An up-to-date, well maintained and professionally marketed spa can enhance your hotel business in ways well beyond the direct income it can generate. While many independent hotels are deliberating about investing in spas, a good number sit underutilised, often poorly maintained and poorly marketed. The choice to upgrade existing facilities or to create a shiny […]
Increasingly, our clients in the independent hotel sector are seeking to position themselves as wedding venues; whether just for receptions and after-parties or for the full service including non-religious ceremonies, and both indoors and outdoors. Reasons for chasing the wedding pound Commercially speaking, it makes good sense to consider the wedding sector as a key […]
We are pleased to announce that Fit Out Finance has chosen to take a stand at Hotelympia, which takes place at ExCel London on 5th to 8th March. Our stand will be 2933 in the Hospitality Tech zone. This follows on from our success exhibiting at the Independent Hotel Show last October – a show […]
OK, I can’t claim to have been in the business funding industry since 400 BC (though I’m reasonably certain that it existed then), but there is something about the claim that there is no funding for start ups that always puts me in mind of this quote. You see, one of the first things I learn […]
All businesses have their own myths, a remarkable persistent myth around business borrowing is the notion that you have to write a ‘special’ business plan for lenders; by special, the implication is always that figures need to be bumped up, that it should include glossy pages and pictures and that there should be loads of […]