By Scott Wright
A LEADING Scottish hotel and golf resort is marketing rooms as workspaces for business people to make up for the shortfall in trade brought by coronavirus restrictions – and provide a solution for those who find it difficult to work from home.
Dalmahoy Hotel and Country Club, a major conference and events hotel, is now taking bookings for rooms to be used as substitute offices while the Scottish Government continues to advise people to work at home, if they can, to help suppress infection rates.
It is a trend which is growing across the industry. Nicola Taylor, chief executive of Chardon Hotels, told a Glasgow Chamber of Commerce webinar on Wednesday that her company was now selling day-let rooms to people who “can’t work at home but are not based in the office”.
Dalmahoy is located seven miles from Edinburgh, with the hotel, sports facilities and two golf courses set amid around 1,000 acres of countryside. Rachel King, senior events manager at Dalmahoy, said: “A number of business people and home office workers have been booking our smaller meeting rooms as a private office space for the day. Many of these professionals have either struggled to find peace and quiet at home because they don’t have a dedicated or suitable home office space, or they simply need a change of scenery. So we decided to open up our otherwise unoccupied hotel bedrooms – which already have perfect dedicated workspaces, including a desk and chair, and access to superfast broadband – merging the need for a peaceful and professional office with the convenience and amenities of a hotel.”
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