UK Business Succession Index

Hotel / Accommodation succession in South West

1,921 of 3,661 hotel / accommodation companies in South West — 52.5% — have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 1st highest of 7 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured3,661
Director aged 60+1,921
Exposure rate52.5%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
3,661
Companies measured
1,921
Director 60+
962
Director 70+
52.5%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; hotel / accommodation nationally runs at 46.1%.

MeasureCompanies
Hotel / Accommodation companies in South West measured3,661
Oldest director aged 60 or over1,921
Oldest director aged 70 or over962

Of the 1,921 with a director over 60, 116 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Hotel / Accommodation in other regions

Region60+Rate
South East1,67951.5%
Northern Ireland26350.7%
Wales98550.5%
East of England99847.3%
Scotland1,44747.1%
Yorkshire & The Humber96045.4%
East Midlands55543.8%
London2,76343.7%

Other trades in South West

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services6,65843%
Lettings6,11444.9%
Retail4,23932%
Other Leisure3,12436%
Agriculture2,77756.9%
Property Development2,71648.2%
Investment2,68537.7%
Investment / Fund Management2,47340%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Hospitality & Leisure pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Hospitality & Leisure →

See all Hotel / Accommodation succession data or everything in South West.

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ExitRadar, "Hotel / Accommodation succession in South West", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/hosp-hotel/south-west/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.