Hospitality Industry Can Feel The Love On Locked Down Valentine’s Day
New ‘Celebrating Valentine’s at Home’ report from CGA highlights major opportunities for hospitality businesses to secure couples’ at-home spend
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Highlights
Union And Sector Chiefs: Set Up Hospitality Task Force Across EU Institutions
The heads of 13 European hospitality and value chain representing bodies and trade unions have jointly called for the immediate setting up of a hospitality task force across
Read more...Hospitality Hardest Hit By Pandemic Job Losses
The hospitality and licensed on trade sector has been hit the hardest by pandemic related job losses according to statistics revealed by the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
Read more...Consumer Confidence Down, But Vaccines Signpost Road To Recovery
Consumer confidence about eating and drinking out has dropped by ten percentage points since October, CGA’s first 2021 Hospitality Consumer Forecast reveals
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British SME’s Call For Duty And On-Trade VAT Cut To Support Covid-19 Recovery
Britain’s best loved wine and spirit SMEs have joined forces to urge Rishi Sunak to cut wine and spirit duty and extend hospitality’s VAT cut to alcoholic drinks to help boost British business.
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Greene King Takes Anti-Racist Stance By Changing Names Of Four Pubs
Greene King is moving to rename four pubs in its estate where the existing names have racist connotations, and will shortly be holding community votes on new names.
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Christmas Sales Misery For Pubs And Restaurants
Britain’s managed pub and restaurant groups saw total sales drop by 72.6% over the festive season, in what should have been the sector’s busiest trading period of the year
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Hospitality Debate Shows Overwhelming Support For Sector In Parliament
Cross-party support for hospitality highlights importance of the sector and overwhelming backing for further measures
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New Data Reveals Hospitality Businesses Faced Up To £7K In Refunds In 2020!
New data from Paymentsense has discovered just how much small businesses have to fork out each year in refunds to customers.
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Hotels Offer To Become Vaccination Centres
The implementation of the third lockdown means many hotels have once again had to close their doors – some are still open to accommodate key workers – amid concerns about their long-term viability.
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New Lockdown Grants Worth £277 Million Are A Lifeline To Pubs
BBPA welcomes new lockdown grants, but says they must be delivered immediately to pubs
The British Beer & Pub Association has welcomed an announcement by the Chancellor that pub
Read more...Restaurant Job Losses Up 163% In 2020
Across the restaurant and casual dining sector more than 1,600 restaurants undertook their final service in 2020 with almost 30,000 staff losing their jobs as the economic impact of Covid-19 took its toll.
Read more...UKHospitality Chief Kate Nicholls made an OBE in New Year Honours
UKHospitality CEO Kate Nichols has been made an OBE for her services to the hospitality sector, in particular during the current pandemic which is brought…
Read more...Consumer Spending Declined 7.1% in 2020 Amidst “Turbulent Time” for Hospitality
Consumer spending declined 7.1 per cent year-on-year in 2020 – as coronavirus restrictions impacted many sectors, with high-street retailers and hospitality hardest hit. Yet there…
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Premier Inn Creates Father Christmas Master Key
VIP key created in response to parents’ questions On its way to the North Pole
For the first-time ever Premier Inn has created a master key to every single one of its hotels across the UK
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