Budget hotels have a lot to offer the corporate sector, with the market awash with big-name budget brands offering an affordable stay where travellers know exactly what they’ll get.
These include city centre locations, affordable breakfasts, 12pm check-out, decent Wi-Fi, comfortable beds and 24-hour security. While the budget sector grew by targeting leisure travellers it has since learned to cater for the corporate world, with core comforts, as easyHotel Chief Executive Karim Malak explains: “Four-star mattresses, black-out curtains, sound proofing. You don’t pay for what you don’t use, like spas and swimming pools.
Low-cost hotels tend not to have atriums and pools and tend to be modular and new, so therefore are probably more sustainable. We use Thrust Carbon to see emissions and have several customers with carbon budgets; they can stay 10 times in a low CO2 hotel and six or seven times in one that’s higher.”
