Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Greater Manchester's hospitality industry was just one of the many sectors to have felt the full force of the Covid-19 pandemic over the last year or so.
With entire venues forced to close for the majority of the pandemic, staff unsure of their futures as they were placed on furlough and the collapse of previously always reliable revenue streams, most hotels across the city battened down the hatches and hoped for the best.
With Manchester experiencing some of the highest number of days under the toughest lockdown restrictions, hotel managers scrambled to ensure their charges would still be around when the worst of the pandemic had finally passed.