Resilience

One of the lessons we should take away from the COVID experience – in a business context – is the ability to recover quickly from unexpected challenges. Firms in the hospitality and entertainment sectors are excused as they have had no power to act in...

Boost to UK tourism

In a boost to UK tourism, the government has launched a new Tourism Recovery Plan to help the sector bounce back from the pandemic. The plan is to recover domestic tourism to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2022 and international visitor numbers and spend by the end...

No time for head in the sand tactics

Companies that are still claiming the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme grants, now known as the furlough scheme, will have hard choices to make come the end of September when the present scheme ends. Unless business activity picks up between now and September a...

Holiday update

As lockdown is being eased and opportunity to holiday opens, we felt it might be useful to set out bank holiday dates for the UK regions for the rest of this year. England and Wales – 2021 Date Day Holiday 31 May Monday Spring bank holiday 30 August Monday...