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Hospitality agencies.

Hospitality marketing is the creative and media work that drives demand for hotels, restaurants, pubs, bars, events venues, and members clubs. It is distinct because catchment and footfall sit at the centre, OTAs and Google Business Profile dominate discovery, peak-trading cycles compress the calendar, and FSA rating rules plus the Portman Group code constrain the work.

At a glance
  • 177 UK agencies with hospitality experience
  • Across 34 UK locations
  • Reviewed 18 May 2026
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First Place SEO
Specialist·London·2-10 Employees·Verified

First Place SEO helps local businesses in London grow fast. We offer SEO services, Google Ads management, and website help to get you more customers. Our team knows how to get your business on the first page of Google in London. We use proven methods so you get more calls, leads, and sales. If you want to rank higher and beat your competition in London, First Place SEO is ready to help. Get found

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Softhunters UK
Independent·Birmingham·201-500 Employees·Verified

Softhunters delivers innovative IT solutions that drive digital transformation, helping businesses stay ahead through smart automation, streamlined operations, and cutting-edge technology. Our recent projects showcase our commitment to excellence, blending strategy with technology to unlock growth and success in the digital age.

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Serotonin
Independent·Manchester·11-50 Employees·Verified

Serotonin is the performance marketing agency for brands that want to move faster and grow smarter. Founded by Dom Carter and Clair Heaviside, we bring over a decade of experience scaling brands across the UK, Europe and the US. We skip the jargon, the fluff, and the vanity metrics. What we deliver is clarity, pace and a commercial mindset-from forecasting and strategy through to media buyin

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Energy PR
Independent·Gloucester·11-50 Employees·Verified

Award-winning PR agency for B2B & B2C brands across the UK and beyond. In-sector PR expertise. Out-of-sector creativity. Combined to deliver standout results. We've got 30 years of PR expertise across every major sector. HR to home & garden. Environment to energy. We know each industry as well as a sector-specialist PR agency. Maybe better. But where specialist agencies only know their industry, w

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Clifton Web Design
Independent·Bristol·2-10 Employees·Verified

Clifton Web Design, a Bristol-based web design firm in the UK, is renowned for its innovative and tailored approach. Offering customised web design, logo creation, branding, and all-inclusive digital solutions, we serve a diverse range of clients - from startups and businesses to charities and independent traders - both locally and globally. Boasting 18 years of industry experience and over 220 un

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SEO Impact
Independent·Belfast·2-10 Employees·Verified

SEO Impact is a Northern Ireland-based SEO and web design agency helping small and growing businesses improve their visibility, enquiries, and sales. We specialise in SEO audits, technical SEO, local SEO, WordPress websites, WooCommerce websites, Shopify SEO, and conversion-focused website improvements.

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Frost Creative
Independent·Southampton·11-50 Employees·Verified

Searching for a result-oriented branding + creative consultancy? We are an award-winning, no-nonsense strategic and creative consultancy transforming what makes you unique into rocket fuel for growth. Our expertise crosses strategy, design, digital, print and the physical environment. Everywhere your audience goes and everywhere you need to be.

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J2X
Independent·London·2-10 Employees·Verified

The digital results agency with a complete focus on making your online activity work harder than ever before. If the name rings a bell, that's because we're the sibling of creative agency J2. We were born in a world of big ideas but have evolved an unshakeable focus on digital results. From growing brands to driving sales, every campaign is geared to improve the bottom line. We optimise PPC, Paid

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Rubber Duckers
Independent·Winchester·2-10 Employees·Verified

Rubber Duckers is a culture-first creative agency founded in Hampshire, working with clients across the UK and internationally. We shape branding, websites, photography and video around the people behind each business, so the brand sounds like the founders, team and customers who actually know it.

