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Concerned about your business? Contact Business Gateway
It is impossible to deny the impact of COVID-19 on the business community; according to recent research by Business Gateway, the pandemic is still a…
Hotel Support Programme – Maximise value on your grant funding
By Alastair Roy, Aro Procurement The recently launched £14m multi agency support programme aimed at protecting employment in the medium term within large hotels in Scotland…
Virtual hunting experience at Maryculter House
Maryculter House, best know as a popular wedding venue is pivoting slightly and has lodged plans with Aberdeenshire Council for a new wooden lodge to…
Andrew Fairlie Scholarship seeks aspiring chefs in Scotland
Hospitality Industry Trust (HIT) Scotland has announced that the Andrew Fairlie Scholarship is again seeking applications from aspiring chefs working in Scotland and this year…
Nearly half of jobs in hospitality at risk if second lockdown comes
If there’s a prolonged second lockdown academics at the University of Edinburgh Business School fear that 43% of Scottish jobs in tourism and hospitality could…
Boom in bookings at Meldrum House
Investing in outdoor dining domes has proved to be an inspired spend for Aberdeenshire’s Meldrum House Country Hotel. Their indoor seating was severely restricted due…
Hotels raise £37k and counting for charity partner
Independent hotel management company RBH has added £18,500 to its fundraising pot for charity partner 4Louis – taking its total for the partnership to just…
Carfraemill is brought to market after 23 years under the same ownership
Berwickshire hotel Carfraemill, which has been owned and run by Jim and Jo Sutherland for the past 23 years, has been put up for sale…
Hotel Recovery Programme worth £14m announced but is it enough?
The Scottish Government has thrown a lifeline to the struggling hotel sector with a funding package worth £14 million however although welcome trade bodies the…
No plans by First Minister to impose quarantine restrictions on UK travellers “right now”
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, today, did not rule out imposing quarantine restrictions on people coming to Scotland from other parts of the UK. She said…
State-owned hotels? Just one of the ideas put forward by The Advisory Group on Economic Recovery
A report just issued by The Advisory Group on Economic Recovery chaired by Benny Higgins has urged the Scottish Government not only to consider a…
Fife Arms, Fingal and Ness walk join Pride of Britain Hotels
Pride of Britain Hotels has three new Scottish members – The Fife Arms, Braemar; Edinburgh’s floating hotel Fingal and the Ness Walk in Inverness which opened…
2,137 free nights booked for medical staff at Ten Hill Place
Hotel bosses at Ten Hill Place, Edinburgh, who turned adversity on its head by giving rooms to frontline health workers at the height of the…
Ready, steady…open? Tourism Secretary Fergus Ewing announces 15th July as provisional re-opening date for tourism businesses
The hospitality industry now has a provisional re-opening date of 15th July. Tourism Secretary Fergus Ewing revealed the date in parliament today. He qualified the…