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As the General Election draws near, Christopher Rodrigues, chairman of VisitBritain, talks passionately to Janet Harmer about the support he hopes the new Government will provide the tourism industry in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
Posted: 22 January 2010 | 12:18
Bob Cotton has been has been named the chair of the newly created London Business Tourism Group (LBTG) by the Mayor of London’s office. Currently chief executive of the British Hospitality Association – a post he will step down from after the next election - Cotton will take the chair at the LBTG with immediate effect.
Posted: 21 January 2010 | 11:09
David Curtis-Brignell, co-chair of British Tourism Week, says the Government should pay more heed to the tourism industry to address job creation. "As we go head-first into another decade it is hard to imagine what we were looking forward to 10 years ago. No one predicted the effect that terrorism would have...
Posted: 15 January 2010 | 11:37
A new app for the iphone has been launched by UK tourism agency VisitBritain. The app, which is free to download, provides users with information about the locations where iconic British movies such as Braveheart and Notting Hill have been made as well as background information...
Posted: 04 January 2010 | 09:42
The industry can look back on 2009 with relief that predictions of widespread carnage had been exaggerated. Many businesses have proved resourceful in the face of economic meltdown, but the year hasn't been without its casualties, as Daniel Thomas reports.
Posted: 23 December 2009 | 12:24
Shearings Holidays believe that an increase of bookings in some UK regions by more than 95% may be partly be in response to the inspiration of recent TV programmes. “Programmes such as John Sergeant on the Tourist Trail, Martin Clunes’ Islands of Britain...
Posted: 17 December 2009 | 09:00
The British ‘staycation’ proved to be more than just an annoying catchphrase, with the number of holidays taken at home this summer up more than 20%, official figures revealed today. The latest UK Tourism Survey, from the Office for National Statistics, shows that trips taken by UK residents in England...
Posted: 14 December 2009 | 11:56
Cumbria's hospitality industry is counting the cost of last week's devastating floods, which forced hundreds of operators to abandon their businesses and is estimated to run into tens of millions of pounds-worth of damage. Parts of Cumbria were battered by unprecedented torrential downpours...
Posted: 27 November 2009 | 07:00
VisitEngland has announced a new Breakfast Award for its hotel and guest accommodation quality scheme members. The new award recognises hotels and B&Bs within the scheme that offer their guests a quality breakfast, service and hospitality over and above the normal expectations ...
Posted: 23 November 2009 | 07:00
New VisitEngland figures released today reveal that hospitality and leisure spend in the UK by disabled customers and their companions amounted to nearly £1b for the first half of the year. Its figures from the UK Tourism Survey show that overnight trips made by, or accompanied by, someone with a health ...
Posted: 20 November 2009 | 09:00
Despite a terrible year for hoteliers, there is now room for cautious optimism, delegates were told at the 2009 Annual Hotel Conference, hosted in Manchester by law firm Halliwells. Jonathan Langston, managing director of TRI Hospitality Consulting, said things were not as bad as had been predicted ...
Posted: 20 November 2009 | 08:00
Blenheim Palace has become the 2,000th member of the Green Tourism Business Scheme. The Oxfordshire stately home - the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill and the ancestral home of the Duke of Malborough - was awarded a silver grading by the tourism body in recognition ...
Posted: 17 November 2009 | 09:00
Almost three-quarters of UK consumers plan to take a holiday in England next year, research has revealed.
In the TNS poll of more than 1,000 UK residents, commissioned by tourist board VisitEngland, 72% said they are likely to take a break in England in 2010.
Posted: 11 November 2009 | 12:00
The Bingham hotel in Richmond scored a double whammy at last night’s BT Visit London Awards, winning gold in both the Small Hotel/B&B of the Year and Best Gastronomic Experience for its restaurant.
The Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane was awarded gold in the Large Hotel of the Year ...
Posted: 06 November 2009 | 16:08
Visit London has dismissed a report by the European Tour Operators Association (ETOA) claiming that the city may not see tourism benefits from hosting the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in 2012. The tourist board rejected the points laid out in the ETOA report...
Posted: 06 November 2009 | 09:00
VisitScotland has denied any wrongdoing by its chairman Peter Lederer after it emerged that the organisation paid nearly £234,000 to resort hotel Gleneagles where he was managing director. Newspaper the Herald Scotland has alleged that VisitScotland’s priorities ...
Posted: 03 November 2009 | 11:00
Quo Vadis, Hélène Darroze at the Connaught and Thomasina Miers’s Wahaca were among the winners at the inaugural London Restaurant Festival Awards, held at Soho House’s new Shoreditch restaurant Pizza East last night.
Posted: 14 October 2009 | 16:14
The inaugural London Restaurant Festival will open tonight, with a launch ceremony taking place at D&D London’s Quaglino’s restaurant. The festival, which runs from 8-13 October, has been created by the London Evening Standard’s food critic Fay Maschler and Simon Davis...
Posted: 07 October 2009 | 15:04
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Heston Blumenthal got by on three hours sleep a night; Rates bill for Dorchester set to double to £7.5m; Sports fan buys closed Altnaharra hotel; Hovis bakes jumbo bread-and-butter pudding and more...
Posted: 05 October 2009 | 10:18
A mystery bidder has paid £23,000 to dine in Gordon Ramsay’s pop-up restaurant in one of the capsules of the London Eye. Gordon Ramsay is one of six top London chefs who will, for one night, transform one of the capsules into a kitchen in a special event forming part of the inaugural...
Posted: 30 September 2009 | 17:28
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