London was buzzing with gastronomic giants for the most prestigious chart count down in the business last night as The S.Pellegrino Worlds 50 Best Restaurants awards were announced.
Yet another restaurant has been forced to axe foie gras from its menu after pressure from animal rights activists. Beaujolais bistro, in Bath, acted quickly to remove the dish to prevent further incidents.
Liverpools status as the European Capital of Culture has led to the citys hotels recording a 15 per cent rise in yield from rooms booked in February. London also saw figures rise, but Cardiff failed to capitalise on the Six Nations rugby factor.
Property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz placed Laurel Pub Company in administration last night before immediately buying out the majority of its sites to be placed into two new companies.
Holiday resort chain Pontins has been bought by investment and management company Ocean Parcs - headed by former Pontins CEO Graham Parr - for an undisclosed sum.
Intercontinental - one of the worlds largest hotel groups - is to create 4,000 jobs in the UK in a war for talent. The recruitment drive will focus mainly on workforce, with one quarter constituting managerial positions.
Anantara Hotels & Resorts has announced the formation of a joint venture with Kempinski Hotels & resorts with a view to development in Europe, particularly in the Mediterranean. Anantaras growth plan includes at least 40 new resorts over the next...
Jamie Olivers Fifteen charity has been criticised by an independent review which claims the training programme at Fifteen London offered inconsistent training and patchy support and counselling to the disadvantaged youths on its apprenticeship scheme.
Hotels across the country are ignoring fire safety laws, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act. More than 1,200 hotels and B&Bs have been found to have insufficient protection against the risk of fire.
Leading nightclub operator CanDu Entertainment is set to enter administration as the struggling club and bar sector continues to feel the pinch of of the economic downturn.
Hotel developer Starboard Hotels has joined forces with regeneration specialist Priority Sites to deliver an ambitious £18 million development in Gateshead in the north east.
Novus Leisure is to acquire the lions share of Soho Clubs & Bars in a deal valued at between £8m and £10m. The group is to buy seven London venues from administrators Kroll.
The London Development Agency and the AA are driving a scheme that aims to increase the number of graded B&Bs in the capital and is offering ungraded B&Bs help to achieve this aim.
The protected Champagne region in France has been significantly expanded for the first time since 1927 in an attempt to ease ennourmous unfulfilled demand.
The Government joins forces with the UKs biggest water provider to urge the hospitality sector to offer free tap water to customers as a matter of course.
A Hilton budget hotel to be built at the foot of Constitution Hill in Birmingham has been hailed by civic leaders as a vital cog in the regeneration of the city.
A recurring problem for hoteliers - overflowing baths - could be a thing of the past thanks to new technology that utilises an innovative magnetic anti-overflow system. Noa-FloTM was officially launched at Hotelympia.
As British Pie Week draws to a close, Jo Bruce reports on an Oxfordshire pub that has built a profitable business focusing on the great British staple food.
Latest figures reveal that for the first time the majority of domestic holiday and business travellers in the UK are booking their hotels online, with a huge 70 per cent of business travellers using the internet to make their hotel reservations.
Property investment firm unveils plans to offload six UK hotels - including the Hotel Russell in London and The George in Edinburgh - in a package worth approximately £350million.