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Bidmark
Independent·Leeds·2-10 Employees·Verified

Our digital marketing agency specialise in the strategy and delivery of a range of performance focused digital marketing services such as SEO, PPC, Paid Social and Display campaigns. Working closely with our clients ensuring everything is measured and tracked, we continue to deliver the results that matter

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Double W Worldwide
Independent·London·2-10 Employees·Verified

We’re the brains behind the brands, without the bloat. No neon signs. No ping-pong tables. No senior team pitching you just to hand it over to the juniors. Just bold ideas, brutal honesty, and big-brand brains without the big agency ego.

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Good n Proper
Independent·Leeds·2-10 Employees·Verified

Good n Proper is a digital marketing agency based in Leeds, specialising in paid social, PPC, content marketing, organic social media marketing, and tracking and attribution. We work with brands across all sectors, with particular experience in food, drink and hospitality marketing. Our approach is the tried and tested one - research, strategy, then channels. No buzzwords, no gurus, no flavour-of-

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HotelsSEO
Network·Edinburgh·2-10 Employees·Verified

Performance Marketing for Hotels

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James Hubbard Consulting
Independent·Brighton·2-10 Employees·Verified

Freelance SEO consultant based in Brighton, providing insightful website and SEO audits for businesses looking to improve their visibility in traditional search results and in AI-generated answers. Services include strategic roadmaps, content planning and delivery, web development, technical SEO, and ongoing consultancy services.

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Leads Brain LTD
Specialist·Manchester·51-200 Employees·Verified

Boost your local visibility with Google Business Profile optimization, SEO for small businesses, and responsive website development. We help businesses grow online with affordable SEO services, faster websites, and better Google rankings that bring in more local traffic and real leads.

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Leopard Co
Independent·Birmingham·11-50 Employees·Verified

We are Leopard Co! A new agency with a 20-year history created through two award-winning marketing communications consultancies - Big Cat and spottydog communications - joining forces. Now together, we offer clients a full service marketing agency with specialist skills across the marketing communications mix.

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Lionheart Marketing
Independent·Reading·11-50 Employees·Verified

Lionheart Marketing is a founder led, boutique growth agency based in Redcar, North East England, helping ambitious brands across the UK grow through Shopify, SEO, Paid Media, CRO, and CRM. We work with businesses of all sizes, with clients spanning from London, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Middlesbrough, and beyond. Our focus is simple: helping brands increase visibility, generate more leads and sales, and maximise the return from their marketing investment. Common challenges we help clients solve include: Poor Google rankings and limited online visibility Low website conversion rates Wasted paid media spend and poor ROAS Underperforming eCommerce websites Customer retention and CRM challenges Shopify development, migrations, and ongoing support Unlike traditional agencies, we take a hands on, strategic approach, working closely with clients to understand their commercial objectives and build growth strategies that deliver measurable results. Whether you're looking to improve your search presence, scale your Shopify store, or generate more revenue from your existing traffic, we're here to help.

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Modal Digital
Independent·Manchester·11-50 Employees·Verified

Modal® is a forward-thinking, Manchester-based web design and branding agency committed to transforming the way ambitious brands connect with their audiences online. We use industry-leading coding techniques and strategic brand storytelling to help you achieve lasting impact and measurable results.

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SEO Results Ltd
Specialist·Birmingham·51-200 Employees·Verified

Founded in 2011, our team of SEO experts have decades of experience in helping ambitious brands dominate Google. As an SEO only agency, we live and breathe all things SEO; from algorithms to analytics, and from rankings to ROI, we take care of it all. Unlike many digital marketing companies who provide SEO alongside other activities, our sole focus is organic SEO. This is why many marketing agenci

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Sharkfold Ltd
Independent·London·11-50 Employees·Verified

Marketing Agency in London To help your business grow, Sharkfold digital marketing company makes bold decisions. We provide tailored tactics to reach your target audience and achieve your business goals. Increase brand visibility, leads, and sales with our services. We strive to serve our clients well. We'll learn about your business and goals and utilize our knowledge to help you succeed. SEO, PP

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Smoking Gun PR
Independent·Manchester·51-200 Employees·Verified

Smoking Gun is the home of ingenious comms. We are ambitious for our clients; bold on their behalf. We discover and communicate their stories to the right audiences, enhancing their reputations, driving organisational change and building their brands. Our progressive approach to PR, ruthlessly focused on business impact, drives an irresistible momentum. Momentum powered by ingenious ideas. Ideas u

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Spotty Media
Independent·Durham·2-10 Employees·Verified

Spotty Media is a specialist hospitality digital marketing agency helping restaurants, bars, hotels, venues and food and drink brands grow through social media, PR, content, websites, paid social, email marketing and consultancy.

