Travelodge opens its seventh hotel in Glasgow by Queen Elizabeth University Hospital

Travelodge opens its seventh hotel in Glasgow by Queen Elizabeth

University Hospital  

Glasgow’s first branded budget hotel chain wants to continue to expand in the city with a further five hotels as part of its Scottish expansion programme to open a further 21 hotels

Collectively this Scottish Expansion programme would represent an investment of £125 million for third party investors and a job creation of 380

Today, Travelodge, Scotland’s first budget hotel chain has opened its 45th Scottish hotel by the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Govan. This is the company’s seventh hotel in Glasgow and its 578th within its portfolio.

Glasgow Govan Travelodge, a 60 room hotel with on-site restaurant called the Bar Café, is the closet hotel to the UK and Europe’s largest University hospital campus. It represents an investment of £5 million for the landlord and has created 15 new jobs within the community.          

At the official opening of Glasgow Govan Travelodge, the company’s 169^th hospital location hotel, the brand announced that Scotland is a key development area and it is actively searching for a further 21 hotel sites which includes five hotels in Glasgow. Collectively this expansion programme of 21 hotels would represent an investment of £125million for third party investors and a job creation of 380 new jobs. 

Sites in Glasgow include: Glasgow (centre), Glasgow East M8, Glasgow SECC, Glasgow Silverburn, and Glasgow West End. The Glasgow expansion would represent an investment of £40million for third party investors into the city and would create 125 new jobs.       

The other locations where Travelodge is actively seeking hotel sites include:

Ardrossan, Aviemore, Galashiels, Kirkwall, Lerwick, Montrose and Pitlochry where Travelodge will build the town’s first branded hotel;  and East Kilbride, Dalkeith, Greenock, Hamilton/Motherwell, Loch Lomond, Newton Mearns, Oban and St Andrews where Travelodge will built its first hotel.  Travelodge is also looking for a second site in Falkirk. 

The below table outlines the status of the branded hotel market in the 16 target locations:

Pascal Bamford, Travelodge District Manager for West Scotland said: 

“We are delighted to open our 45^th Scottish Travelodge in Glasgow by the famous Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, which attracts patients and visitors from not just all corners of Scotland but the globe.  This is our seventh property in Glasgow but as the city is expected to lead economic growth in Scotland we are looking for a further five hotel sites in Glasgow to support demand as part of our bigger Scottish hotel expansion programme of 21 new hotel sites. Collectively this Scottish expansion programme would represent an investment of £125 million for third party investors and a job creation of 380 new jobs.”

Pascal Bamford, Travelodge District Manager for West Scotland continued:  “In Glasgow, we are actively looking for five hotel sites in: Glasgow (centre), Glasgow East M8, Glasgow SECC, Glasgow Silverburn, and Glasgow West End. Our Glasgow expansion programme would represent an investment of £40 million and would create 125 new jobs.”  

Glasgow Govan Travelodge is being managed by Shelby McKinnon who received over 600 applications from locals to join the new team. Shelby was overwhelmed by the high calibre of applications she received, that she recruited her strong team of 15 in just three days.

Shelby McKinnon, Hotel Manager, Glasgow Govan Travelodge said:  “Glasgow is growing from strength to strength and I am delighted to be managing the closet hotel to Glasgow Queen Elizabeth University hospital which is the UK’s and Europe’s biggest hospital campus. The hotel has got off to a flying start and we have had customers staying with us from all corners of the world. No two days are ever the same. I am very proud to have built a fantastic team who are as passionate as me about delivering great customer service and going the extra mile for our customers.”

In 2018, Travelodge opened a 54- room hotel with Bar Café in Inverness and a 74- room hotel with Bar Café in Stirling. These two hotels represent an investment of £11million for third party investors and created 48 new jobs. The company also upgraded its Edinburgh Central Travelodge to a TravelodgePLUS hotel – which is a new look budget chic hotel format. It is designed around the needs of the budget traveller who wants that little bit more style and choice.  TravelodgePLUS hotels offer a distinctive choice of rooms which include SuperRooms as well as a new style Bar Café with touches to make it easier to work and relax outside the room. 

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Notes to Editors

Glasgow Govan Travelodge has been styled in the company’s contemporary brand design and features family, double and accessible rooms.  To help ensure guests attain a good night sleep, all of the rooms include:

·         The company’s signature luxurious king size bed called the Travelodge Dreamer™ Bed which sits within a mood lighting surround with bedside USP ports and spacious shelves for charging devices. 

·         A sleep inducing décor colour palette to create a warm and cosy ambiance.

·         LED mood lighting.

·         A ‘Comfort Cooling’ system enabling guests to personalise their ideal room temperature.

·         Soundproof Italian acoustic doors.

In addition all rooms have a 32 inch Freeview TV and offer complementary tea & coffee making facilities and all family rooms include two individual beds for children.

Glasgow Govan Travelodge is located at:

Linthouse Drive, Govan,

Glasgow, G51 4RZ

About Travelodge

Founded in 1985, Travelodge is one of the UK’s leading hotel brands.  The hotel chain currently operates 578 Travelodge hotels in the UK, Spain and Ireland as of January 2019. Travelodge welcomes approximately 19 million customers every year and over 12,000 colleagues work across the business.