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REGAL Hotel Group's healthy results last week helped give it the best share price perfomance of all the shares featured above.

During the week, its shares leapt over 13%. But this still leaves them valued at a 1p discount to the price paid by investors taking up the rights issue three months ago.

Hotel companies generally had a good week: Stakis in particular stood out, with a rise of over 6%.

The Rank Organisation, which has sold most of its hotels, saw its share price tumble almost 1%. The company had been linked to a possible takeover of David Lloyd Leisure, a chain of fitness clubs and tennis centres run by the former tennis professional.

But Whitbread, whose own share price stood still last week, was this week revealed as the purchaser. The Scottish & Newcastle takeover of Courage's breweries is thought to have given Whitbread added encouragement to expand its other leisure interests.