Monthly Archives: August 2012

Welcome to our special report on Scotland’s top 60 brands. In the link below you’ll find comprehensive listings of the country’s favourite drinks, commentary...

TRAVELODGE is to shed 49 of its 513 hotels and reduce the rent it pays on a further 109 as part of a financial...

A DOUBLE-whammy of recession and road works is conspiring to put the squeeze on Edinburgh’s restaurants. The “challenging” economic climate was cited by top chef...

RYDER Cup hero Sam Torrance made a guest appearance at Gleneagles recently at a trade day hosted by Caledonia Best. Tennent Caledonian Breweries invited customers...

WE’VE had pop up bars and restaurants – now what’s claimed to be Scotland’s first pop up hotel has arrived in Edinburgh. With demand for...

Analyst says online marketing should reflect consumer web use HOSPITALITY operators can profit by analysing consumers’ use of social media and review sites to inform...

IT’S hard to see how the Olympics could have gone any better for LOCOG (London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games). New heroes...

Instead of hitting tourists with further charges, it’s time for Edinburgh City Council to lobby the UK government to cut VAT for the hospitality...

Is it right for boards to consider pending charges before guilt is established? IN the last issue of SLTN solicitor Stephen McGowan deconstructed the suggestion...

A CAMPAIGN for a return to traditional pub and nightclub trading hours has been launched in Glasgow, amid growing concern that intense price competition between operators is fuelling binge drinking in the city late at night. Operators are lobbying the city’s licensing board, the police and council leaders for the restoration of the midnight and 3am closing times for pubs and clubs, which largely prevailed until the 2005 licensing Act replaced seven licence types with the single premises licence in 2009.