News: February 2012

Maintaining and improving provision and quality with reduced funding is the stark reality and challenge faced by the hospitality and culinary education sector, and the theme of the PACE (Professional Association for Catering Education) Conference Exhibition 2012:  Entrepreneur – Enterprise in our Curriculum, 21-23 March 2012, Hilton Blackpool. PACE is committed to supporting its members during these difficult economic times, and through its conference – the UK’s biggest dedicated to catering education …

‘Discriminatory and extremely damaging’ – Simon Kershaw The proposed introduction of a tourism levy on overnight visitors to York is described as ‘discriminatory and extremely damaging’ by Simon Kershaw of the Best Western Willerby Manor Hotel and chairman of the northern region committee of the British Hospitality Association.  , He said that the industry already had to carry a 20 per cent VAT burden which made UK tourism uncompetitive. “All but three …