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Construction Jobs created as Budget Hotel Expands Chain

19/11/2009

Pioneering budget hotel Travelodge is investing £47m to build 10 new hotels throughout the UK which will add a further 857 rooms to their existing 27,000 room portfolio across 385 hotels.

Up to 250 new jobs will be created for the new sites in Edinburgh, High Wycombe, Ipswich, Llanelli, London, Manchester, Newbury, Newcastle Under Lyme and Wadebridge with all entry level staff being recruited through its employment partner, Job Centre Plus.

Travelodge plans to grow its estate to 70,000 rooms across 1,000 hotels by 2020 and has recently had planning permission granted to increase its current Covent Garden hotel in London by 249 rooms making it the chains largest hotel. The expansion plans are creating 35 new jobs plus up to 100 construction jobs.

Since 2007 over 90% of staff for all new London hotels have been recruited from the local unemployed with 67% coming from the Job Centre’s priority groups.

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