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'We’re more aware of guests' hidden needs': how a hotel owned by surgeons goes the extra mile

If any hotel can keep guests protected during a pandemic, it’s surely one where medics choose to stay. Who’s up for a socially distanced break in the Scottish capital?

Not many hotels have 26,000 potential mystery shoppers who can check everything is up to scratch. But then, Ten Hill Place in the heart of Edinburgh isn’t your average hotel. Run by Surgeons Quarter, which is owned by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the hotel provides accommodation to visiting members from 102 countries across the world – alongside non-medic guests.

All the hotel’s profits are poured back into the college to support its charitable aims, which largely centre on improving surgical standards worldwide. The college does this through training, pushing for advancements in surgery and by backing the work of the Global Surgery Foundation, which it founded in 2015 to tackle inequality in care across the globe.

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from Travel | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3buUFLi

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