Brits Set To Add Over £27 Billion To The UK Economy By Taking A Staycation In...
As an increasing number of Brits look to travel at home, new research reveals that 70% of people plan on taking a staycation in the UK in 2020, adding £27 billion to the economy[1]. The research which...
View ArticleChinese New Year Celebrations Set To Spark Further Surge In Asia Visitors...
With Chinese New Year fast approaching, the latest data from Expedia Group, the world’s travel platform, reveals how interest in ‘Destination UK’ continues to surge from Asia visitors. Chinese New Year...
View ArticleNew Figures Show A Record October For Inbound Tourism Spending
New figures released today show that it was a record October for inbound tourism spending in the UK. Visitors spent £2.3 billion in the UK in October 2019, the highest ever for the month of October and...
View ArticleNegative Perceptions Of The UK Biggest Challenge For Tourism Businesses In 2020
During its Annual Convention in Bristol travel trade association UKinbound has announced that the top challenges for its members in 2020 include a negative and unwelcoming perception of the UK...
View Article7 In 10 Consumer Businesses Confident Of A Successful Brexit Deal
More than 70 per cent of consumer-facing businesses are confident that the Government can broker a Brexit trade deal that protects their interests, according to new research from audit, tax and...
View ArticleExpedia Group Data Reveals UK Regions Are Benefiting From Boom In Wellness...
With interest in ‘wellness tourism’ booming, the latest data from Expedia Group, the world’s travel platform, reveals how both domestic and international visitors in greater numbers are seeking out UK...
View ArticleTourism Awards Celebrates Newmarket Amidst Tough Competition
Bedford Lodge Hotel & Spa, the 4-star luxury Hotel in Newmarket, Suffolk, has been crowned Best Hotel at the Norfolk & Suffolk Tourism Awards 2020. Scooping the award from amongst the finest...
View ArticleHospitality And Tourism Action Group Forms To Protect Industry Workforce
The Hospitality and Tourism Action Group – whose members include ABTA – The Travel Association, UKHospitality, UKinbound, and the British Beer and Pub Association – has come together to call on the...
View ArticleUKInbound Asks For Urgent And Aggressive Government Intervention As COVID-19...
UK travel trade association UKinbound, which represents over 400 tourism and hospitality businesses, has written to chancellor Rishi Sunak asking for aggressive and urgent Government intervention to...
View ArticleUndervaluing Inbound Tourism Will Hamper The UK Economy’s Recovery From...
Leading tourism trade association UKinbound has issued a stark warning that the country risks damaging and prolonging its economic recovery if the inbound tourism industry, worth nearly £23bn to the UK...
View ArticleOver Two Years’ Worth Of Profit Warnings Issued In 2020 By FTSE Travel &...
FTSE Travel & Leisure companies have issued 54 profit warnings to date in 2020 (13 May 2020), equating to over two years’ worth of warnings (2019:23 2018:28), according to EY’s latest Profit...
View ArticleAPPG Publishes Report Into Effects Of COVID-19 On Hospitality And Tourism...
Cutting tourism VAT, an overhaul of the business rates system and the creation of an October Bank Holiday are some of the ways in which the Government can support the UK’s hospitality and tourism...
View ArticleTourism During COVID-19: Tripadvisor Releases Findings Of A Staged Recovery
Travel platform Tripadvisor®, has released the findings of a multi-month study that analysed consumer travel sentiment and first party behavioural data related to the ongoing pandemic. The report...
View ArticlePent-Up Demand For Holidays Will See UK Households Spend £960 On UK Breaks
With hotels, pubs and restaurants set to reopen from 4th July, research from hospitality job board, Caterer.com, reveals that 41% of people are keen to book a staycation as soon as they can. half (58%)...
View ArticleVisitengland Partners With Tourist Organisations To Launch Industry Standard...
VisitEngland in partnership with the national tourist organisations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales has today launched a UK-wide industry standard and consumer mark to provide a ‘ring of...
View ArticleAPPG Launches Inquiry Into UK Coasts And Waters
Following the success of its Pathways to Recovery report, The All Party Parliamentary Group for Hospitality and Tourism has today launched a new inquiry into coastal and lakeside tourism. The ‘Coasts...
View ArticleTour Operators Set To Make Large Scale Redundancies Without Government Action
88% of tour operators and destination management companies (DMCs), who are responsible for bringing in and looking after over 50% of all international visitors to the UK (and over 70% of visitors from...
View ArticleTour Operators Set To Make Large Scale Redundancies Without Government Action
88% of tour operators and destination management companies (DMCs), who are responsible for bringing in and looking after over 50% of all international visitors to the UK (and over 70% of visitors from...
View Article10,000 Jobs At Stake And Businesses Set To Fail UKInbound Issues Urgent Plea...
UKinbound has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson pleading for urgent and decisive action to secure the future of the inbound tourism industry – worth £28 billion to the UK economy in 2019. The...
View ArticleTravellers Confused By Inconsistent COVID-19 Travel Rules And Advice Across...
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has called for more consistent travel rules and COVID-19 advice by European countries to counter confusion by travellers and holidaymakers. Those...
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