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Staff and residents Yeovil’s newest care home are thrilled to have taken delivery of a wheelchair-accessible Peugeot Horizon, acquired with the specific purpose of making it easy to transport individuals around the town for one-on-one activities at favourite places.
Teams from a dozen Bristol hotels netted more than £500 for charity after taking part in a fund-raising football tournament.
The unpredictable weather throughout August did not prevent hoteliers in Bristol from enjoying a strong summer and being cautiously optimistic about the future.
A practical event has taken a significant step towards dispelling the myth that the hospitality sector only offers ‘stop gap’ jobs for people to earn money while considering their long-term careers.
Over the past year, a volunteer team has been working hard to redisplay Dorset’s smallest museum, the Corfe Castle Town Trust Museum at Corfe Castle, in Purbeck.
Trewithen Dairy is witnessing a remarkable surge in clotted cream sales, which is great news for the dairy and farming industry in Cornwall.
A specialist firework company from Bristol has taken home the top prize at the prestigious British Firework Championships 2023.
Bristol hoteliers are backing the possible introduction of a new short-term visa scheme which could be just to the job to help solve their long-running staff-shortage problems.
A Roman road network that spanned Devon and Cornwall and connected significant settlements with military forts across the two counties as well as wider Britannia has been discovered for the first time.
A brand-new collaboration between Newquay Business Improvement (BID)’s Love Newquay and Boardmasters will see additional exposure for 16 local businesses via their inclusion on the popular Boardmasters festival app.
Members of Bristol Hoteliers Association (BHA) are teaming up with their counterparts in Bath to take steps to raise thousands of pounds to support Hospitality Action.
Three members of staff who have each given more than 30 years’ service to the DoubleTree by Hilton Bristol City Centre have been recognised for their commitment.
The St Austell community came together at the town’s annual Garden Festival on Last weekend (Saturday June 24) to celebrate the landmark completion of St Austell’s Townscape Heritage Scheme – a five-year project to reimagine the town for the benefit of residents, visitors and the local economy.
Litter Free Dorset have partnered with Weymouth Town Council and Weymouth and Portland Marine Litter Project to expand their beach toy library, with two additional locations on the busy Weymouth Seafront just in time for the start of summer holidays. The toy library allows visitors to borrow and reuse toys for free, meaning visitors save money, help reduce waste and stop plastic entering our oceans.
Organisers of Cornwall’s surf and music festival, Boardmasters, will donate £50,000 to Newquay’s Concrete Waves Skatepark between now and 2025.
Hoteliers in Bristol are renewing calls for tighter regulations and restrictions to be imposed on Airbnb properties which affect both the hospitality sector and the rental market.
A sunshine safari to Longleat proved to be just the ticket for a group of Weston-super-Mare school children, thanks to the local Rotary Club and coach operator Bakers Dolphin.
Lawyers at Osborne Clarke in Bristol have advised Dalata Hotel Group plc on its £53.4 million purchase of the Apex Hotel London Wall from Apex Hotels.
The family of amateur sailor Simon Speirs, who tragically lost his life when swept overboard while taking part in a round-the-world yacht race, have donated £140,000 to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
