Travelodge has announced its plans to expand in the North and open 16 new hotels, with Durham and South Shields selected as two key locations.
The announcement was made at Travelodge's official opening of its new hotel in Hexham and represents an intended investment of £160m in the North East and could create 400 new jobs. The group now has 23 hotels in the region, including two in Newcastle city centre, and the proposed expansion would boost Travelodge's portfolio to 39, though that extends outside of our region and includes Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire.
The 69-room Travelodge at Hexham is the group's first new-build budget-luxe hotel in the north of England and the first branded hotel in the Northumberland market town, which was named the happiest place to live in the UK last year. It has created 27 new jobs in the community and was opened by Travelodge chief operating officer Claire Good who returned to the North East after being born and raised in Newcastle.
