Britain’s restaurant groups finished a difficult first quarter with modest like-for-like growth in March, the new NIQ RSM Hospitality Business Tracker reveals. The Tracker—produced by NIQ, powered by CGA intelligence, in association with RSM—shows restaurants’ sales in the month were 2.5% ahead of March 2025. It is a welcome sign of consumers’ readiness to eat out, especially on big occasions like Mother’s Day. Pub groups meanwhile achieved a like-for-like increase of only 0.2% in March,...

While generations take different approaches to more sustainable travel, adaptation to extreme weather and off-peak travel are becoming the new norms for all ages. A study of 32,500 travellers by Booking.com reveals older generations take more concrete sustainable actions despite younger travellers expressing stronger environmental intentions. With 85% of travellers saying that more sustainable travel is important or very important to them, older generations demonstrate greater commitment to...

The growth of agentic AI will mark the technology’s move away from the less useful, generative AI currently on offer to a product that can function almost autonomously, attendees of today’s webinar, hosted by HOSPA, heard. Speaking on Up Your AI Game: Turning Agentic AI into a Competitive Edge for Your Hotel , Wouter Geerts, director of market research at the event’s sponsor, Mews, said: “They're much more proactive. They can collaborate more with each other. Every person in a hotel can have...