Premier Inn and Travelodge consolidated their hold on the budget hotel market during 2008.

Whitbread's Premier Inn led the table with more than 518 hotels and 36,000-plus bedrooms.

Travelodge, now owned by Dubai International Capital, was the second largest budget hotel group, with  more than 333 properties offering a combined 23,150 bedrooms.

The British Hospitality Association defines a budget hotel as a strongly-branded offer with generally compact rooms, a small food and beverage operation and limited facilities and services. Tariffs are typically less than £100 per room in the provinces and  around £120 in London.

These facts and figures are reported in British Hospitality: Trends and Statistics 2008, published by the British Hospitality Association.

The full report (which is free to BHA members) can be bought for £250 (for the printed version) or £200 (for a PDF file). Prices are progressively discounted as the year moves on. For enquiries or orders, phone 0207 404 7744 or contact bob.bacon@bha.org.uk.


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THE UK BUDGET HOTEL MARKET BY NUMBER OF ROOMS, 2001 and 2008

	Brand	Company	Hotels 2008	Hotels 2001	Rooms 2008	Rooms 2001
1	Premier Inn	Whitbread	518+	405	36,000+	23,300
2	Travelodge	Dubai International Capital	333+	215	23,150+	11,600
3	Express by Holiday Inn*	InterContinental  Hotels	120	63	12,589	5,900
4	Ibis	Accor	50	44	6,989	4,000
5	Jurys Inn	Quinlan Private, Oman Investment Fund	17	-	4,538
6	Innkeeper's Lodge	Mitchells & Butlers	91	31	2,650	-
7	Etap	Accor	12	2	1,732	69
8	Campanile	Louvre Hotels	19	15	1,588	1,100
9	Days Inn* (19 run by Welcome Break)	Wyndham Worldwide	25	14	1,420	900
10	Purplehotels (was Sleep Inn)	The Real Hotel Company	10	3	812	225
11	Ramada Encore*	Wyndham  Worldwide	6	-	715	-
12	Comfort Inn*	Choice Hotels International	13	31	649	2,050
13	Formule 1	Accor	5	8	405	590
14	Stop Inns	The Real Hotel Company	6	-	385	-
15	Future Inns	Future Inns	2	-	346	-
16	Metro Inns	Metro Inns	5	-	345	-
17	JDW Lodges	JD Wetherspoon	13	5	337	89
18	easyHotel*	easyGroup	4	-	240	-
19	Urban Lodge	Willow Street Hotels	1	-	205	-
20	Big Sleep	Big Sleep	3	-	191	-
21	Welcome Lodge	Welcome Break	2	9	182	569
22	Nitenite Cityrooms	Nitenite	1	-	104	-
23	Yotel	Yotel	2	-	90	-
24	Dolby Hotel	Dolby Hotels	1	2	64	130
25	Lodge on the Park	Shire Hotels	1	-	36	-
	TOTAL		1,292	849	97,701	50,397

Source: Wordsmith & Company
Figures up to 31 August 2008

* includes hotels franchised to another operator
† excludes the conversion of 21 Express by Holiday Inns from Mitchells & Butlers to Premier Inn, September 2008