t make the European press other than in some quite amusing cartoons, largely
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