04/07/2025
Friday team roundup – what a whirlwind! 🌪️✨
It’s been a full-on week across the IHM team, here’s a peek behind the scenes at what we’ve all been up to:
🩺 Katie Houghton balanced work and motherhood like a champ this week. Her son needed an emergency appendix removal and thanks to the exceptional Spanish healthcare system, she was able to keep working from the hospital while he awaited surgery. He’s on the mend, and we’re sending all the love!
🎤 George Sell was busy confirming top-tier speakers for this year’s Urban Living Festival before jetting off on holiday (cue obligatory feet-on-the-beach photo 🏖️)
🏎️ Brooke Byrne, our fantastic intern, had a memorable London moment this week witnessing the Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd helmet installation, a real “ICONIC” moment as our Gen Z put it sending me the pics over!
🏛️ Jo Cox, our Head of Projects, attended the double opening of x and y at Bloomsbury House, a beautiful addition to the The Bedford Estates Bloomsbury portfolio.
📰 Eloise Hanson, our Editor of Hospitality, represented IHM at the Newsweek: New Destinations Summit 2025, where global travel voices unpacked how shifting traveller behaviours and overtourism are reshaping the sector.
A standout quote?
👉 “Competition is inspiring”, a reminder that innovation comes from adapting and elevating ideas.
It’s a sentiment that echoes everything our team embodied this week — balancing, building, adapting, and delivering. Whether it’s managing from hospital waiting rooms, securing festival talent, being on-site at key openings, or drawing fresh editorial insight from the industry’s best — we’ve all found ways to move forward, together.
Here’s to a team that turns challenges into momentum. 💥