Category: Tourism & Hospitality

As predicted the October 2018 Budget introduced the extension to the Intermediaries legislation – usually referred to as IR35 – which will come into force from April 2020 for “medium” and “large-sized” (definitions as yet unspecified) businesses in the private...

Thousands of UK businesses seem to be struggling, to the point where quite a few of them are likely to be going out of business. Whether large or small, it is becoming increasingly difficult for businesses to turn a profit and this...

The recent report carried out on Modern Working Practices has seen the Hospitality sector identified as one where a significant proportion of the workforce are on, or close to, the minimum wage. It is all too easy to inadvertently fall...

For the past decade, online travel agents (OTA’s) such as Booking.com and Expedia have continued to tighten their grip on the tourism market, but there are indications that the power may be starting to move back into the operators hands....

Lord Price (CVO), Minister of State for Trade and Investment, recently spoke about the growing interest in the UK from investors from several countries across the world. In what has been described as the “second Elizabethan Golden Age of trade...

When we awoke on Friday 24th June 2016 it appears the world, at least for the UK and businesses operating here, had changed, the people had spoken and decided they wanted to leave the EU. So what are the consequences...

The hospitality and tourism sectors are constantly changing and businesses operating within them must respond to changes in both global and local market conditions and ensure that they are aware of their competition. For the second year the MHA Hospitality and...

The latest Travel & Tourism Survey conducted by MHA, the UK-wide association of chartered accountants and business advisors, indicates that 26% of operators in the hotel and bed and breakfast sector are still unable to take online bookings. This is...