12/22/2020 12:00:00 AM Retail and leisure: 5 predictions for 2021 By Adam Walford Antonia Frangakis Anna Armstrong 2020 was a year unlike any other. The retail and leisure sector experienced one of the greatest years of change and has been subjected to...
12/9/2020 12:00:00 AM The bounce back: hotels still a bit down, but campers are happy By Howard Kennedy The Office for National Statistics has just published its new report "The impact of the coronavirus so far: the industries that struggled...
9/9/2020 12:00:00 AM Track and trace to be compulsory for hospitality businesses By Howard Kennedy New restrictions for England are to come into force on Monday 14 September 2020 after a rise in the number of coronavirus cases in the...
7/23/2020 10:17:01 AM Food for thought: Things to consider when transitioning your business online By Howard Kennedy As the Covid-19 pandemic has swept across the globe over the past 6 months, many businesses in the retail and leisure sectors have had to...
7/1/2020 8:48:22 AM The Clink Charity By Adam Walford Phenomenal statistics and results about the excellent work The Clink Charity does. Initiatives such as The Clink Charity doing good for...
6/22/2020 12:00:00 AM COVID-19: Government publishes the Code of Practice for commercial property relationships By Howard Kennedy This voluntary code of practice is one of the measures announced by the Government over the last few months to address the impact of...
4/23/2020 12:00:00 AM New measures announced to curtail "aggressive rent collection" By Howard Kennedy On 23 April 2020, the Business Secretary, Alok Sharma, announced that temporary measures would be taken to restrict the use by landlords...
4/23/2020 12:00:00 AM Call for hospitality businesses to give evidence for UK Pathways to Recovery By Howard Kennedy Inquiry into measures for UK hospitality and tourism business recovery The All Party Parliamentary Group for Hospitality and Tourism has...
4/22/2020 12:00:00 AM Two thirds of hospitality businesses "won't survive 3 month lockdown"; ask for 9 month rent holiday By Howard Kennedy A recently-published survey of hospitality businesses indicates that two thirds of them believe that they will not survive another three...
4/20/2020 11:34:16 AM Portal now open to claim wages through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme By Howard Kennedy The portal for businesses to claim 80% of employees' wages plus any employer National Insurance and pension contributions, if they have...
4/20/2020 12:00:00 AM Hotel chains with leased properties trying to negotiate rent concessions By Howard Kennedy As expected, hotel chains with leased premises, like so many businesses in hospitality and retail, are asking for rent concessions amid...
4/16/2020 12:00:00 AM The Impact of COVID-19 on Hotel Values By Howard Kennedy HVS have published an insightful article on the valuation of hotels and hotel/hospitality businesses while they are in effect shut down...