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Two senior figures in the Scottish hotels industry have joined forces to launch a new hotel consultancy and management business

A “devastating” December for hospitality has thrown millions of pounds of investment into doubt, with the effects likely to be felt until 2022

Scottish hospitality group Crerar Hotels closed out 2020 in charitable form with the donation of £200,000 to various charities

Scottish finance secretary Kate Forbes has said she is “surprised and disappointed” that a new £4.6 billion coronavirus fund from the UK Treasury will seemingly contain no new money for Scotland

The UK Treasury has announced a further £4 billion in support for businesses as Scotland and England return to a state of full lockdown

Mainland Scotland will be put into lockdown for the whole of January from midnight tonight (4th January).

A number of rare and exclusive whiskies are going under the hammer to raise funds for Scottish licensed trade charity The Ben

The Scottish Government has outlined details of a £104 million new year hospitality and tourism support package – including over £50 million earmarked for businesses with rateable values over £51,000 which were left out of its earlier grants schemes.

An “additional upweighted ‘extraordinary’ package of funding” must be urgently identified from Scottish and UK government budgets to support hospitality businesses and the supply chain when further coronavirus lockdown measures kick in on Boxing Day, business trade groups have said.

Pubs and restaurants across Scotland will have to close from Boxing Day after first minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed all of mainland Scotland will be put under level four restrictions from 26th December.