Month: January 2016
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Jan- 2016 -18 JanuaryCurrent Affairs
National Living Wage will make 70% of workers ‘more positive’
More than 70% of workers will “feel more positive” after the introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW), according to…
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18 JanuaryCurrent Affairs
Plans for London’s ‘first underground hotel’ rejected
Plans for a development dubbed London’s ‘first underground hotel’ have been rejected by the local council. Criterion Capital applied to…
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15 JanuaryCurrent Affairs
Booking.com identifies ‘small bug’ in system update
Online travel agent Booking.com has said it has identified a “small bug” in its latest system update, resulting in a…
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14 JanuaryProperty
EasyHotel plans £4m Ipswich hotel
Super-budget brand EasyHotel has announced plans to open a hotel in Ipswich after conditionally acquiring a property in the town…
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13 JanuaryTourism
UKinbound slams proposed fee increase for visit visas to the UK
UKinbound has slammed the Home Office’s announcement of a proposed 2% fee increase for visit visas to the UK. Deirdre…
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12 JanuaryCurrent Affairs
WATCH: BHA hits out at Airbnb over ‘professional landlords’
The CEO of the British Hospitality Association (BHA), Ufi Ibrahim, has criticised Airbnb and similar services over ‘professional landlords’ and…
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12 JanuaryPeople
BHA launches ‘Hospitality Works’ to attract jobseekers into hospitality
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) has teamed up with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to launch a new…
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12 JanuaryProperty
Two Holiday Inn Express hotels on the market for £13.5m
Two Holiday Inn Express hotels have been put on the market for a combined total of £13.5m. The 120-bedroom Holiday…
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11 JanuaryProperty
Travelodge to open 19 hotels in 2016
Budget hotel brand Travelodge has announced plans to open 19 new hotels in 2016, with an investment value of £140m.…
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11 JanuaryProperty
Nine-year hotel investment high at £8.1bn
Total transaction volumes in the UK hotel market reached £8.1bn in 2015, the highest level since the £8.3bn record in…
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