Travelodge has opened the first branded hotel in Peterhead, the first of three hotel openings in Scotland this year for the budget chain.
It will also open a 74-room hotel in Stirling and a 54-room Travelodge in Inverness towards the end of 2017.
These will feature the next generation of the company’s ‘Travelodgical’ contemporary room design.
Peterhead Travelodge is a purpose-built 63-room hotel with on-site car-parking in the heart of the town centre on Chapel Street.
At the opening this week, the chain announced that Scotland remains a key growth area and that it has identified 21 new sites where it could potentially open a hotel.
From this target list, nine locations could get their first branded hotel – Ardrossan, Aviemore, Galashiels, Kirkwall, Lerwick, Loch Lomond, Montrose, Oban and Pitlochry.
Five locations from the target list could get their first Travelodge hotel – St Andrews, East Kilbride, Elgin, Greenock and Newton Mearns.
Travelodge is also looking to double its portfolio of hotels in Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow, with a further five hotels.
The group expects to open 15 new hotels across the UK in 2017, growing its network of hotels to 559 locations in the UK, Spain and Ireland.
