Steven Hesketh

After 30+ years in the accommodation business, and now over a decade of running our own hotels, we see SAVVY Hotel Group evolving within the marketplace and believe it offers a real solution to the very real and current challenges many small to medium-sized hoteliers are facing. Officially launching this month, SAVVY Collective  has been a year in development and sees unbridled opportunity to support wider independent, non-branded hotels in numerous ways, with very much a “blank sheet of...

There is something slightly unhinged about taking on a festival that has been happening for 25 years (which wasn’t renewing for year 26 due to the current climate)   - and then pulling it all together in 10 weeks! That was basically my life for the last few weeks. Last weekend, we organised our first Food and Drink Festival: the Cheshire and North Wales Food and Drink Festival. And not just any event, but one with history behind it, a loyal audience, traders depending on it, and all the...

This week I went to Gail’s for a hot cross bun, heard they were the best so I had to go and try them. I went around 2:30pm for my lunch as I saw they were open until 6pm online . However arrived and asked for my hot cross bun and was told the kitchen had closed at 2pm. I was gutted. And yes, I know in the grand scheme of life this is not exactly a crisis. But it did get me thinking about something hospitality does all the time, often without even realising it: places are technically open,...