We provide comprehensive advisory services to owners, investors, funders, developers and operators of hotel and hospitality businesses across the UK.

Hotels, apart-hotels and serviced apartments

Conference and convention centres

Golf and spa resorts

Sporting and cultural venues

Indoor entertainment arenas

Tourism destinations and visitor attractions

Market and Feasibility Studies

Whether for development projects or asset acquisition / repositioning, our studies provide a comprehensive overview of the market opportunity and trading potential through detailed operating projections. Getting under the skin of a project, understanding the particular demand profile and its growth trajectory are key to informing robust financial modelling and projected profitability.

From quick turnaround market opportunity scoping to detailed due diligence our reports are suitable to inform development, branding and funding appraisals. Our work is accepted by all the major operators and lenders active in the sector.

Development and Strategic Advice

From outlining how hotel developments can be structured and funded, through to brand and operator negotiations, we are well placed to advise both landowners and developers. Andrew Renouf has advised numerous local authorities in recent years on intervention to facilitate hotel development as part of place-making town centre and event venue regeneration projects.

With a number of these schemes delivered over the years, we have a detailed understanding of the positive economic and social benefits that can be derived from hotel and leisure developments.

Operator and Brand Selection

With a comprehensive understanding of appropriate brands and operators for specific sites and markets, coupled with strong working relationships with all the major national and international players, we are ideally placed to find the optimum solution for both private and public sector clients.

Our selection process includes extensive engagement and negotiation of commercial terms with operators to ensure the best, most fundable deal for our clients

Operational and Strategic Performance Reviews

Designed for owners, investors and funders to understand if their assets are performing to their potential and if there is any value add upside; including comprehensive benchmarking, operator performance monitoring, operating projections and strategic advice on profit improvement.

Andrew has extensive experience in hospitality management and ownership to underpin his deep understanding of how to optimize business performance.

Planning Support

We provide market reports to support planning applications – from hotel demand / market capacity studies to viability studies and economic impact assessments, Andrew has supported numerous successful planning and change of use applications for hotel developments across the UK.

Clients and partnerships

We work on projects involving major operators

Mark Ashall, Ashall Projects

“We have worked with Andrew and more recently with AR Hospitality Consulting for a number of years on our hotel and serviced apartment projects. Andrew has provided us with feasibility studies, opinions and general advice which has helped us secure funding for four hotel and serviced apartment developments to date and is advising on a number of other pipeline projects. His advice and financial projections are always robust, objective and supported by data, essential qualities when sourcing funding for any hotel project.”

Kamal Pankhania, Westcombe Group

“AR Hospitality Consulting has advised on a number of our completed and emerging development projects, from initial brand and performance scoping, through to full Feasibility Study to underwrite the investment and debt funding. Andrew has become a trusted adviser, with detailed research and robust financial modelling underpinning all outputs. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend AR Hospitality Consulting to anyone planning or funding a hotel development. We have been working with AR Hospitality for over two years and when Andrew was at Avison Young, I have known him since 2018. We are ramping up our hotels group rapidly and his immense experience on feasibility is a great tool to use.”

Anil Khanna, KE Hotels

“Andrew has been a trusted advisor for many years and with AR Hospitality Consulting has advised on our development projects and acquisitions. He has extensive understanding of the value of different brands and optimum selection to meet the market opportunity. AR Hospitality Consulting has provided us with a number of Opinion Letters and Feasibility Studies to support our internal investment decisions as well as debt funding. We have always found Andrew’s advice to be objective and robust, essential when looking at a hotel deal of any kind.”

Shaun Talbot, Virgin Money

“Market and Feasibility studies form a cornerstone of any development or repositioning project when a prospective Borrower is looking to approach a Lender for finance. Over the years that I have known him, Andrew, has consistently demonstrated a detailed understanding of the hospitality sector across a number of markets and I have no hesitation in recommending his services.”

AR Hospitality Consulting, led by Andrew Renouf FIH, provides expert feasibility studies, financial projections, operator selection, and funding support. With over 30 years’ experience, Andrew helps optimise hospitality growth and development.

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