Today, Travelodge, one of London’s largest hotel chain’s, which operates 67 hotels in the city, has announced it is looking to fill 220 permanent positions across its London properties and its forthcoming new openings in Brent Cross, Wood Green and Harrow.
All 220 positions are permanent and include the following roles: Hotel Mangers, Assistant Hotel Managers, Receptionists, Bar Café team members, Housekeeping and Guest Room Cleaners.
London is a key growth area for Travelodge and it has identified the opportunity to grow its business over the next eight to ten years with over 100 hotels across the boroughs.
Craig Bonnar, Travelodge Chief Operating Officer said:
“We are currently recruiting for 220 people to join our London Travelodge team. If you have passion, determination and a real desire to look after people then we will help you learn the rest. Joining a hotel company opens the door to training, career progression and even roles in new countries.”
“At Travelodge, we are committed in developing our people. We have a successful in-house management development programme in place called Aspire. Over the years we have helped hundreds of colleagues climb the career ladder from an entry level position into management.”
London is a key growth area for us and we have identified the potential to grow our business in the capital with a further 100 hotels over the next eight to ten years. People joining the company now on an entry level have a great opportunity of becoming our hotel managers of the future.”
Travelodge has chosen London as the key pad to launch its new ‘SuperRooms’, bringing the ‘premium economy’ concept familiar to airline users to the UK budget hotel market.
This new class of room, the first of its kind in the UK budget hotel market, dials up the comfort factor with a concept designed especially for business and leisure customers who want the extra choice of a more premium room. The SuperRoom has been launched in central London Travelodge hotels.
Travelodge operates 546 hotels across the UK Ireland and Spain. Its welcomes over 18 million customers every year and currently has 10,000 colleagues currently working across its business. Today the company has more business customers staying across its London hotels than ever before.
To find out more about these jobs and careers at Travelodge, please visit: https://www.travelodge.co.uk/careers/.
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Email: pressoffice@travelodge.co.uk
About Travelodge
Founded in 1985, Travelodge is one of the UK’s leading hotel brands. There are 544 Travelodge hotels and 40,653 rooms in the UK, Spain and Ireland as at May 2017. Travelodge welcomes over 18 million customers every year and 10,000 colleagues work across the business.