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No Tourism Alliance or TIER Updates today, but some interesting items to share nonetheless: Financial Impact Survey – the final survey results are here with the staff and cost analysis added to previous versions. Its noticeable that event business have reported increases in input and material costs almost double that of other tourism businesses. Events […]

February 10, 2022 – Compass Hospitality continues its strong expansion into the UK market, with an additional Scottish property, acquired by Singapore-based Seacare Hospitality. The Best Western Queen’s Hotel of Perth will be the Compass Hospitality’s 16th hotel in the UK, further establishing the hotel management companies’ strong foothold in the market. Located in the […]

Here’s today’s update. With the winging down of Covid restrictions, these updates will be winding down to come out only when there are significant changes. Prime Minister’s Announcement On Restrictions The Prime Minister announced in parliament that the Government is planning to remove the remaining Covid-related restrictions centred on self-isolation within two weeks rather than […]

In support of this year’s National Apprenticeship Week, BVEP and its partners are delighted to announce that they have started the process of reinvigorating the events industry apprenticeship scheme at a time when recruitment challenges are impacting all types of businesses across the sector. Richard Waddington, EMA and BVEP Skills, Talent & Diversity Working Group Event […]

Leading event industry mentoring programme, @FastForward15 has announced its 2022 charity event, The Bingo Ball, held on 8th March from 6:30 pm at ExCeL London, in aid of @MindOut – LGBTQ Mental Health Service – a mental health charity for the LGBTQ community in the UK. Developed by this year’s mentees and sponsored by @international-confex, […]

No Tourism Alliance or TIER updates tonight, but we would like to draw your attention to the following: The Vision2025 Impact Report 2021, partly funded by EIF – available here. Click here for the press release on VAT – ‘Cut VAT to save £4.6bn and ‘level up’, industry bodies urge Government’. And last but not […]