{"id":36118,"date":"2023-02-01T10:58:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T10:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=36118"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:32:31","slug":"travelodge-trading-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/news\/travelodge-trading-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelodge announces its trading update for 2022 and confirms completion of a lease regear with its biggest landlord LXI REIT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travelodge has completed on a regear of its leases with LXi REIT. The mutually beneficial regear introduces capped rent reviews, rent smoothing and extending the leases by an average of nine years across 122 hotels.<\/h2>\n

To support Travelodge\u2019s sustainability plan, \u2018Better Future\u2019 \u2013 the updated leases include green lease provisions.<\/h2>\n

Today, Travelodge, one of the UK\u2019s largest hotel brands, which operates 595 hotels across the UK, Ireland and Spain announces record results for 2022 and the completion of a mutually beneficial lease re-gear with its largest landlord,\u00a0 LXI REIT for the majority of the properties in the 122 Travelodge hotel portfolio they acquired as part of Secure Income REIT merger in 2022.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

Travelodge has delivered record financial results in 2022, significantly ahead of its <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>previous best year in 2019. This performance reflected the strength and resilience <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>of the UK budget hotel market which performed well in 2022, driven by strong <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>levels of domestic leisure demand and a rapid recovery in \u2018blue collar\u2019 business<\/span>\u00a0demand, with a more gradual recovery in \u2018white collar\u2019 corporate demand.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

UK like-for-like RevPAR growth outperformed the Smith Travel Research (STR) <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>MSE benchmark competitive segment, marking the eight consecutive year of <\/span>\u00a0Travelodge outperformance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

Total underlying revenues for the year were up c. 25%, on 2019 levels and <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Travelodge delivered record profits in the year with EBITDA (adjusted) expected <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to be between \u00a3210m and \u00a3215m (2019: \u00a3129.1m, 2021: \u00a381.1m)(unaudited).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

The strong leisure and \u2018blue collar\u2019 business demand has continued in the first weeks of 2023, as customers continue to prioritise travel and seek out value in tough economic times.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

We are also pleased to confirm that the administrators have issued their final report, confirming the CVA has now been fully implemented and is now formally at an end. Based on the expected EBITDA range above, reflecting Travelodge\u2019s excellent 2022 trading performance, we now expect to make a one-off payment under the excess cumulative EBITDA landlord rent payment clause shortly after we publish our 2022 audited annual report and accounts. We thank our landlords for their support and look forward to continuing to work together.<\/span><\/h4>\n

On 27 January 2023 we completed on our lease regear with LXI REIT plc on 97\u00a0 of the 122 Travelodge hotels which they acquired as part of the Secure Income\u00a0 REIT acquisition, with the remainder subject to agreement by the superior\u00a0 landlords.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

As part of the LXI lease regear, Travelodge has negotiated new caps and collars on rent reviews to limit rental increases during high inflation periods and lease extensions averaging 9 years for all 122 hotels. Previously the rent increases were based on uncapped RPI, but have now been converted to CPI+0.5% with a\u00a0 cap (maximum uplift) of 4% and a collar (minimum uplift) of 1%.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

The regear also includes rent smoothing across the portfolio, resetting rent levels for the 122 Travelodge hotels to reflect the trading performance of each site. The total rent across the hotels remains the same, but has been smoothed on a site by site basis, to ensure that each hotel has a robust stand-alone rent\u00a0 cover.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

Also new green lease provisions have been added to support Travelodge\u2019s sustainability plan, \u2018\u2018Better Future\u2019. This includes:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n
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    Sharing of energy, water, recycling and waste data.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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    Co-operating on the environment, social and governance strategies of the landlord and tenant.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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    Future proofing the leases to ensure the landlord has the necessary rights to enter the properties to make environmental performance improvements.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    This lease regear also provides a secure long term, fixed-rate income for LXI\u00a0 REIT and is expected to have a materially positive impact on their Travelodge hotel asset portfolio and further enhance the investment attraction of these hotels.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

    Jo Boydell, Travelodge, Chief Executive said:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    \u201cWe are delighted to announce record results for 2022, with our eighth consecutive year of RevPAR growth outperformance against our competitive segment and EBITDA significantly ahead of 2019 levels. <\/span>Strong trading has continued into the first few weeks of 2023 with leisure and \u2018blue collar\u2019\u00a0 customers continuing to prioritise travel and seek out value in tough economic times.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

    \u201c<\/span>We are also very pleased to confirm the completion of a mutually beneficial\u00a0 lease re-gear with our largest landlord, LXI REIT, which caps future rent\u00a0 increases and includes green lease clauses to support our sustainability plan\u00a0 \u201cBetter Future\u201d.<\/span>\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travelodge has completed on a regear of its leases with LXi REIT. The mutually beneficial regear introduces capped rent reviews, rent smoothing and extending the leases by an average of nine years across 122 hotels. To support Travelodge\u2019s sustainability plan, \u2018Better Future\u2019 \u2013 the updated leases include green lease provisions. Today, Travelodge, one of the […]","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":17102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}