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Additional bookings and revenue from passengers stranded from the ash cloud flight ban greatly exceeded that lost from cancelled inbound trips, according to hotel technology provider Pegasus Solutions.
Posted: 07 May 2010 | 18:00
Our weekly round of of the week's hospitality news includes: Majestic Hotel blaze: missing man named, Duncan Bannatyne unveils plans to expand Charlton House hotel;US wine merchant sues Gordon Ramsay over £27,000 of unpaid bills and more...
Posted: 07 May 2010 | 15:39
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
Discount promotions in restaurants and pub operators’ value-led food offering have significantly changed the habits of UK consumers when eating out.
That’s the conclusion from a new half-yearly report on leisure spending by corporate restructuring advisers Zolfo Cooper.
Posted: 05 May 2010 | 14:39
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
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: hotel insolvencies rise by 61%; Bannatyne Group buys Charlton House hotel for £3m; Armani opens his first hotel in Dubai; tourism boss calls for Government funds for Scottish B&Bs and more...
Posted: 04 May 2010 | 10:16
More than three-quarters of pub-goers admit to drinking cheap supermarket alcohol before they go out - a practice known as "pre-loading". Meanwhile, almost half of consumers are drinking in pubs less often.
Posted: 30 April 2010 | 15:22
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
Peel Hotels has warned that a recovery in the provincial economy is a long way off, as it slipped into a pre-tax loss for 2009/10. The firm managed to boost its revenue fort the year to 7 February 2010 to £14.1m, up from £12.7m, thanks to its acquisition of the Norfolk Royale hotel in May last year for £8.25m.
Posted: 23 April 2010 | 11:48
Lee Manning, reorganisation services partner at Deloitte, told Caterer that the drop was unexpected, and indicated that the UK economy could finally be turning a corner. "I think it is very encouraging. The numbers are lower even than they were in the comparison 2006/07 period," he said.
Posted: 22 April 2010 | 14:15
Topics covered in our weekly Infozone briefing include: staff demand growing slowly; employers warned on dress code; and low-cost, no-cost benefits.
Posted: 20 April 2010 | 14:47
Small- and medium-sized leisure and hospitality companies are in bullish mood, predicting 8.5% growth in their sector over the next 12 months, according to a new survey. Bosses in the sector are also expecting to put a total of 345,000 people back into work over the coming year ...
Posted: 15 April 2010 | 15:56
London and the provinces are taking very different roads to recovery, according to the UK hotels forecast 2010 and 2011, published by PricewaterhouseCoopers.The report shows that London is the engine driving UK hotels along the route to recovery with a forecast for the capital...
Posted: 15 April 2010 | 14:53
Punch Taverns retained its lead over Enterprise Inns as the UK's largest pub group in 2009. However, Punch only opened a net 28 new pubs to end the year with 8,428 venues, while Enterprise Inns added a net 75 pubs to bump up its estate to 7,775.
Marston's (formerly Wolverhampton & Dudley) moved up one place into the fourth position despiteshedding a net 22 outlets.
Posted: 13 April 2010 | 17:33
London hotels have enjoyed double-digit growth in revenue per available room (revpar) during the first quarter of 2010, according to business advisory firm Deloitte. Revpar growth of 10.1% to £94 was driven by occupancy which rose by 5.4% to 76.2%, while average room rates increased 4.5% to £123.
Posted: 13 April 2010 | 12:12
Hotel revenue per available room (revpar) rose by 13.6% in London and by 4.7% across the regions in the week ending 27 March 2010, according to figures from hospitality research company STR Global.
Revpar at London hotels increased to £110.76, up from £97.54 in the equivalent week of 2009.
Posted: 13 April 2010 | 11:57
Hotel revenue per available room (revpar) rose by 13.6% in London and by 4.7% across the regions in the week ending 27 March 2010, according to figures from hospitality research company STR Global. Revpar at London hotels increased to £110.76, up from £97.54 in the equivalent week of 2009.
Posted: 13 April 2010 | 11:46
Cardiff hotels saw revenue per available room (revpar) plummet by 19.4% in the week ending 27 March 2010, according to hospitality research company STR Global. Revpar declined to £40.05, compared with £49.71 in the equivalent week of 2009. Occupancy slipped by 9.7 percentage points...
Posted: 13 April 2010 | 11:36
UK sales of organic food slumped by 12.9% in the last year as falling consumer demand and the toughest trading environment for 20 years took their toll. The hardest-hit organic products were fruit, vegetables, meat and bread, which have the biggest price differential...
Posted: 12 April 2010 | 10:17
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