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Accessible Hospitality Alliance (aha) has expanded the editorial offering on its website with the launch of a new Industry News section, broadening coverage to reflect the wider hospitality landscape alongside its established focus on accessible hospitality.
Since launch, the aha news platform has published stories highlighting how hospitality businesses, destinations, organisations, and individuals are progressing accessibility across the sector, creating a growing body of editorial focused on positive movement and practical change.
That commitment remains unchanged.
The addition of an Industry News section reflects a wider editorial view of how hospitality operates, recognising that accessibility does not exist separately from the commercial, operational, and strategic realities shaping the sector.
Hospitality leaders make decisions within a wider environment influenced by investment, design, workforce challenges, guest expectations, technology, foodservice innovation, and business performance. Bringing broader hospitality news into the aha platform creates greater context for readers, while reinforcing accessibility as part of mainstream hospitality conversation rather than a specialist side discussion.
Robin Sheppard, Chair, Accessible Hospitality Alliance, set out the alliance’s reasoning for enhancing editorial coverage and reach saying: “Accessible hospitality does not sit outside hospitality, it sits within it. If accessibility is to become a stronger commercial, cultural, and operational consideration across the sector, it needs to be visible within the wider conversations hospitality leaders are already having every day.
“Our accessible hospitality news coverage remains central to what we do. Adding Industry News strengthens the platform for readers by creating a broader editorial environment that reflects the industry as it actually operates.”
The new section will carry news from across hospitality, creating additional relevance for operator members, partner members, and people with lived experience of barriers to hospitality, as well as wider readers engaging with the aha platform.
By broadening editorial coverage, aha continues to develop as a platform where hospitality professionals can engage with both sector-wide developments and the growing movement shaping more accessible hospitality.
