Travelodge outlines plans for Scottish expansion
Travelodge has opened the first branded hotel in Peterhead, the first of three hotel openings in Scotland this year for the budget chain.
It will also open a 74-room hotel in Stirling and a 54-room Travelodge in Inverness towards the end of 2017.
These will feature the next generation of the company’s ‘Travelodgical’ contemporary room design.
Peterhead Travelodge is a purpose-built 63-room hotel with on-site car-parking in the heart of the town centre on Chapel Street.
At the opening this week, the chain announced that Scotland remains a key growth area and that it has identified 21 new sites where it could potentially open a hotel.
From this target list, nine locations could get their first branded hotel – Ardrossan, Aviemore, Galashiels, Kirkwall, Lerwick, Loch Lomond, Montrose, Oban and Pitlochry.
Five locations from the target list could get their first Travelodge hotel – St Andrews, East Kilbride, Elgin, Greenock and Newton Mearns.
Travelodge is also looking to double its portfolio of hotels in Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow, with a further five hotels.
The group expects to open 15 new hotels across the UK in 2017, growing its network of hotels to 559 locations in the UK, Spain and Ireland.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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