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More than 400 London restaurants have signed up for the inaugural London Restaurant Festival that takes place in October and there is still time to register.
Created by the London Evening Standard’s food critic Fay Maschler and Simon Davis, who together run restaurant consultancy ...
Posted: 08 June 2009 | 14:43
VisitBritain is launching a PR initiative to push the UK as a good-value destination for overseas holidaymakers. The association is bringing 67 international travel writers together for a trip around the UK this month, starting with a tour of Buckingham Palace led by the Duke of Edinburgh.
Posted: 02 June 2009 | 14:43
Pubs are being urged to become unofficial tourist information centres to take advantage of the expected boom in domestic tourism this summer. Tourism body VisitEngland has launched a campaign, called Inn England, which calls on pubs to position themselves as the starting point ...
Posted: 28 May 2009 | 07:30
Having hung on by his fingertips last year after the disastrous Tchenguiz-gate, the game was finally up for Tim Clarke, chief executive of pub group Mitchells & Butlers, this week when another cunning debt swap turned out to be no where near as clever as a fox that has been to the university of cunningness.
Posted: 22 May 2009 | 15:45
The commercial director of Visit London, David Hornby, has left the organisation after six years to work with AEG Europe, which owns London's O2 venue. The departure follows that of former chief executive James Bidwell who left the tourism body in ...
Posted: 18 May 2009 | 16:23
Hopes that the weak pound will boost domestic tourism have yet to materialise with visits from foreign tourists to the UK in the first three months of 2009 falling 13% compared to the same period last year. Foreign residents made 6.28m visits to the UK ...
Posted: 14 May 2009 | 15:47
Staff across the hotel, restaurant and leisure industry in Blackpool are to undertake a tourism training course that aims to improve customer service levels.
Workers in customer-facing jobs across the entire seaside destination of Blackpool are taking up ...
Posted: 12 May 2009 | 11:47
VisitBritain has promoted deputy chief executive Sandie Dawe to chief executive with immediate effect.
Dawe replaces Tom Wright who left the tourism body earlier this year to join a charity and takes the reigns from VisitBritain chairman Christopher Rodrigues ...
Posted: 11 May 2009 | 17:41
Don't Panic! Sage advice featured in both Dad's Army and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and now by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) in an attempt to diffuse the hysteria rapidly building around swine flu.
Posted: 01 May 2009 | 15:52
Nigel Seddon, owner of the Elgin hotel in Blackpool, says the lack of funding for VisitBritain risks ruining the opportunity the weak pound has created for domestic tourism.
Posted: 01 May 2009 | 14:37
VisitBritain has said it does not plan to issue specific advice to visitors to the UK on the swine flu pandemic, as yet.
Posted: 28 April 2009 | 11:42
The chancellor has been criticised for ignoring tourism’s potential as a source of economic growth in favour of long-term investments such as green and hi-tech industries.
Posted: 24 April 2009 | 07:30
The UK’s tourism industry is being held back by a Government that ignores its benefits, according to Bob Cotton, chief executive of the British Hospitality Association.
Posted: 03 April 2009 | 07:00
VisitEngland, the tourism body for England, has appointed James Berresford as its first chief executive.
Posted: 02 April 2009 | 08:30
The recession presents a huge opportunity for domestic tourism but only if the industry communicates the benefits of holidaying in the UK.
Posted: 30 March 2009 | 08:00
The Liberal Democrats took their campaign calling on the British government to take tourism seriously to 10 Downing Street on Wednesday, tying in with British Tourism Week.
Posted: 27 March 2009 | 08:10
The Government's decision to reinstate the role of head of policy at VisitBritain hopefully signals its intention to take tourism more seriously, according to a leading trade body.
Posted: 26 February 2009 | 08:00
While VisitBritain struggles with continual restructuring and shrinking budgets, VisitScotland has unveiled a tourism strategy that could just see Scotland ride out the recession. Or is it just a load of marketing guff? Rosie Birkett reports
Posted: 26 February 2009 | 00:00
VisitBritain has created the new role of head of policy, in a bid to gain more influence with Whitehall decision-makers.
Posted: 20 February 2009 | 15:35
There's a new tourism minister in place - Barbara Follett - and we've offered Caterer readers a chance to grill her on current policy. So read on to find out her responses to questions on major issues: the cut in VisitBritain funds and planning for the Olympics among others (page 20). Before that, we interview the minister in person, plus get the views of shadow tourism incumbent Tobias Ellwood. Could he offer hospitality a better deal?
Posted: 19 February 2009 | 00:00
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