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Hotels have outperformed other areas of the hospitality industry when it comes to recruitment activity according to the latest Hospitality Employer Index report released by leading recruitment specialists, Caterer.com, and the sector skills council, People 1st. Advertisements across a range of key hotel-related posts have risen by five percent in quarter one to 17,734, while applications for these roles overall have increased by ten percent. Yet recruitment in other areas of the …

In these challenging times, an increasing number of hotel groups worldwide are incorporating an element of holiday shared ownership – timeshare or fractional units – into their business model. This is because the shared holiday ownership or timeshare industry, as it is known, has proven itself to be resilient across several economic recessions, retaining an average 86 per cent plus occupancy. Barnsdale Hall Hotel in Rutland, England’s smallest county, is a case …