COP26 Summit: Get involved for free – Wednesday 3 November Schedule
With the United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, underway in Glasgow until 12 November 2021, here are some of the ways our hospitality family can get involved, […]
15 February 2021
A letter to the Chancellor
Peter Ducker FIH wrote to Rishi Sunak MP last week asking him to extend the VAT and business rates cut for hospitality businesses. We would encourage our Members to do […]
15 July 2020
Eat Out to Help Out!
The Government last week announced the Eat Out to Help Out scheme. The scheme is planned to help incentivise customers to once again eat in at participating restaurants or eating […]
11 February 2019
Q4 update: an opportunity to review the shape of the UK foodservice market
Foodservice expert Peter Backman FIH takes a closer look at performance in the last quarter of 2018 to see what it tells us about the shape of UK foodservice in […]
15 January 2019
Village Hotel Club to invest £480m in ambitious UK expansion plans
Village Hotel Club, which currently has 29 hotels across the UK, plans to open five hotels over the next two years, with a further fifteen sites planned by 2026. The hotel […]
11 January 2019
Institute’s Spotlight on Hospitality 2019 industry report now available
Spotlight on Hospitality 2019 is an annual report published by the Institute of Hospitality containing data and insight into the hospitality industry in the UK and around the world. The […]
4 January 2019
Outlook for Africa’s hotel market in 2019
Trevor Ward FIH provides expert analysis of the investment and performance outlook for hoteliers across the African continent. Budgeting for next year used to be so simple – inflation was […]
31 December 2018
What 2019 holds in store for UK hoteliers
2019 looks like being the year of uncertainty, says hotel consultant Melvin Gold FIH, and not just for hoteliers. Some will see uncertainty as opportunity, others as threat, but in […]
27 December 2018
2018: a rollercoaster ride for UK foodservice
Peter Backman FIH reflects on a unsettling year for UK restaurants while pubs, fast food and take-aways did better. More uncertainty in 2019 could pave the way for new ideas […]
3 December 2018
Spontaneity, robots and veganism: Millennial trends that are driving tomorrow’s dining economy
20% of UK millennials go out less to restaurants now due to food delivery, shifting £1bn a year to delivery services Over half of millennials (52%) would dine in a […]
16 October 2018
The elephant in the room: human capital development at AHIF 2018
Can human capital development keep pace with hotel investment in Africa? Earlier this month at the Africa Hotel and Investment Forum (AHIF) in Nairobi, Belinda Nwosu FIH co-hosted a roundtable […]
1 August 2018
Hilton and Edwardian Hotels London join call for more training opportunities
Two of the UK’s largest hotel groups are backing a drive to encourage more ‘earn and learn’ training opportunities to be provided by businesses in the hospitality sector. Hilton and Edwardian Hotels […]
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