The Michelin Guide for Great Britain and Ireland 2016 has awarded Two Stars to Japanese restaurants Araki and Umu, in a year that saw Lyle’s and The Man Behind the Curtain receive their first stars.
The UK hospitality and tourism industry employs 4.49m people - approximately 10 per cent of the working population – according to a new report by Oxford Economics.
Employers in the hospitality industry will see their wage bills increase by 3.4 per cent by 2020 with almost half of employees in the sector receiving a pay rise due to the rollout of the National Living Wage (NLW).
Calum Milne, managing director of Llangoed Limited which owns three country house hotels in Wales and Oxfordshire, says the group is aiming to open up to seven hotels in the UK.
A reception is being held at Parliament today (Wednesday) to highlight the importance of the hospitality and tourism industries to the British economy.