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A flood of shoppers from France, China and the Middle East helped drive up profitability in London hotels during May, according to the latest HotStats report from Tri Hospitality Consulting.
Posted: 29 June 2010 | 11:03
Low-income families are struggling pay for healthy school meals for their children while a third of schools are still failing to comply with nutritional guidelines, according to a report by schools watchdog Oftsed.
Posted: 25 June 2010 | 17:52
Annual turnover in the UK contract catering market grew fractionally by 0.8% to £4.165m in 2009, compared with £4.133b in 2008, according to the latest survey by the British Hospitality Association.
Posted: 15 June 2010 | 17:28
The number of meals served by UK contract caterers fell marginally by 0.7% to 1.607 billion in 2009, compared with 1.619 billion in 2008, according to the latest survey by the British Hospitality Association.
Posted: 15 June 2010 | 17:07
Food and labour costs as a percentage of turnover fell marginally in the contract catering industry during 2009, according to the latest survey by the British Hospitality Association.
Posted: 15 June 2010 | 16:24
During recession-hit 2009, food service management companies were obliged to take on greater commercial risks as profit and loss contracts grew by more than 75%.
Posted: 11 June 2010 | 15:38
The number of contract catering outlets in the UK fell by 2.3% to 16,583 in 2009, down from 16,983 in the previous year, according to the latest survey by the British Hospitality Association.
Posted: 11 June 2010 | 11:23
The number of employees in the UK contract catering market (calculated as full-time equivalents) dropped by 6.4% to 109,512 in 2009, down from 114,565 the previous year.
Posted: 10 June 2010 | 17:08
German cities staged a strong improvement in profitability in April 2010, according to the latest monthly survey of 10 UK countries by Tri Hospitality Consulting.
Posted: 10 June 2010 | 14:00
Hotels in Barcelona boosted profitability by 170% in March 2010 but were still among the lowest-performers of the 10 European countries surveyed in the monthly HotStats report from Tri Hospitality Consulting.
Posted: 08 June 2010 | 16:44
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Whitbread to raise £100m through private placement; machismo eating trend that consumes live animals plans UK launch; dine in the sky experience at Edinburgh Festival and more…
Posted: 01 June 2010 | 10:29
After a tough year of recession, freezing weather and volcano ash, Brian Wisdom, chief executive of hospitality Sector Skills Council People 1st, reports on the state of the hospitality industry as the State of the Nation 2010 report is published.
Posted: 28 May 2010 | 16:13
When an industry sector comprises some 150,000 businesses, employs almost two million people and accounts for nearly 5% of the UK's economic output, it deserves to walk with a swagger in its step.
Posted: 28 May 2010 | 16:12
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms, is showing signs of a slight economic recovery with global revenue per available room (revpar) growing for the first time in 18 months. The company’s first quarter results for 2010 show a revpar growth of 0.2%, including growth in March of 4.1%.
Posted: 11 May 2010 | 13:36
The number of UK hospitality and catering outlets dropped marginally in 2008 to 262,134 establishments, down from 263,053 the previous year.
The steepest fall was seen in the pub sector, where outlet numbers dropped by 2.9%, while hotels suffered a marginal decline.
Posted: 06 May 2010 | 15:58
The number of hotel companies going bust during 2009 soared by 61% compared to the previous year, according to accountancy firm Wilkins Kennedy.
Hotels which went into liquidation, receivership, administration and company voluntary arrangements rose to 122, up from 76 in 2008.
Posted: 04 May 2010 | 14:48
The London hotels market is bouncing back from the depths of recession, but a recovery in the provincial sector is still too early to call. That's the picture provided by TRI Hospitality Consulting's latest review of the UK chain hotels market for March 2010.
Overall gross operating profit per available room (Goppar) in the UK jumped 8.3% for the month, although this masked a much higher climb of 17.6% in London, compared to a fall of 2.5% in the provinces.
Posted: 04 May 2010 | 13:03
Whitbread retained its status as the UK's biggest hotel operators in 2009, operating the most hotels and the most bedrooms. Its Premier Inn budget chain grew by more than 59 properties to 577-plus hotels by the end of August, while the bedroom tally soared by more than 4,000 to in excess of 40,000 bedrooms.
Posted: 27 April 2010 | 17:41
Whitbread retained its status as the UK's biggest hotel operators in 2009, operating the most hotels and the most bedrooms.
Posted: 27 April 2010 | 17:19
Premier Inn and Travelodge continued to dominate the budget hotel market during 2009 with a tally of more than 30,000 and 23,150 bedroom respectively.
The number of budget hotels in the UK grew to 1,366 in the year to 31 August 2009, with a combined 105,470 bedrooms.
Posted: 20 April 2010 | 17:56
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