Kate Nicholls

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Viewpoint: This cut-and-paste Budget isn’t even a sticking plaster for hospitality

21 March 2024 by

The chancellor could have used the Spring Budget to give the hospitality industry a better chance of survival, but instead he may have condemned even more companies to closure, says Kate Nicholls

In-Depth

Kate Nicholls: Government must get hospitality back on its feet in the Budget

22 February 2024 by

UKHospitality has been using its voice to campaign for change in the Spring Budget on 6 March. Kate Nicholls lays out what the industry needs

Viewpoint: Restore balance to the accommodation market In-Depth

Viewpoint: Restore balance to the accommodation market

03 May 2023 by

Short-term lets are running rampant and undercutting hospitality venues, with need for intervention says UKHospitality’s Kate[...]

Rail strikes: hospitality bookings cancelled rather than postponed News

Rail strikes: hospitality bookings cancelled rather than postponed

23 March 2023 by

Hospitality customers are outright cancelling rather than rebooking plans disrupted by rail strikes due to uncertainty[...]

Calls to name and shame ‘disgraceful’ rogue energy suppliers News

Calls to name and shame ‘disgraceful’ rogue energy suppliers

16 January 2023 by

UKHospitality has urged the energy watchdog to call out rogue suppliers who have been using government[...]

Kate Nicholls: 'the new prime minister must act now and act decisively to support our industry’ News

Kate Nicholls: 'the new prime minister must act now and act decisively to support our industry’

06 September 2022 by

Kate Nicholls asks for action from the new prime minister Liz Truss to help hospitality survive[...]

UKHospitality launches campaign to stop the government from changing the VAT rate Business

UKHospitality launches campaign to stop the government from changing the VAT rate

23 February 2022

Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UKHospitality, speaks to Emma Lake about the trade body’s campaign to rethink the coming changes to VAT

Operators issue plea for clarity amid fears of further restrictions News

Operators issue plea for clarity amid fears of further restrictions

21 December 2021

Hospitality operators have issued a plea for clarity after reports suggested further restrictions were under consideration and could serve up a further financial blow ahead of Christmas.

Landlords still chasing hospitality tenants for unpaid pandemic rent News

Landlords still chasing hospitality tenants for unpaid pandemic rent

07 December 2021 by

Landlords are still pursuing County Court Judgments (CCJs) demanding rent from hospitality tenants for the periods[...]

UK hospitality industry yet to recover to pre-pandemic trading levels News

UK hospitality industry yet to recover to pre-pandemic trading levels

12 November 2021 by

The UK hospitality industry is still yet to recover to pre-Covid trading levels with businesses ‘fighting[...]

Hospitality warns multiple price increases may be necessary post-Christmas News

Hospitality warns multiple price increases may be necessary post-Christmas

10 November 2021 by

Some hospitality businesses are expecting to have to raise prices for customers two or three times[...]

Kate Nicholls, Alastair Storey and Nisha Katona appointed to government’s hospitality council News

Kate Nicholls, Alastair Storey and Nisha Katona appointed to government’s hospitality council

29 September 2021 by

Industry heavyweights including Robin Hutson, Kate Nicholls, Alastair Storey and Nisha Katona have been appointed to[...]

Will hospitality pay the price for the sugar tax? In-Depth

Will hospitality pay the price for the sugar tax?

23 July 2021

The National Food Strategy Report filled the headlines with stories of salt and sugar taxes and recommendations on a radical overhaul of the UK food system.

One in five hospitality landlords still 'unwilling to negotiate' on rent News

One in five hospitality landlords still 'unwilling to negotiate' on rent

16 July 2021

One in five hospitality landlords are still unwilling to negotiate on rent payments, UKHospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls told MPs.

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