Employment in the hospitality industry will be boosted if Travelodge is successful in its ambitious expansion plans, the company has stated.
Over the next 12 years, the firm is planning to grow the size of the business by adding 500 UK hotels to its portfolio. This is likely to create 10,000 vacancies in the hospitality industry worldwide.
The company proposed 30 new sites for 2007, with up-and-coming openings in Falkirk, Edinburgh Haymarket and London Heathrow Terminal 5.
Out of the locations pencilled in to be completed by 2020, the firm states that 225 of these will be in the capital.
What's more, a quarter of the new employees will be those who have been unemployed for a long time.
Chief executive of Travelodge Grant Hearn noted the firm's commitment to workers in London.
"We have a collective responsibility as London employers to help the more disadvantaged people in our communities find work - this proposal is a crucial step toward achieving that goal and reducing unemployment in the capital," he remarked.
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