When Hospitality Meets Football: The Story of Tynecastle Park Hotel

22/10/2025 22 min Temporada 1 Episodio 5

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What happens when you build a boutique hotel inside a football stadium? In this episode of BOLD, RoomRaccoon founder Nadja Buckenberger sits down with Pauline Boyle, Hotel Operations Manager at Tynecastle Park Hotel — a 25-room property built within Edinburgh’s Tynecastle Park, home of Heart of Midlothian Football Club.Pauline shares how she transitioned from a decade at Hilton to helping open the UK’s first hotel within a live stadium, and how this bold idea helped balance the seasonality of football with year-round hospitality.Discover how the team:– Uses RoomRaccoon Upsell to enhance operations and boost revenue– Turned the club’s off-season into an opportunity for hotel growth– Transformed a windowless room into a fan favoriteThis is a story of creativity, adaptability, and redefining what it means to host in a truly unique space.👉 Subscribe to BOLD for more inspiring stories from hoteliers rewriting the rules of hospitality: https://roomraccoon.com/more/bold/#IndependentHoteliers #BOLDbyRoomRaccoon #HospitalityInnovation #TynecastleParkHotel #HeartofMidlothian #RoomRaccoon

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