Hotel Trends and News

The British Chambers of Commerce has today announced the results of a survey indicating that we are about to drop into a recession.

Some of us thought we were already in one...

It is time to get real. What is the best way to tackle a recession from an individual business point of view? What do you cut? Why do you cut?

What do you want your business to be during the recession and what shape do you want it to be in at the end of the recession?

How long will the recession last for?

...answers on a postcard please...

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If people come to live and work in our lovely country because the economic conditions here are better than their own country - they will leave just as soon as those economic conditions become unfavourable.

It's a fact of life. According to the BBC news this morning, it has come to pass. The eastern Europeans are going home. Not all of them, but enough of them for our industry to start wondering where the next employees are going to come from.

As usual, it is everybody else's fault. "The government needs to do this", "somebody else needs to do that...". The familiar cries of an industry which generally made hay while the sun shone and failed (again) to keep any of it back for the lean times.

Recruiting into the hotel industry is difficult. Incoming migrant workers made it easy for hoteliers throughout Scotland over the past few years.

Where will the next batch of cannon... pardon me, "employees" come from? And will the industry learn how to train, motivate and develop them this time?

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