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Former Shearings Leisure Group to expand hotel portfolio

Specialist Leisure Group (SLG), formerly Shearings Leisure Group, has indicated that it is looking to increase its hotel portfolio in the UK by sourcing management contracts with independent hotels.

Hotel Owner magazine reports (25 June) the group saying it aims to offer hoteliers the opportunity to improve hotel performance through SLG’s “experience and expertise” of operating 44 hotels around the country.

Shearings Leisure Group rebranded as Specialist Leisure Group in June 2018. At that time it owned and operated 47 hotels in the UK under its Country Living Hotels, Coast & Country Hotels and Bay Hotels brands.

Today, SLG is the parent company for seven travel brands: Shearings Holidays; National Holidays; Caledonian Travel; Bay Hotels; Coast and Country Hotels; Country Living Hotels, and UK Breakaways.

SLG also operates a number of Wallace Arnold Travel shops across Yorkshire, which sell holidays with SLG brands as well as other third-party companies.

www.specialistleisuregroup.com

www.hotelowner.co.uk

Stoke Rochford Hall sold to Talash Hotels

The lease on Stoke Rochford Hall, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, has been sold by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) to Talash Hotels Group for an undisclosed sum.

The Grade I listed, 96-bedroom hotel, set in a 28-acre estate, is a popular hotel with coach tour operators and group travel organisers, has been used by the NUT as a conference and training centre since 1978. The freehold of the Victorian property is owned by Stoke Rochford Estate.

Talash Hotels Group is based in Royal Leamington Spa. The acquisition of Stoke Rochford Hall brings the group’s portfolio to nine and includes the Quorn Country hotel in Quorn, Leicestershire, Risley Hall Hotel and Spa in Derbyshire, Chimney House Hotel near Crewe, Cheshire and the Huntly Arms Hotel in Aboyne, near Ballater, Scotland,

Talash Hotels is operated by the Kathuria family,

Stoke Rochford Hall is a member of the Irish-based Great National Hotels and Resorts marketing consortium.

For more information, go to www.talashhotels.com