Articles

This section contains articles on key themes, written by members of our research team.

Many of the factors affecting the sector go beyond specific industry and geographic areas. These include particular skill areas, or issues such as the ageing workforce or women in management. Our articles combine data and analysis to highlight these specific themes.

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• 19 November 2008

  The Credit Crunch and the Hospitality, Leisure, Travel and Tourism Sector

  After a prolonged period of heavy lending, many business analysts pinpoint the 9th August 2007 as the day when the ‘credit crunch’ officially began. This was when the first clear examples of banks being reluctant to lend money to each other became evident. The rapid snowball effect of this has led to many businesses finding themselves with limited funding available to them.

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• 29 May 2008

  Learning the Language of Success

  It is a well known fact that the hospitality sector has a high rate of staff turnover.Over recent years the influx of migrant workers into the UK has gone some way towards easing that problem, but new evidence suggests that this could be about to change.

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• 24 January 2007

  Overseas Lessons

  The statistics on which Lord Leitch has based his recommendations make for bleak reading. His premise that the current low skills base of the workforce will hold back the economy is made on the back of 'league tables' that show the UK performing poorly compared to its international competitors.

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• 02 August 2006

  Knitting With Fog

  “You’ll soon see mate that it’s like knitting with fog. Good luck!”. With that he hit me on the back and left the room still chuckling to himself. This was back in January. I had just presented to a group of college lecturers and announced that we were about to embark on a study to assess how well the learning supply was meeting the needs of the sector. The particularly unhelpful observation had come from one of those lecturers. I had known him for a number of years and he had made his views very clear in the meeting that he thought we had a particularly difficult challenge ahead of us. Six months on, we have finished that assessment and well, he might have had a point.

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• 02 August 2006

  Counting Those Pennies

  The government spends an estimated 250 million a year on training provision for the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism sector in England. However, most employers do not know how to access this provision and those who do access it often find the process confusing and inconsistent.

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