Hotel, leisure and travel

We help make UK and international hotel and leisure projects happen.

Our multidisciplinary team bring a combination of technical skills and sector experience.

We have considerable experience in supporting the Hotel and Leisure Sector and have a real understanding of the issues and complexities in developing, owning and successfully operating (or supplying to) a hotel or leisure business, whether based in the UK or overseas.

Our UK and global hotel, leisure and tourism experience and expansive network of hospitality professional and contacts enables us to become a valued member of the professional team.

The team works closely with other Thomas Eggar sector groups, in particular:

• Retail / franchising
• Aviation

Our services split into two areas:

• UK hospitality industry
• International hotel and resort projects

We have lawyers who have had in-house careers with hotel groups, travel and aviation companies, thus bringing with them a real practical understanding of the hospitality, leisure and travel sector.

Clients and professional contacts

We work with and support the full range of interested parties including:

• Developers
• Owners
• Investment funds and consortiums
• Hotel and leisure consultancies
• Financiers - banks
• Private equity
• Health and fitness / leisure facility operators
• Pub chains
• Restaurant groups
• Catering companies
• Branded operators and Independents - budgets through to upper upscale and luxury resorts
• Architects (AD/LD/ID)
• Construction companies, M&E and Project management teams
• Resort operators
• HR and training companies focusing on the hotel industry
• Security providers and facilities management
• Airlines
• Tour operators and travel agents
• Internet based / web 2.0 distribution channels
• Marketing and PR companies
• F&B, retail and franchised brands
• Technology and telecommunication providers.

Services include:

• Property investment / site acquisition
• Planning
• Design, development, construction
• Licensing - Intoxicating Liquor, Entertainment and Gaming (UK)
• Hotel operation - MOUs / Letters of Intent, Management, Leases, Franchises tender process and negotiations.
• M&A, including purchase of under-performing hotel assets
• IPOs - AIM and PLUS markets, including pre-IPO preparation
• Retail, F&B concessions, including landlord and tenant / licences
• Hard and soft refurbishments, FF&E / CAPEX issues
• Resort management
• Insurance and risk management
• HR and personnel issues, including incentives, talent management, managed exits and rationalisation
• Health and safety
• Contracts - routes to market / distribution channels
• Contracts - supply chain management and outsourcing, including tender process / RFP support
• Technology
• Intellectual property and brand protection, co-branding
• Capital raising, project finance and funding - debt and equity
• Due diligence for financiers
• Asset management
  - Ownership and operating structures
  - Tax advice - off-shoring
  - Under-performing assets
  - Exit strategies
• Insolvency and restructuring
• Dispute resolution, including performance management
• Aviation - setting up airlift ot airline route arrangements.