Holiday park operator Center Parcs says it sees the corporate market as a key area for growth over the next year as it gears up for the opening of its fifth 'Village' - Woburn Forest in Bedfordshire.
Hilton Worldwide is to open its first hotel in Scotland under its Hampton by Hilton brand after securing a franchise agreement with property company SCOT Sheridan and Curo West Campbell.
Restaurant and bar groups Living Ventures and D&D London experienced very merry Christmasses last year with 'record sales' up 43 per cent and 5 per cent respectively.
Competition in the dining-out market grows stronger every year, so how can you ensure your restaurant is visited and continues to be visited by customers? While food, drink, service and price are key, the design you choose for your restaurant can also...
With a record number of tourists continuing to flock to London, chef, TV personality and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay is fronting a new video campaign to promote the capital’s food and drink businesses to the rest of the world.
Renowned Indian restaurant Madhu’s is doubling up for the first time in over 30 years with a second venue opening in the Sheraton Skyline Hotel at London’s Heathrow Airport.
De Vere Venues, the meetings and conference division of hotel company De Vere, was the big winner of Laterooms.com’s annual ‘Simply the Guest’ awards, earning top spot in the Best Large UK Hotel category and second place for Best Business Hotel.
The chef-patron of L’Anima in the City of London discusses his southern Italian roots, working with business partner Peter Marano, and his plans to enter the accessible all-day dining sector.
Malaysian chef Norman Musa is looking to bring his Manchester-based Ning Restaurants business to London with an upcoming food stall in Soho being used as a forerunner for a potential permanent site in Islington.
Brits decided to celebrate last Christmas and New Year by eating out in pubs and restaurants according to the latest Coffer Peach Business Tracker which found that like-for-like sales were up 3.3 per cent on the same period in 2012.
Ekachai, the South East Asian restaurant group, is beginning a culinary and interior makeover of its original site in Liverpool Street before embarking on expansion plans to double its estate over the next five years.
New hotdog venture Dirty Bones will tonight open its ‘secret’ downstairs restaurant, offering American-inspired dishes, with cocktails and regular live music.
Hotel safety auditors Check Safety First have launched a new service which will allow hotel companies to better manage consistency across their brands.
With a combination of smart management and Richard Caring’s backing, Bill’s has made the jump from fledging concept to major national player in record time.
Peach Pubs plans to continue looking for more sites this year after experiencing a strong 2013 and its most successful week 'on record' before Christmas.
James, Karina and Guy Hitchen, the owners of Manchester's Southern Eleven and Neighbourhood restaurants, are planning to open another two businesses in the city this year.
The Greenhouse and Restaurant Story in London, Restaurant Tristan in Horsham and Adam's Restaurant in Birmingham are among the 19 businesses who have been awarded three and four AA rosettes today.
Restaurant magazine highlights 18 things set to make it big in the restaurant sector in 2014 and makes a host of other predictions for the industry this year.
Chef Paul Foster is leaving Tuddenham Mill to take up the position of head chef at The Dining Room restaurant, situated within Mallory Court Hotel near Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire.
The Columbo Group has acquired two sites in East London - The Cat and Mutton in Hackney and Bar Music Hall on Curtain Road, Shoreditch - growing its restaurant, pub and live music venues portfolio to eight.
'Serial hotelier' Andy Townsend is chief executive of Legacy Hotels and Resorts, the hotel management company he set up in 2005 following a stint as a divisional director at Macdonald Hotels. The father of five has worked in the industry for...
The recent flurry of small fine-dining venues in London looks set to continue into 2014 with the opening of a new, 20-cover ‘create your own tasting menu’ restaurant in Marylebone next week.
With immigration rules closing the door on all but the most senior chefs hoping to join the UK restaurant industry, there’s a crisis simmering in the kitchens of the nation’s curry houses. A recently launched initiative from the Asian Restaurants Skills...
Chef Kenny Atkinson is looking to develop the skills of young people in the industry by recruiting five apprentices for his new restaurant House of Tides.
New Moon Pub Company, founded by North West chef David Mooney and former Living Ventures director Paul Newman, is opening its fifth venue in three years.
Leonid Shutov, the man behind Soho’s Bob Bob Ricard, is planning to open ‘London’s largest luxury restaurant’ next year, having acquired the former Just St James site in Mayfair.
NatWest and RBS have launched a £250m interest free loan fund to help out hospitality businesses who have been affected by the recent floods and strong winds.
Increasing consumer confidence will drive growth in the UK restaurant sector through 2014, according to industry experts, but will be tempered by the continued squeeze on operators’ profit margins.
Branded coffee shop sales rose by 9.3 per cent last year with 5,531 outlets turning over a total of £2.6bn according to latest figures from Allegra Strategies.
The festive period appeared to be one of the strongest on record for many restaurant and pub groups across the UK, despite the recent challenges to footfall caused by the extreme weather.
It is now compulsory in Wales and there are calls for the rest of the UK to follow suit. But opponents of the current system say it is inconsistent and open to misconception. Should all restaurants and takeaways be required by law to display their food...
The toastie, barbecue restaurants and Greek wine are all tipped to make it big in 2014 according to predictions by the team at Restaurant magazine, whose first edition of the year is out on Wednesday 8 January.
Hotels should expect to see an increase in the number of bookings from corporate guests this year after a survey showed that 76 per cent of business travel buyers will have more money to spend in this area in 2014.
Giaconda Dining Room, the family-run café in central London, has begun the New Year under a new guise with the launch of La Giaconda Restaurant, Café and Bar on the site.
The managing director of the Deer Park hotel in Honiton, Devon, said he will continue to invest in the property through 2014 to help reach the business's aim of becoming 'one of the leading hotel and wedding venues in the South West'.
