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Top 25 Hotel chains based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 955 hotel chains headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 80,991 professional contacts across them, including 16,604 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers hotel chains headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 15, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest hotel chains based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 34,016 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IHG Hotels & Resorts [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is a global hospitality company, with a purpose to provide True Hospitality for Good.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,618 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our Company: In 1985, Travelodge became the UK's first budget hotel brand when it opened its first hotel at Barton-under-Needwood.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,704 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IHG Hotels & Resorts is a global hospitality company, with a purpose to provide True Hospitality for Good.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,398 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A collection of exquisite hotels & resorts, with breathtaking destinations across the UK & Spain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 929 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “In much more than a name, Rocco Forte Hotels is the #ForteFamily.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 885 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ennismore is a creative hospitality company with a global collective of entrepreneurial and founder-built brands with purpose at their heart.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 801 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Corinthia began as a family business, and while it has grown into something rather different today, we still retain all the precious values of a family: caring for one another and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 638 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Britannia Hotels is the leading privately owned hotel group in the UK, operating nationwide with 53 hotels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 566 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2007, Dorchester Collection is the mark of distinction reserved for the world’s most extraordinary hotels and residences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 542 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Clermont Hotel Group is a pioneering hotel owner-operator with a portfolio which comprises bedrooms and 120+ meeting and event spaces across such iconic brands as The Clermont…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 537 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With 23 properties in sought-after locations globally, YOTEL exists to deliver elevated essentials with personality - so guests sleep better, move faster and enjoy the destination…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 526 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hotel du Vin provide a range of luxury and boutique hotels in 19 landmark locations around the United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 524 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Malmaison, the iconic lifestyle hotel brand, in 18 locations across the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 501 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “An upscale and upper upscale, contemporary hotel brand featuring individually designed hotels in vibrant city centre locations and select resort destinations, including Amsterdam…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 480 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 479 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Apex Hotels is a collection of nine hotels across the UK, rooted in Scotland and built on the belief that a genuinely warm welcome makes all the difference.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 475 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A legacy of service, defined by our people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 445 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Formed in 2001, we are a leading international hotel management company with over 55 hotels in our portfolio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 351 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established over 30 years ago, Sarova Hotels has extensive experience in the hospitality industry in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 339 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hey, we're Atlas Hotels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 329 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For 119 years, the five-star Ritz London hotel has set the standard for excellence in hospitality, perfectly located in the heart of London’s Piccadilly and Mayfair.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 320 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creating stories of distinction with a heritage of over 200 years of hospitality, Maybourne operates Claridge’s, The Connaught, The Berkeley, The Emory in London as well as The…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 274 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotels is a collection of luxury hotels in central London and Heathrow and Manchester.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 265 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “easyHotel is a European hotel brand redefining great‑value stays.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 263 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Z Hotels is a boutique hotel group known for its stylish and compact accommodations in prime city-centre locations across the United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: hotel chains. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names hotel chains.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of hotel chains, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name hotel chains. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Hotel chains based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 955 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among hotel chains, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “hotel chains”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names hotel chains), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among hotel chains, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 16,604 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 15, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Hotel chains by metro
- Hotel chains in London216
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names hotel chains, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many hotel chains are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 955 hotel chains headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
IHG Hotels & Resorts, headquartered in Windsor, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most hotel chains?
London leads with 216 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (21) and Blackpool (18).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 16,604 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 955 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 15, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.