Accor is adding five hotels to its UK portfolio - three in London and two in Edinburgh. They include the 202-room Novotel Brentford (pictured) opening this year. Mercure London Heathrow opens in the spring 2015 with 184 bedrooms. Ibis Styles Kensington also opens next year with 115 bedrooms. In Edinburgh the 161-bedroom Ibis Budget Edinburgh Park and the 103-bedroom Ibis Styles St Andrew Square will be arriving shortly.

In addition the group has announced a new-build Novotel at Canary Wharf in London opening in 2016. Two Adagios, the group’s aparthotel brand, will also be opening in London. The first, in 2016 with 217 apartments follows conversion of Black Lion House, an office building in Whitechapel Road. Adagio London Stratford is scheduled to open two years later in 2018.