The Oxfordshire-based company Travelodge operates more than 600 hotels across the United Kingdom and Ireland. It has gone on to expand its portfolio recently by acquiring five further hotels — including a site in the Costa del Sol tourism hotspot of Málaga.

All five of these new Travelodge hotels were bought from Louvre Hotels Group. What used to be the Campanile on Málaga’s Avenida de Velázquez has been renamed Travelodge Málaga Aeropuerto — three-star accommodation lying just two…