Regulatory and Legal Affairs

The Audiovisual Licensing Alliance (AVLA) has reached an out-of-court settlement with Britannia Hotels in copyright infringement proceedings brought in the Court of Session in Edinburgh. As part of the agreement,…

Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Analysis of data from the Office for National Statistics has revealed that hospitality has accounted for over half (53 per cent) of all job losses…

This article was written by Travolution. Click here to read the original article The territorial distribution of short-term rentals (STRs) properties per inhabited square kilometre in Spain decrease by -0.2…

This article was written by Phocuswright. Click here to read the original article Outbound travel from the U.S. sustained robust activity in 2024, with total departures exceeding 107 million and…

The battle lines are drawn. You can’t miss the headlines about hotel companies launching legal action against giants like Booking.com, citing everything from unfair rate parity clauses to crippling commission…

A curious war is afoot, one fought not with bullets, but with lobbying dollars and legislative ink. It’s a conflict being waged against individuals who have made one of the…

The number of hospitality businesses entering insolvency eased slightly in the first half of 2025, but have still remained “historically high”, according to new findings from Buchler Phillips.  The firm’s…

Remarkably, the wood was still in good shape thanks to the parched climate. But the owner was just days away from tearing it down. He’d held off while the elderly…