Yes, you're right. Lots of new rooms, all clamouring for the same market and fresh new hotels able to discount with a better product than the likes of the DT. Edinburgh is doing well because of tourism, I think the next few months will be interesting on what is normally a quiet time on that front.

Glasgow was never touristic like Edinburgh, so there was a lot of corporate and events business. That's still not back. You can see across the city its struggling a bit. Walk up Sauchiehall Street and there's a lot of closures. I noticed Diesel on Buchanan Street is gone and vacant. It used to be GLA was more of a shopping city, but does it really lose out compared to EDI?

London is its own world, "what pandemic?" is what I noticed there.

Is it even known if Hilton is to continue with Glasgow? Was the lease extended? Bear in mind that as per the management contract the hotel is returned to a good state before its handed back or its extended.

Post-pandemic its obvious to me that Hilton have no interest in management contracts. Franchising is the way forward.

Freetotravel makes a good point about the provinces. It wasn't pax guzzling down the £3 tanker that kept it afloat, but the corp business and NCL rates are super depressed. As Hilton neglect their hotels so badly by way of crappy management contracts they're in an even worse position to bounce back with a tired product.

It's similar with the airlines, with many C pax now being leisure, they actually expect a decent product (shock horror fact when its not OPM).