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While many of the measures in the Budget are to be welcomed, the Chancellor has missed an opportunity to create more jobs by making Britain’s hospitality and tourism industry competitive with other European countries, says Martin Couchman, deputy chief executive, British Hospitality Association. “The Chancellor said that he wanted Britain to have a tax system that is more competitive for business than any other major economy in the world, but Britain has …

The hospitality industry can create 475,000 jobs by 2020 if barriers to growth are removed, says a new report by Oxford Economics, Hospitality: Driving Local Economies, commissioned by the British Hospitality Association, which is being distributed to every MP, MEP, MSP and Welsh Assembly member. The report, which identifies the hospitality industry’s contribution to each of the 406 local authorities throughout the country, says that the hospitality industry directly employs 2.4m people …