Leonardo Hotels Marks New Business Travel Milestone With Gold and Silver Honours for Meetings and Hotel Excellence

Leonardo Hotels has achieved double recognition at the 2026 Business Travel Awards, securing GOLD in the Business Meetings Partner of the Year – Meetings & Events Venue category and SILVER in the Business Travel Partner of the Year – Hotel Brand category.

The hotel group earned recognition for its focus on practical innovation across the corporate meetings market. A key element was its Instant Meetings solution, designed to make booking smaller meetings faster and simpler by giving customers access to real-time availability and pricing. The solution was recognised for its growing adoption, ability to reduce booking time and potential to scale across a broad customer base. Leonardo Hotels’ continued investment in its meetings and events offering, together with its sustainability initiatives, also contributed to the recognition.

The Business Travel Awards recognise strong performance across the corporate travel industry, with categories covering leadership, customer service, innovation, partnership and business development. The awards highlight organisations that have delivered measurable progress and strengthened their offering to business travel customers.

Leonardo Hotels received SILVER for Business Travel Partner of the Year – Hotel Brand, a category focused on hotel groups that have demonstrated progress in their products and services while maintaining effective relationships with corporate travel buyers and customers during the previous 12 months.

Its GOLD award for Business Meetings Partner of the Year – Meetings & Events Venue places particular emphasis on performance within the meetings and events sector. The category recognises organisations that have advanced their venue offering through leadership, stronger partnerships, service development and solutions that respond to the changing requirements of business meeting organisers.

Together, the two awards underline Leonardo Hotels’ expanding position within the corporate travel and meetings market, particularly as technology, booking efficiency, sustainability and flexible meeting solutions become increasingly important considerations for business travel buyers and event planners.

Jason Carruthers, Managing Director of Leonardo Hotels UK & Ireland, said: “We are incredibly proud to have been recognised with both GOLD and SILVER at the 2026 Business Travel Awards. These awards reflect the strength of our offering and our commitment to continually enhancing our business travel and meetings proposition.

“To be recognised by the industry in this way is a fantastic achievement and a testament to the hard work and dedication of our teams across the business. We remain focused on investing in our people, properties and technology to further strengthen the experience we deliver for our customers.”

The recognition represents another important milestone for Leonardo Hotels, highlighting the continued development of its business travel and meetings offering. It also reflects the group’s wider focus on creating hotels that can serve the changing requirements of corporate guests, event organisers and professional travellers.

Continued investment in meeting facilities and business-focused services is helping strengthen the group’s position within the corporate hospitality market. By improving spaces designed for meetings, conferences and professional events, the hotel portfolio is becoming better equipped to support different types and sizes of business gatherings.

Alongside these developments, guest service remains a central part of the hospitality experience. Business travellers increasingly expect efficient services, comfortable accommodation and convenient facilities that allow them to combine work, meetings and overnight stays within the same property.

The latest recognition therefore reflects both investment and service delivery across the portfolio. As Leonardo Hotels continues developing its business travel and meetings capabilities, these improvements could help the group respond to growing demand for flexible, reliable and professionally managed hospitality experiences.