Travel & Leisure
PPHE Hotel Group is an international hospitality and property group operating upscale and lifestyle hotels, principally under the Park Plaza, art'otel and Arena brands. It combines hotel operations with ownership of a substantial property portfolio.
Hotel ownership, development and operation, food and beverage, property investment and development, management agreements and operation of Park Plaza, art'otel and Arena Hospitality properties.
London is the largest market, alongside the Netherlands, Germany, Croatia and other European leisure and business-travel destinations.
Occupancy, room rates, RevPAR, tourism and business travel, new hotel openings, property values, operational gearing and returns from recently completed developments.
Travel downturns, economic weakness, labour and utility costs, high capital requirements, property valuations, interest rates, geopolitical disruption and execution risk on new developments.
29 April 2026: first-quarter revenue rose 8% to £83.8m, with like-for-like revenue up 8.2% and occupancy improving to 70.7%. The Group also acquired the freehold of Park Plaza London Waterloo in March; H1 2026 results are due on 27 August and should show how recent openings and investments are feeding through.
PPHE normally pays twice yearly and targets distributions of around 30% of adjusted EPRA earnings. The 2025 total dividend was 39p per share; the 22p final dividend went ex-dividend on 23 April 2026 and was paid on 29 May.
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