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Industry Insight: Have banks helped us by restricting funding?

Industry Insight: Have banks helped us by restricting funding?

Zoe July 22, 2013 0

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

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Industry Insight: The Impact of Happiness on Productivity

Industry Insight: The Impact of Happiness on Productivity

Zoe July 15, 2013 0

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

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Industry Insight: The rise of the staycation: myth or reality?

Industry Insight: The rise of the staycation: myth or reality?

Zoe July 8, 2013 0

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

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Industry Insight: The Hospitality Industry – The Answer to Unemployment?

Industry Insight: The Hospitality Industry – The Answer to Unemployment?

Zoe July 1, 2013 0

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

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Industry Insight: Putting POS in the Palm of your Hand

Industry Insight: Putting POS in the Palm of your Hand

Zoe June 20, 2013 0

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

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Industry Insight: Top tips for Quality in Tourism

Industry Insight: Top tips for Quality in Tourism

Zoe June 17, 2013 0

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

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Industry Insight: Is the hospitality industry making the most of funded training?

Industry Insight: Is the hospitality industry making the most of funded training?

Zoe June 6, 2013 0

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

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Industry Insight: Top 10 mistakes the hotel industry makes when it comes to wasting profit

Industry Insight: Top 10 mistakes the hotel industry makes when it comes to wasting profit

Zoe May 31, 2013 0

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

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Industry Insight: Gender Diversity – a Practical Guide

Industry Insight: Gender Diversity – a Practical Guide

Zoe May 23, 2013 0

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

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Industry Insight: Healthy Clients can Make for a Healthy Business, with Help from your EPoS Solution

Industry Insight: Healthy Clients can Make for a Healthy Business, with Help from your EPoS Solution

Zoe May 16, 2013 0

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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