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Tom Wilson Digital
Specialist·London·2-10 Employees·Verified

AI automation consultancy building custom tools, workflow automations, and AI agents for businesses across the UK, US, and Europe.

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YellowInk Digital
Independent·London·2-10 Employees·Verified

YellowInk is an SEO and digital marketing agency based in the United Kingdom (UK), dedicated to helping startups and small businesses grow online. We offer tailored services including SEO, content marketing, PPC, email marketing, social media management, social media advertising, website design & development, and LinkedIn marketing. Our focus is on delivering affordable, effective strategies that

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Editor's note
Hospitality is one of the more clearly-shaped industry verticals in the UK agency market, with 168 agencies in this index positioning here. The category splits into five working shapes: hotel specialists working independents and small groups on direct-booking and OTA-mix programmes; restaurant marketing shops covering chains and indies on local SEO, social, and GBP; pub-trade and on-trade activation agencies serving brewers and managed-pub operators; brand and PR shops working members clubs, private dining, and events venues; and F&B-attached integrated agencies that take hospitality clients alongside drinks and grocery work. Toast, Fenti, Clockwork Marketing, SideDish, Snack London, HoReCa, MeMo, and Propeller sit at the named-specialist end; The Social Shepherd and the larger integrated agencies hold the chain hotel and managed-pub group work. What makes the category distinct is the geography of demand. Hospitality is hyper-local: a venue lives or dies by a 1 to 5 mile catchment, weekday footfall, and the position it holds on the Google Map Pack. Distribution is OTA-heavy on the hotel side, with Booking.com and Expedia taking 15-30% commission on every reservation, and 63% of independent-hotel bookings flowing through OTAs in 2025 per Cloudbeds' State of Independent Hotels. Regulation is layered: the FSA's Food Hygiene Rating Scheme governs the rating sticker (mandatory display in Wales since 2013 and Northern Ireland since 2016, voluntary in England with around 69% display compliance), the Portman Group's sixth-edition code on naming, packaging, and promotion of alcoholic drinks covers all alcohol marketing, and the ASA's CAP code polices price transparency on rooms, covers, and packages. The shifts in 2025 and 2026 are stark. AI Overviews and Apple Maps have rerouted the "best restaurant in [town]" and "hotels near [station]" queries that hospitality used to win on traditional SEO, and 72% of AI citations come from pages outside the top three organic results. The ASA upheld bans on Accor, Travelodge, Hilton, and Booking.com hotel ads on 19 November 2025 for misleading "from" pricing, with parallel CMA enforcement under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 raising the stakes again. The BBPA projects 378 pub closures in 2025 (one every day), and UKHospitality reports around 89,000 to 100,000 jobs lost across the sector since the October 2024 Autumn Budget. On the upside, low-and-no beer hit 200 million pints in 2025 (around 3% of the UK beer market, up 20% year-on-year), Christmas 2024 trading was the strongest the CGA RSM tracker had recorded since May 2023, and UK hotel ADR rose 1.35% to £191.55 in 2025 on SiteMinder data.
Common briefs
Hotel direct-booking growth and OTA-mix rebalancingRestaurant local SEO, Google Business Profile, and Map Pack visibilityPub-trade activation across managed estate and free tradeChristmas, Valentine's, and summer peak-trading campaignsMembers club, private dining, and events-venue brand buildReview management, reputation, and crisis-response programmesAI Overviews and answer-engine citation for hospitality search
Regulatory landscape
FSA · ASA · Portman · ICO
rating display, price transparency, and alcohol promotion gate the work

