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Hotel chain Motel One valued at €4.1bn as hospitality dealmaking heats up

...The majority owner of Motel One Group has taken full control of the budget hotel chain in a transaction that values it at €4.1bn, the latest sign of a return to dealmaking in the hospitality sector following...

April 9, 2024

Travel & leisure industry

Spain supplants UK as top hotel investment destination amid buoyant demand

...Spain has overtaken the UK as hotel investors’ favourite destination this year, following a series of large hospitality deals in the south European country, according to a survey by CBRE....

April 14, 2024

FT Live

Managing Operational Risk in M&A Transactions

Examining the value of business licensing and property tax in the deal cycle

Travel

Back to Georgia, where ‘a guest is a gift from God’

...“A guest is a gift from God” might be a dusty old Georgian proverb but it remains a national mantra....

March 7, 2024

Travel

Inside the elite Swiss school for hotel managers

...“I’m planning to write a book about how we are going from an experience economy to a hospitality economy,” Venzin says....

March 23, 2024

Martin Sandbu

A missed opportunity for a China-EU grand bargain

...Many will dismiss a China-EU grand bargain as unrealistic....

May 10, 2024

HTSIHTSI autumn travel special

Sonia Cheng: ‘The key is to design a hotel that doesn’t feel like a hotel’

...She had a degree in applied mathematics from Harvard, and a few years each at Morgan Stanley and Warburg Pincus under her belt, but zero formal hospitality experience....

October 25, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Luke Edward Hall

Tub-thumping reasons for choosing a bath over a shower

...Bruises, a Montreal-based gallery, showed a cast-iron tub painted by the artist Trevor Bourke with a bucolic scene of a shepherdess walking lambs by a river....

May 13, 2024

News in-depthCoronavirus

Insurance battles over UK Covid lockdowns rage on in courts

...Legal wrangling over insurance was just one of many recent frustrations for the hospitality industry alongside electricity prices, transport sector strikes and Brexit, he said....

May 13, 2024

News in-depthRetail & Consumer industry

UK hospitality has mixed feelings about Christmas cheer

...“As with quite a lot of things at the moment in hospitality, the pain falls very unevenly,” he said....

December 13, 2023

US immigration

Undocumented workers struggle with New York’s underground economy

...New York’s hospitality industry “absolutely still needs labour,” said Andrew Rigie, executive director of the NYC Hospitality Alliance, a trade group for the city’s restaurants and bars....

May 7, 2024

ExplainerManagement

Hospitality bosses share tips for navigating industry challenges

...Data from CGA Insight this summer revealed 61 per cent of British hospitality businesses were experiencing staff shortages and many of those had reduced their trading hours as a result....

December 10, 2023

Anglo American PLC

BHP-Anglo American: a quick Q&A

...The charts below, from Jefferies, are a little old but show the trend: The strategy’s now exhausted but digging a new mine takes a long time, is very expensive, and annoys a lot of people....

April 25, 2024

ReviewDance

Hung Dance, London review — a man, a woman and a giant feather

...This gives performances a remarkable intimacy and lends urgency and tension to a piece like Birdy that might struggle to register with the longer sightlines of a conventional venue....

April 22, 2024

HTSI

HTSI editor’s letter: a secret art trail, a Scandi silo and a Sinner

...As someone who loves both a creepy stone circle and a robust ramble through a field, I was ridiculously excited to discover that, for the past 10 years, the artist Andy Goldsworthy has been working on an...

April 27, 2024

Letter

Letter: An auditors’ report, clean or otherwise, is a privilege not a right

...For a company, receiving an auditors’ report — clean or otherwise — is a privilege not a right. Third, auditors need insightful judgment....

May 13, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

Robin Lane Fox

How I learnt to love the plant varieties I once shunned

...Foggy Bottom is not a wilded garden nor a messy prairie....

May 10, 2024

Letter

Letter: A Lidl goes a long way

From Dora Henry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK

April 12, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

A new growth plan for London

...Its standing as a launch pad for trade with mainland Europe also took a blow following the Brexit referendum....

May 10, 2024

Pilita Clark

Domestic violence is a workplace issue

...The problem has a ripple effect. Nearly 40 per cent of people affected by domestic violence say their co-workers were also affected, a Canadian study showed....

May 12, 2024

Markets

Brace yourselves for the *checks sellside note* Santa Claus rally!

...Or perhaps it was a trap, and we’ve walked right into it....

May 13, 2024

Jonathan Moules

An allotment needs a man with a plan — and a plan B

...But becoming the custodian of a patch of soil in inner-city London has changed me in many ways, including becoming a man with a plan....

April 5, 2024

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

How to build a cellar on a budget: a guide to central Europe

...It was surprisingly easy to confuse a fine Grüner with a fine Chardonnay....

April 6, 2024

Economists Exchange

Arthur Laffer: ‘I made a vow that I would never, ever work for a government again’

...I’ll make you a bet that balance sheet doesn’t shrink a hell of a lot in the next year. I’m just guessing. CG: Do you think the Fed should tighten monetary policy more?...

May 8, 2024

Travel

A roof with a view: Barcelona’s revamped Grand Hotel Central

...A published author? Bring a copy of your book to place in the library and you’ll receive a 30 per cent discount. Elevator pitch: A Bentley with a funky playlist....

April 28, 2024

Letter

Letter: A stockbroker’s nostalgia for a world before Big Bang

...This was a reference to the historic restriction of stock exchange members to 1,399, a number set by the Corporation of London....

April 26, 2024

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