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The volcanic ash-related disruption that has shared the headlines with the election campaign since the middle of April has brought mixed fortunes for the hotel sector. More than 95,000 flights were cancelled across Europe during the six days of disruption...
Posted: 28 April 2010 | 11:42
With the announcement that Ufi Ibrahim, chief operations officer of the World Travel & Tourism Council, is to replace Bob Cotton as chief executive of the British Hospitality Association, Neil Gerrard asks six key industry figures for their thoughts on the challenges facing the new boss...
Posted: 04 April 2010 | 09:00
The second London Restaurant Festival will run in the capital for two weeks in October, Caterersearch can reveal. The event was launched last year by the London Evening Standard’s food critic Fay Maschler and Simon Davis, who together run restaurant consultancy A Private View.
Posted: 31 March 2010 | 16:58
Scotland has been hailed as a world leader for its food and drink by a global study that put it ahead of eight other destinations, including Louisiana, South Africa, Belgium, Ontario, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and South Korea. The first worldwide study by the International Culinary Tourism Association
Posted: 29 March 2010 | 12:12
A website for tourism businesses looking to benefit from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been launched. VisitBritain, together with London 2012’s Nations & Regions Group (NRG) and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG)...
Posted: 23 March 2010 | 12:41
Story of the week: England's visitor economy can grow from £97b in 2010 to £147b and create 225,000 more jobs over the next decade, according to VisitEngland.
John Footman is to become the new chef at the Goose in Britwell Salome, which was forced to close ...
Posted: 19 March 2010 | 16:36
Research released by VisitBritain on Tuesday (16 March) to mark the start of British Tourism Week, forecasts that tourism will be one of the UK’s best performing sectors over the coming decade.
The research, carried out by Deloitte and Oxford Economics...
Posted: 19 March 2010 | 14:39
England's visitor economy can grow from £97b in 2010 to £147b and create 225,000 more jobs over the next decade, according to VisitEngland. The headline aim, which represents 5% growth year-on-year throughout the decade, came as part of this morning's launch of the official tourist body's...
Posted: 18 March 2010 | 12:08
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: tourism could lead UK growth with government support; Punch to shake up board to reconnect with shareholders; Center Parcs believed to be heading for flotation; Titanic menus reproduced for memorial cruise...
Posted: 15 March 2010 | 10:13
Liverpool City Region's tourist board, the Mersey Partnership, has made David Andrews a new director in charge of overseeing the area's £1.3b visitor economy. Andrews has worked for the UK's national tourist body VisitBritain and its forerunner the British Tourist Authority ...
Posted: 08 March 2010 | 13:27
By Janet Harmer London looks set to be ready to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of people expected to pour into the capital for the Olympic and...
Posted: 26 February 2010 | 15:15
British Tourism Week (15-21 March 2010) aims to demonstrate the critical value of tourism to the economy of the United Kingdom.
Posted: 23 February 2010 | 10:00
Letter of the week: Room to improve these vital feedback systems. Other topics covered in this week's batch of readers' letters include: TripAdvisor has to take control; don't let your utility bills run up; and how to be part of British Tourism Week.
Posted: 19 February 2010 | 15:29
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
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