Ashworth Treasure is pleased to be launching their new hotel blog

At hotels there is always something happening which is why they’re so interesting. Along with the challenging accountancy and taxation issues comes the funny stories and unique experiences. We relish the opportunity to share some or our thoughts and insights as we go about our work as chartered accountants and tax advisers in the hotel sector.

So here at Ashworth Treasure we support a number of hotels, large and small, but each with their own issues around occupancy, cost of goods and services, competitive advantage, staffing, cash, reliable integrated suppliers and so on. Over time we’ve come to recognise the way these issues impact on profitability and the experience of two of our partners as hotel owners in the past has been invaluable in helping us develop strong expertise in this area.

Many see hotels as a home from home, especially when we’re on holiday or frequent business travellers. The hotel, and in particular the room we are allocated can make or break the experience. What about the hotel in Sweden which is transitory and is only there certain times of the year – has no central heating and you sleep, quite literally on a block of ice – well apparently it’s now the ‘trendiest way to spend the winter’ according to our friends at the blog Interesting Thing of the Day!! (http://itotd.com/articles/418/ice-hotels/)

Not sure it’ll ever catch on in Lancashire – but hey, another winter like this last one and who knows what our next hotel sector client might look like!