How SMEs are faring in these challenging times with an update from the SME Finance Monitor to Q3 available

In this blog, James Bland provides an overview of hybrid events. Which could be a major opportunity for hotels and venues following the changes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

As Pfizer and Moderna announce COVID-19 vaccines with 90% efficacy, we might at last be able to think about a real ‘Post Covid-19’ world.

August 2020 was a month filled with so much promise and excitement at the start of the year. Even at the start of April, I was confident that it would go ahead as normal. By early July, everything hung in the balance.

With limitations on what can be open, some attractions have chosen to change their pricing. In this blog, we explore the ways in which organisations are responding to these ‘restrictions’.

As the Government encourages more people to return to the office, we have been looking at how businesses are responding.

Anubhuti Manglik, has been been busy setting up www.hotelitout.com, a collaborative blogging website which shares updates on the hotel industry. Anu's blog gives a useful round-up of the new measures employed by the main players in hotel accommodation.

It seems a global pandemic may well have been an unexpected saviour (for NPS at least!) in retail banking, with three of the big four Australian banks and a number of Tier Two brands seeing substantial uplifts in NPS.

In the Q2 wave of our Landlords Panel research programme, we interviewed c800 members of the National Residential Landlords Association with BTL borrowing to assess take-up of mortgage payment holidays and the drivers for doing so.

Just after the lockdown was announced, as you can imagine, we found business sentiment among investors had reached its lowest ebb in 14 years of our quarterly tracking. Three months on and confidence is slowly flowing back to the sector.

It started with a dream of being on a beach. We imagined getting the train to Margate, Broadstairs or Brighton on a sunny Friday morning. However, forecasts of the Great British weather during the period of our planned domestic getaway were anything but great.

Following on from Rishi Sunak's announcements of VAT cut and 'Eat out to help out' scheme, will it stimulate demand for the hospitality industry? See how our insight from our attitudinal segmentation in our free weekly COVID tracker sheds some light.