A second national lockdown would put a million jobs at risk, warn hospitality chiefs at Britain’s leading bars and restaurants Hospitality bosses warn against two-week ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown in October Bosses say it would cripple firms that are ‘only just recovering from life support’ Around 900,000 hospitality employees are on Rishi Sunak’s furlough scheme By Harriet … Read more
Retail and hospitality businesses face ‘bloodbath’ of failures as landlords prepare to call in unpaid lockdown rent By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 13 September 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 13 September 2020 Retail and hospitality businesses face a ‘bloodbath’ of failures as landlords prepare to call in unpaid rent from … Read more
Chancellor dishes up help for hospitality and offers a leg up for young workers… but businesses warn Britain faces a hard road back By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:15 BST, 8 July 2020 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 8 July 2020 Business leaders warned there was a ‘long hard road back to full … Read more
MasterChef judge Melissa Leong shares light-hearted clip of her bar owner husband Joe toasting those affected in hospitality amid Victoria’s renewed COVID-19 lockdown By Jabeen Waheed For Daily Mail Australia Published: 12:12 BST, 7 July 2020 | Updated: 12:13 BST, 7 July 2020 Melissa Leong has shared a clip of her husband toasting the camera … Read more
A think tank has urged the Chancellor to give every adult in the UK a £500 shopping voucher in a bid to boost struggling high streets. The Resolution Foundation has called on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to hand out vouchers totalling some £30 billion to get high streets back on their feet in the wake of … Read more
Cornwall could see a staggering 80,000 tourists entering the county this weekend, as businesses open their doors on ‘Super Saturday’. There is expected to be an influx of visitors as hotels, campsites, pubs and restaurants are allowed to open on July 4, for the first time since lockdown. Hotels, AirBnBs, campsites and caravan parks are gearing … Read more
So just WHEN will pubs reopen? Nicola Sturgeon confirms Scottish hospitality industry will remain CLOSED well into July despite a ‘gradual opening’ of its economy – as Boris Johnson refuses to to confirm July 4 date for English boozers to reopen She will update Scotland about its lockdown in Holyrood this afternoon It could see Scottish … Read more
Pub groups were on the rise as investors cheered moves to reopen the hospitality sector. Ministers are said to be looking at whether pubs, restaurants and cafes could be back in action by June 22, rather than July 4, in a bid to ‘save the summer’. A reduction to Britain’s two-metre social distancing rule to … Read more
Easing the social distancing rule from two metres to one will have ‘no significant impact’ on the risk of spreading coronavirus, a government adviser claims. Professor Robert Dingwall said a change in policy could allow four times as many people into a space as is currently allowed, signalling a huge boost for the hospitality industry. … Read more
The boss of a tourism board in the UK has today warned how business owners in the hospitality sector are committing suicide due to the financial pressures they are facing in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. James Mason, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, says the UK’s £50billion international tourism industry could lose up … Read more