December 08, 2011
106 hotels with 11,800 rooms opening in 2011 170 hotels with 21,500 rooms planned for 2012, says BHA Despite the recession, the UK hotel industry is continuing to expand with 106 hotels opening in 2011 (11,800 rooms) and a further 170 hotels (21,500 rooms) planned for 2012. Since the present hotel building boom started in 2003, over 105,000 new rooms have been added to UK hotel stock. Just over half (55 per …
October 13, 2011
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 …
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