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A VisitBritain-commissioned report which predicted that UK tourism revenue would grow by more than 60% by 2020 has been dismissed as “fantasy” by a leading trade body. The report suggested the total value of tourism to the UK could rise by more than 60% to £188b over the next decade.

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Greg Mulholland, chairman of the Save the Pub Group, has requested a meeting with the Home Office to discuss the Government’s planned overhaul of licensing laws. The Lib Dem MP is concerned that proposed changes announced by Theresa May earlier this week will unfairly harm community pubs.

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US restaurant chain The One Group is to enter the UK market next year to look after the food and beverage operation at the revamped Hippodrome Casino in London’s Leicester Square. The Hippodrome relaunches in 2011 as a 24-hour operation featuring a casino, terrace, restaurant, multiple bars and a cabaret.

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“Ego and PR” are the only reasons to cater at the London 2012 Olympics, according to contract caterers who question the profitability of the games as the two-year countdown to the start of the Olympics begins. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games (Locog) began inviting caterers to bid.

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An extensive review of Merchant Inns for its bankers warned that its financial forecasts were “simplistic” and its financial control “weak”, more than three months before it went into administration. The boutique pubs-with-rooms operator, owned by property magnate Sir John Ritblat, called in administrators Deloitte in October last year, following the sacking of its chairman, [...]