In 2022, accessible suites at the voco Manchester brought in an additional £132,000 over that 12-month period. This equates to £7,333 additional revenue per accessible room. 

Award winning and leading the way to being accessible to all guests, the hotel has 18 accessible guest rooms split into nine wheelchair accessible and nine ambulant accessible bedrooms. Two of the wheelchair accessible rooms have ceiling track hoists the first in Manchester. 

Reviewed by Emma, a wheel chair user. 

See more in this article. 

Many organisations & businesses are striving to become more “autism-friendly” by making adjustments to their existing services to make them more accessible to autistic people. 

AsIAm - Ireland's Autism charity has created an accreditation to help these businesses to achieve this. See more in the article above.   

This report looks at digital usage and online behaviours in Ireland. 

Findings include:

• Smartphone penetration is up 2% to 96% and a there has been a significant increase in Wearables up from 50% to 67%. 
• Apple and Samsung are now the joint most popular brand at 38% each, with Apple the most popular with the 18-34 year old group.
• The majority of adults (67%) wish they spent less time on devices, up significantly from 51% in the prior year's survey.
• Three quarter of respondents use their smartphone as soon as they wake up (up from 59% in the previous year). This is highest among 18-34 year olds (71%).  
• 65% of phone owners look at their phone within 15 minutes or less after waking up and 36% state that they look at their phone at least 50 times a day.

See more insights in this report. 

This report provides tips and tactics that hotels can utilise to target travellers and guests throughout their path to purchase journey, which have been broken down into five distinct stages:

1. The Inspiration Stage
2. The Planning Stage
3. The Booking Stage
4. The On-Site Experience Stage
5. The Post-Trip Stage

A combination of initiatives that promote a hotel’s offering and attracts guests, will ultimately increases bookings.

See more in the full report.