Britain’s visitor economy facts
Since 2010 tourism has been the fastest growing sector in the UK in employment terms. Britain is forecast to have a tourism industry worth over £257 billion by 2025.
Hospitality
Here you will find content relating to the Hospitality sector, such as Hotels, Restaurants and the services which support them.
Oxfordshire’s most renowned venues are ready and waiting to welcome you...
Freedom is here!! It’s time to start making plans and getting excited about moving back to a slightly more ‘normal’ world, with lockdown restrictions easing we are now able to visit wonderful venues such as Blenheim Palace, Oxford University colleges and The Ashmolean Museum.
Appetite for instruction: Hard Rock Cafe Launches Hard Rock @ Home
Hard Rock Cafe® invites you to eat like a rock star with the historic launch of Hard Rock @Home
Al-Fresco dining and live music returns to Hard Rock Cafe London...
Live & unplugged sets every week at Hard Rock Cafe’s iconic London restaurants.
We’ll meet again… but how will we feel?
On this edition of The Business Brunch, we are joined by Stephen Spencer from Stephen Spencer + Associates, Wendy Ball from the Ashmolean Museum, Jon Young from BVA BDRC and Tagore Ramoutar from The Oxford Artisan Distillery as they discuss how people will react and what measures businesses should take to help visitors return to enjoy attractions and hospitality venues again.… what meeting again in the post Covid world will look and feel like.
Oxford School of Hospitality Management listed as top in the UK
The Oxford School of Hospitality Management, part of Oxford Brookes Business School, is the only UK hospitality school listed in the top ten Best Hospitality and Hotel Management Schools in the World for 2021.
Latest News from Conference Oxford
Welcome to our Spring 2021 Newsletter. What a difference a day makes! Following the eagerly awaited announcement from the Government on 22nd of February, we now have dates to work towards and we look forward to welcoming you back into our University and college venues very soon.
Selling Savvy launches programme for hotels and venues that are surviving...
Selling Savvy has launched a comprehensive online learning programme specifically for venues and hotels who want to upskill their junior sales and event coordinators quickly and effectively. The programme is a cost-effective way of supporting venues that may currently be surviving with the help of junior staff and is also beneficial to venues that might […]
The Disney Way
Holidays should be fun and relaxing, but one holiday spot has turned into a real-world business school for two leading Oxfordshire businessmen.
The Disney Way
Frank Nigriello’s loyalty and long service towards his employer, Unipart, is possibly matched only by his undoubted admiration and genuine fascination for all things Disney. So when Stephen Spencer made a passing reference to Disney as possibly his optimum case study when it comes to his area of expertise, customer experience, it didn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that these two could be TV gold….and so it proved.
The Disney Way
Holidays should be fun and relaxing, but one holiday spot has turned into a real-world business school for two leading Oxfordshire businessmen.
Trusting the Model
“A number of years ago, as the recently-appointed Commercial Director for the National Trust for Scotland, I attended a landmark tourism conference featuring speakers from some of the world’s most revered attractions and institutions. One speaker, Jo Pike, made a great impression on me.
Selling Savvy partners AV Companies to support venues & hotels to...
Selling Savvy has officially partnered with three well respected UK AV Companies to provide further support to venues and hotels across the UK, to enable them to offer and sell Hybrid Events. These four companies are SFL Group, Cue Events and AYRE Events. The partnership developed from a recognition that the virtual and hybrid world […]
Dirty Vegan Launches the Ultimate Vegan Kit for Veganuary 2021
Dirty Vegan and friends have come together this Veganuary with delicious plant-based comfort food, in DIY kit form to kick the new year of with some much needed
comfort and joy.
Mercure Oxford Eastgate Hotel – a city centre delight
I’ve always been intrigued by The Eastgate Hotel. Many a time I’ve met the team there for a meeting or had business lunches, events or client meetings, but I’d never set foot in one of the bedrooms, until recently.