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The International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF)

Is anyone in the community interested in getting together at IHIF?

 

Let me know if you are attending the IHIF in Berlin this year.

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Are you in the hotel industry; has your business got a social media strategy?

Are you in the hotel industry; has your business got a social media strategy?

 

I have been approached to widen the net on respondents to a survey now in its second year that monitors the use of social media across the hotel industry and p...

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For those with Risk Management responsibility in a tourism and hospitality business

For any of you with Risk Management responsibility in a tourism and hospitality business, this should be required viewing

 

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/terror-at-sea-the-sinking-of-the-concordia/4od

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Chairman's Blog

In November, the volunteer committee that I chair met at Moorgate with executives of the ICAEW to review the progress made in 2011 and to set some goals and a route map for 2012.

 

This time last year we changed the model for this Special ...

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Reputation Management

As someone increasingly involved in assisting clients manage On Line Travel Agents and customer review websites, I noted that the Travel Innovation Summit made an award to a business launched in 2008 and now three years later indexes 100 million gue...
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The UK tour operator market

The sector will see higher levels of business failure, restructuring and consolidation in the near future as a result of longer term structural changes in the market and shorter term economic pressures. While some traditional tour operators have int...
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UK Hotel profitability over the long term - stripping out inflation

I found this an interesting, indeed challenging, study.

UK Hotel profitability over the long term - stripping out inflation.pdf 

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Do employers know the new Agency Workers Regulations?

New Agency Workers Regulations come into force in October 2011.

After 12 weeks in a job, an agency worker will be entitled to equal treatment in basic working and employment conditions.

i.e the same conditions that would have applied to t...

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Importance of the Chinese Tourist

With domestic retail spend at an all-time low; spend by tourists is increasingly important and the Chinese are leading the way. They view Europe as the home of luxury goods & furthermore, these luxury goods are much cheaper here than in China.

Lux...

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HOSPACE 2011 Conference and Exhibition hosted by HOSPA

Key current issues, trends and developments affecting all hospitality professionals will be examined by five of the industry’s most influential figures in a special ‘Leaders Panel’ di...