Umi hotels, the award-winning independent hotel brand is growing internationally and franchise opportunities are now available. In 2007, Caterer & Hotelkeeper Magazine reported on research findings* that over the next twenty years the budget hotel sector will experience its biggest growth period, with the prediction that in 2027 the sector will represent a 26.8% share [...]

London businessman Steve Lowy has been shortlisted in the Entrepreneur of the Year category in the Nectar Business Small Business Awards 2011, a nationwide competition to be judged by businesswoman Karren Brady, who is currently starring in hit TV show The Apprentice. Steve, who set up his company, umi Hotels in 2007, is now in [...]

Students from the University of The Arts, London and the London College of Fashion were recently given a unique opportunity to showcase their design skills within the corporate world.  The competition winners have just been announced and their designs will become the new uniform for umi hotels’ staff in Brighton, London and Moscow. The brief [...]

The International Student Travel Confederation (ISTC) has just completed its pilot “Skills Exchange Initiative”, that provided a hospitality industry professional for ten days of free mentoring, to help Rosy Guesthouse in Cambodia become commercially sustainable.  John Firell MIH believes more hospitality businesses need to take their social responsibilities the extra mile and get involved in [...]

In the first project of its kind, the International Student Travel Confederation (ISTC) is working with umi hotels to give Rosy Guesthouse in Cambodia a strong brand and web presence with every minute of design, consultation and marketing, donated free of charge. Steve Lowy, Founder of the award-winning budget hotel group, umi hotels, volunteered to [...]