Whitbread announces plans for university hotel
Whitbread is to open a Travel Inn Metro on the Nottingham Trent University campus next year.
It wants to follow the opening with Travel Inn budget hotels on every city centre university campus in the UK.
Whitbread Hotel Company is investing £6m in building the Travel Inn on the university-owned Goldsmith Street site in Nottingham.
It will manage it under the terms of a turnover lease, which allows Nottingham Trent to take a share of the hotel's revenue in return for lease of the site.
It is the first deal of its kind in the country.
Construction work will start in January and the hotel will open for business next November.
It will create over 80 jobs.
"This is an exciting and unique partnership with Whitbread and will enable us to offer value for money accommodation for our long-distance students and conference delegates right in the heart of our city campus," said Ged O'Donaghue, director of estates and resources at Nottingham Trent University.
Whitbread has written to every UK university with a city centre campus, asking if it would be interested in a similar scheme to the Nottingham one.
By Lois Jones
