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Industry Insight: Have banks helped us by restricting funding?
Five years on from the start of the global financial crisis, the development of new hotels in the UK is still considerably below its 2008 peak. Robert Barnard, head of hotel consultancy at business advisory
Read More »Industry Insight: The Impact of Happiness on Productivity
Reports on the state of the hospitality industry have recently begun to look more hopeful, with figures suggesting that it will outperform the wider economy over the next two years. However, proprietors and managers
Read More »Industry Insight: The rise of the staycation: myth or reality?
Tim Cook is a partner at OC&C Strategy Consultants, where he heads up the company’s leisure practice If you ask consumers about people’s changing holiday habits, they will tell you three things: people are
Read More »Industry Insight: The Hospitality Industry – The Answer to Unemployment?
Simon Numphud, AA hotel services manager shares his insight The recent People 1st State of the Nation 2013 report highlights that the hospitality industry will need to recruit 660,200 people by 2020. Yet currently
Read More »Industry Insight: Putting POS in the Palm of your Hand
TISSL’s Stuart Coetzee extols the virtue of mobile POS devices. As tools in a restaurant’s armoury that can speed up ordering and table service and make for happier diners, more upselling and increased table
Read More »Industry Insight: Top tips for Quality in Tourism
Gary Swarbrooke, Director of Policy and Quality at Quality in Tourism, sits down with Hotel Business Magazine’s Zoe Monk and provides some quick tips to help UK hoteliers deliver on their quality offering With
Read More »Industry Insight: Is the hospitality industry making the most of funded training?
Bob Cotton OBE, former chief executive of the British Hospitality Association and hospitality advisor to Wellers Accountants, discusses the lack of uptake in funded training for the hospitality sector and why more independent operators
Read More »Industry Insight: Top 10 mistakes the hotel industry makes when it comes to wasting profit
Like many other sectors today, the hotel/hospitality industry is a tough market to be in. Increased demand for high quality, low cost accommodation, food and beverages and facilities, not to mention fierce competition. All
Read More »Industry Insight: Gender Diversity – a Practical Guide
By Sharon Glancy, founder of Women 1st, the thought leadership, training and mentoring programme for the UK’s hospitality, passenger transport, travel and tourism industries The hospitality and tourism industry is one of the greatest
Read More »Industry Insight: Healthy Clients can Make for a Healthy Business, with Help from your EPoS Solution
TISSL’s Stuart Coetzee is convinced more and more people are trying to eat healthier while dining out. He recommends that restaurants use their EPoS solution to shed pounds off their clients’ waistline and put
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