BHA Member: Memories of China

Announcements: November 2011

TripAdvisor

November 03, 2011

We have recently raised several issues with TripAdvisor as a result of members’ concerns. Two in particular are “disappearing and reappearing reviews” which are taken off the site by the reviewer, slightly rewritten and put back as new (and therefore prominent) entries; and problems where a guest uses the hotel wi-fi to submit a review, which TripAdvisor then wrongly suspects was penned by the hotel. If you have been a victim of …

Europe in Denmark

November 03, 2011

We attended last week’s Copenhagen meeting of our EU hotel and restaurant confederation, HOTREC, allowing for detailed discussion with the European Commission officials responsible for VAT (they want to see fewer reduced rates!) and for the new Food Information Regulation. This comes into force at the end of 2014, with a new requirement to make allergen information “available” in restaurants- we will be discussing the detail with the UK government over the …