A potential spanner: how would you restrict this to EAs? Is that legal? I doubt you can refuse service to people on the basis of what would be considerd an irrelevant characteristic. Analogy: could you have a hotel only for people of a certain race or sex?
There are protected characteristics, like race and gender, and the only way I can see EA/non-EA being covered is through beliefs. This first link only says religion specifically, but the second includes philosophical beliefs more generally:
I would guess that nonprofits that only serve people of a certain protected characteristics can also be legal, e.g. women’s shelters. Maybe it could fall under Services and public functions, Premises or Associations:
It’s pretty simple: just get EAs to move in and don’t advertise vacancies the rest of the time. That might sound sketchy, but I think it’s essentially what the old owners did—they let friends/long-time guests stay but didn’t rent out the rest of the rooms. It might not fly in, like, Tahiti, but Blackpool has an enormous glut of accomodation. The impression I got from Greg is that lots of hotel owners there are already restricting occupancy to friends/family; a de-facto restriction to EAs shouldn’t be a major problem, especially since (at least in the US) non-EAs are not a protected class.
Furthermore, if some random person really wants to stay there at inflated rates despite the complete lack of advertising, that would be a net benefit for the hotel, as Greg mentions in his post.
A potential spanner: how would you restrict this to EAs? Is that legal? I doubt you can refuse service to people on the basis of what would be considerd an irrelevant characteristic. Analogy: could you have a hotel only for people of a certain race or sex?
There are protected characteristics, like race and gender, and the only way I can see EA/non-EA being covered is through beliefs. This first link only says religion specifically, but the second includes philosophical beliefs more generally:
https://www.gov.uk/discrimination-your-rights
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/10
More here: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/contents
I would guess that nonprofits that only serve people of a certain protected characteristics can also be legal, e.g. women’s shelters. Maybe it could fall under Services and public functions, Premises or Associations:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/part/3
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/part/4
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/part/7
It’s pretty simple: just get EAs to move in and don’t advertise vacancies the rest of the time. That might sound sketchy, but I think it’s essentially what the old owners did—they let friends/long-time guests stay but didn’t rent out the rest of the rooms. It might not fly in, like, Tahiti, but Blackpool has an enormous glut of accomodation. The impression I got from Greg is that lots of hotel owners there are already restricting occupancy to friends/family; a de-facto restriction to EAs shouldn’t be a major problem, especially since (at least in the US) non-EAs are not a protected class.
Furthermore, if some random person really wants to stay there at inflated rates despite the complete lack of advertising, that would be a net benefit for the hotel, as Greg mentions in his post.