Overview

Headquartered in Edinburgh, Portland has a portfolio of five hotels across Scotland’s major cities and is currently structured as a Management Company providing services on an arm’s length basis to those properties, all currently owned by the group

Founded in 2001, we have a track record of turning round under performing hotels

Portland employs around 300 staff and whilst pragmatic and grounded, remains ambitious to grow

All resources and systems have been designed with scalability in mind
 

Success Stories

Acquired a 111 bedroom Hotel in Edinburgh with modest conference , events and leisure facilities in 2004; the property suffered greatly from under investment and had lost its direction in the market. We inaugurated an ambitious programme of investment throughout the Hotel in every area, both Front and Back of House. In conjunction with this activity, we re-positioned the Hotel in its marketplace by  judicious use of ecommerce, and today trades way ahead of the competitor set, boasting an annual occupancy of….With a new business strategy, new Team and by adopting the Portland System, the Hotel has successfully and consistently delivered enviable returns year on year  

In 2007 we identified an underperforming asset in Glasgow’s West End which offered 137 bedrooms, some leisure, and a mixed range of conference and meeting facilities. Given the state of disrepair, we closed the Hotel, invested just under £4million pounds in renovations, plant and refurbishment. We reopened three months later under the Best Western brand, but have subsequently de branded the property, re defined the business mix, marketed the Hotel as an independent, and have traded way beyond the market expectation of a property in this location.  We typically exceed the performance of  our competitive set in occ and revpar  on a monthly basis