Hospitality

The Government really can’t leave it any longer before it spells out its proposals for business rates for the beleaguered Retail and Hospitality sectors post April 1st says John Webber

Following respective statements strengthening COVID restrictions in England and Scotland, UKHospitality has called for a road map to recovery and has committed to assisting vaccine roll-out.

The night-time economy and hospitality sector “has lost all confidence in the government strategy against covid,” the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has said.

Scottish hospitality businesses have been devastated in 2020 and the immediate future looks equally bleak unless support from the Scottish Government is improved, UKHospitality Scotland has warned.

The UK’s hospitality sector has suffered lost sales of more than £53bn in 2020, with more losses to come from a collapse of Christmas trading—but a COVID-19 vaccine rollout provide

Businesses in the hospitality and licensed on trade brace themselves for more closures, with the possible exception of offering takeaway facilities as 8 more regions moved into tier 3.

Following the decision to plunge London into the strictest tier Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to reject a appeal by London’s mayor Sadiq Khan for a bailout for the capital’s hospitality industry.

Wetherspoon is offering hospitality operators the opportunity to display three posters it has produced giving an alternative view to the government over Covid-19 and lockdown.

The hospitality sector has accounted for a third of the total jobs lost since the pandemic first broke in March.

According to statistics from the Office of National Statistics (ONS)there were 819,000 fewer workers on UK company payrolls

UKHospitality has highlighted that restrictions on the country’s hospitality sector have effectively halved the UK’s economic growth, with the situation only likely to get worse unless the crippling measures are rethought.