Journalists are heading off with hotel employees? (9)
I believe the answer is:
reporters
'journalists' is the definition.
(I know this)
'are heading off with hotel employees?' is the wordplay.
'heading off' means to remove the first letter.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'hotel employees?' becomes 'porters'.
'are' with its initial letter taken off is 're'.
're'+'porters'='REPORTERS'
(Other definitions for reporters that I've seen before include "News journalists" , "News gatherers for the media" , "They relay the news" .)