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Bar, restaurant and hotel operators and staff across Scotland are gearing up to open indoors to customers tomorrow (Wednesday July 15) after almost four months of closure

Bar, pub and restaurant operators can now register online to take part in the UK Government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme

VAT on food and accommodation in hospitality venues is to be cut to 5% for the next six months and consumers offered discounted meals in venues as part of a raft of new measures designed to kickstart the economy in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown

Support for grassroots music venues is being “actively considered” by the Scottish Government, economy secretary Fiona Hyslop has said

The Scottish Government has written to hospitality and retail businesses encouraging them to “take steps to discourage people from smoking or vaping” while queuing to enter premises

This has been a year unlike any other for Scotland’s bars, pubs, restaurants and hotels

Trade groups have widely welcomed the provisional reopening of outdoor spaces on July 6 announced by the Scottish Government yesterday (June 24) – but say measures such as the two-metre physical distance rule still pose a major threat to the sector

Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has announced July 6 as the provisional date for the reopening of outdoor areas such as beer gardens as the Scottish Government publishes its updated route map out of lockdown

A reduction on non-domestic rates, improved access to finance, government stakes in hospitality businesses and keeping pressure on Westminster to reduce the VAT rate are among the steps the Scottish Government could take to help the economy recover in the wake of COVID-19

The hospitality industry and its suppliers may need to “work hard” to reassure customers that a one-metre social distance is safe, according to recent surveys