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Getting to Grips with Current Trends in Scottish Tourism
Due to the way VisitBritain compiles its statistics using visitor surveys, there is always a time lag in data being published. On top of that, inbound tourism data from the International Passenger Survey is not available for 2025 due to a change in methodology. It is...
The Role of Hotels in Placemaking Mixed-Use Developments
At the recent annual Scottish Hotels Conference hosted by CMS and Savills, I was delighted to host a panel session focusing on the role of hotels in placemaking mixed-use developments. This is an area in which we have considerable experience having advised numerous...
Location, Location, Location…
Everybody knows that the success of a hotel is all about its location, don’t they? Well partly yes, although there are clearly many other factors at play. However when considering hotel occupancy and ADR projections it can be difficult to quantify what difference...
Forecasting in Uncertain Times
As AR Hospitality Consulting celebrates its second anniversary, the market uncertainty that has beset the hospitality sector for so long shows no signs of abating. Employers’ national insurance increases and the Trump administration’s protectionist stance are just the...
Is the UK hotel market pivoting more towards upscale lifestyle products?
There has been a great deal of coverage around the trend of luxury lifestyle and experiential travel driving international tourism growth, attracting ever higher volumes and proportions of disposable income compared with luxury goods. It’s all about consumers trading...
Walking for Charity
Andrew and son Scott were delighted to raise over £1500.00 for St Margaret of Scotland Hospice recently when they walked the West Highland Way. Walking 96 miles from Milngavie to Fort William at the beginning of the Scottish 'summer' with a few drops of rain and...
Shawfair Edinburgh Hotel Development Opportunity
Further to our recent Feasibility Study for Buccleuch Property at Shawfair Park, AR Hospitality Consulting is delighted to be marketing the hotel development opportunity in conjunction with Avison Young. This is a great opportunity to operate a hotel at a growing...
The Changing Face of Business Travel
It has been well publicized that UK-wide hotel performance has bounced back strongly from the impacts of Covid-19. The recovery has been driven by exponential growth in leisure tourism, initially from domestic tourists (pent-up demand and accrued savings) and more...
It’s all about understanding the demand drivers
When considering new development or repositioning opportunities it is often said that a hotel market is already “over supplied” or that there will be insufficient demand in that location. This over simplifies a complex supply and demand relationship with hotel and...
Tourism booming for Scotland’s two largest cities, but what next?
By all accounts it’s been a bumper year so far for Scottish tourism, on the back of a record 2022. As a result, hotels in Scotland’s two largest cities are experiencing an unprecedented resurgence in room revenue performance driven by strong demand and exceptionally...
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