‘I feel like a dinosaur’: NI hotelier on changes at top of company and three reasons business is strong

Howard Hastings discusses the values of the business and the belief for some GB visitors that they need plug adapters in NI

Howard Hastings at the Grand Central Hotel in Belfast city centre (Photo by Kevin Scott for Belfast Telegraph)

James McNaney

No name is better known in the hotel trade here than Hastings.

The group owns six properties across Northern Ireland and it still has a member of the founding family at the helm.