Four regulators set the boundary. The Food Standards Agency runs the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme: display of the 0-to-5 rating sticker is mandatory in Wales (since November 2013) and Northern Ireland (since October 2016) and voluntary in England, where around 69% of businesses display versus 92% in Wales and 91% in Northern Ireland. The Advertising Standards Authority enforces the CAP code on price transparency: on 19 November 2025 it upheld rulings against Accor (ibis budget Birmingham), Travelodge, Hilton, and Booking.com for misleading "from" pricing where only a small proportion of rooms were available at the headline rate. Compulsory taxes, service charges, and fees that all guests must pay must be included in any advertised price. The Portman Group's sixth-edition Code of Practice on the Naming, Packaging and Promotion of Alcoholic Drinks (in force since 1 March 2019, amended 2023) sits across all alcohol marketing in the UK with 12 rules covering naming, packaging, point-of-sale, branded merchandise, and promotional activity; particular appeal to under-18s and encouragement of immoderate consumption are the rules most often breached. UK GDPR and PECR sit underneath all guest-data work, with the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 lifting maximum PECR fines to £17.5 million or 4% of global turnover.

Specialist signals
5 signals
of real hospitality experience
  • · GBP and Apple Maps fluency: knows how to win the Map Pack, manage review velocity, and brief photography that ranks alongside menu-level structured data
  • · OTA-versus-direct revenue-management literacy: can talk through commission tiers, BAR parity, metasearch bidding (Google Hotel Ads, Trivago, Kayak), and the actual maths of shifting share to direct
  • · Portman-code experience on alcohol clients: knows the under-18-appeal rule, the immoderate-consumption rule, and how to brief POS, packaging, and promo copy that will clear
  • · Peak-trading planning discipline: Christmas, Mother's Day, Valentine's, summer wedding season, and August city slumps all show up in their planning calendar, not as afterthoughts
  • · Local SEO and review-platform reputation playbook: TripAdvisor, OpenTable, Google reviews, and the on-trade press (Morning Advertiser, Big Hospitality, The Caterer) are named with case-study evidence
Sector watch-outs
5 to watch
in any hospitality pitch
  • · Hotel pitch with no view on the November 2025 ASA "from-pricing" rulings, no plan for how rate display will satisfy CAP, and no acknowledgement of CMA enforcement under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024
  • · Restaurant brief answered entirely with Meta and TikTok plans, no GBP audit, no Map Pack strategy, no review-management workflow, and no mention of AI Overviews citation strategy
  • · Alcohol or pub work shown with no Portman code awareness, copy that flirts with under-18 appeal or immoderate-consumption tropes, and no view on how the campaign would clear the Portman Independent Complaints Panel
  • · Channel mix ignores OTA-versus-direct economics: no commission analysis, no metasearch view, no plan for the loyalty hook or rate-fence that justifies a direct-booking premium
  • · Crisis playbook absent: no view on how to respond to a TripAdvisor pile-on, a viral video, a 1-star hygiene rating, or a food-safety incident, despite this being a near-monthly reality in the trade
Frequently asked

What brands ask about agencies for hospitality.

5 questions our editors get most often, answered honestly. No agency-marketing speak.

Curated by humans

Specialist hospitality retainers cluster in three bands. A single independent restaurant or pub on a focused brief (GBP, local SEO, social, light paid) typically sits at £1,500 to £4,000 a month with an agency, with freelancers undercutting that on smaller scopes. A multi-site restaurant group, boutique hotel, or pub operator running integrated paid, social, PR, content, and CRM lands at £4,000 to £12,000 a month. Chain hotel, managed-pub estate, and members club work runs £12,000 to £40,000 a month for integrated programmes, plus separate spend on photography, video, paid media, and metasearch bidding. A direct-booking website build with booking-engine integration is typically scoped separately at £15,000 to £80,000. Christmas campaigns and venue-launch projects are usually fixed-fee at £5,000 to £50,000 depending on scale and media.