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Hospitality battles on after flooding in Cumbria

Rescuers in Cockermouth, the town worst hit by last week's floods (Rex Features)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 announces new Breakfast Awards for members

The new Breakfast Award logoVisitEngland 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 figures highlight economic importance of disabled customers

Disabled travellers make a big contribution to domestic tourism revenueNew 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

Confidence returns to the hotel market

London has fared better than many other cities this year in terms of hotel revenueDespite 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 joins Green Tourism Business Scheme

Blenheim Palace wins a silver for its green effortsBlenheim 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 75% of Brits plan to holiday in UK next year

The domestic tourism boom looks set to continue next yearAlmost 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

Double win for Richmond’s Bingham hotel in BT Visit London Awards

The Bingham won two prizes in this years BT Visit London AwardsThe 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 rejects ETOA claims that London won’t benefit from Olympic Games

Visit London is flying the flag for the benefits of the London Olympics in 2012Visit 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 defends chairman Peter Lederer over payments to Gleneagles

Peter LedererVisitScotland 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

London Restaurant Festival Award winners revealed

London Restaurant Festival Award winners revealedQuo 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

London Restaurant Festival launches tonight

Pierre Koffmann's pop-up restaurant atop Selfridges will be a festival highlightThe 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

Three men deny conspiracy to sell Ritz hotel for £250m - For more hospitality stories, see what the weekend papers say

The weekend papersA 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

Bidder pays £23,000 to dine with Gordon Ramsay on London Eye

Gordon RamsayA 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

Scotland claims al-Megrahi release will not hit tourism

St Andrews is the home of golf but operators fear Americans will head elsewhereScottish tourism leaders have denied that the controversial decision to release the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, will impact US tourism to the region. HIT Scotland's chief executive David Cochrane said that while the initial reaction from the US ...
Posted: 18 September 2009 | 08:00

Recession undermines attraction of weak pound to overseas visitors

The recession is counteracting the allure of the weak pound for overseas visitorsThe weak pound is attracting an increasing number of leisure visitors to the UK, but the positive figures are expected to be eclipsed by the effects of the recession, according to VisitBritain. Holiday visits to the UK are up 4% since the start of 2009 as a result of a favourable exchange rate for foreign travellers.
Posted: 15 September 2009 | 16:19

Joss Croft is new regional director for Europe at VisitBritain

Joss Croft VisitBritain has appointed Joss Croft as regional director for Europe.
Posted: 11 September 2009 | 15:42

Tourism Society and Tourism Management Institute join forces

Tourism Society and Tourism Management Institute join forcesThe merger will increase the new organisation’s membership by 20% and TMI president, Roger Platt said: “We are confident that the unified organisation will be an even stronger, financially secure body and that the TMI Sector will remain an obvious choice for destination managers.”
Posted: 11 September 2009 | 09:50

Friday Wrap: A round-up of the week's hospitality news

Phil HowardStory of the week: Phil Howard is one of Britain's most accomplished and respected chefs - he's also a recovering drug addict. Watch Caterer's exclusive interview with the Michelin-starred chef. The future of VisitEngland's accommodation bookings system, EnglandNet, is in jeopardy and more...
Posted: 04 September 2009 | 16:30

EU complaint threatens EnglandNet booking system

The state funding of the VisitBritain website is at the heart of the complaint The future of VisitEngland's accommodation bookings system, EnglandNet, is in jeopardy after a complaint to the European Commission claimed it contravenes EU competition laws and wastes taxpayers' money. The complaint, made by Helpful Holidays - a holiday cottage letting agency ...
Posted: 03 September 2009 | 13:00

Hotels to benefit from decade of sports events

Parisian hoteliers achieved 50% extra profit at the 2007 Rugby World Cup finalsThe announcement in July that England had won the right to stage the 2015 Rugby World Cup was the latest development in what is being dubbed by spectators as the UK's "golden decade of sport". The event stands to bring in an estimated £2.1b to the British economy, according to ...
Posted: 01 September 2009 | 13:00

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