Pubs planning to show the 2012 Olympics or European football championships on TV in their venue over the summer have been warned most sports fans intend to vist the pub less and publicans need to bear in mind the size of their screen and drinks prices to keep their sporty drinkers on side, according to a new study.

Hospitality interiors specialist Andy Thornton has developed a range of industrial style 'lived in' look furniture ideal for restaurants, hotels and pubs and bars who want to create a vintage look in their venues.

The Premier League has announced pubs that are still using foreign satellites to show live football will now continue to face legal action following a High Court judgement on a European Court of Justice (ECJ) judgement.

Carlsberg has launched the first major brand extension to its San Miguel lager in the UK.

With the fifth annual National Apprenticeship Week kicking off today, businesses from across the UK have told BigHospitality what they´re doing to take on more apprentices and increase the number of vocational opportunities in the industry.

Simon Streat, managing director of SME, Experian UK&I, explains how restaurant, hotel and pub owners can improve their credit ratings to help give business a boost and make it easier to expand.

Italian café chain Carluccio's has acquired four former Paramount Restaurants sites, while La Tasca has confirmed it has taken on two from the company administrators and Byron has also acquired a Waterloo site that was previously part of the estate.

Hotel La Tour, the £24 million flagship development in a new chain of UK city centre hotels, is set to open its doors next month on the doorstep of the Bullring development in Birmingham city centre.

The role restaurants, pubs and bars can play in the rejuvenation of the High Street in the UK needs to be increased if the 'Portas Pilots' scheme for towns, as a result of the Mary Portas review, are to be a success, according to hospitality industry experts.

Twenty-five of Scotland´s top chefs come together today for the Scottish launch of Slow Food UK´s Chef Alliance ´ a new initiative to encourage the nation´s chefs to support the aims of Slow Food UK.

Jamie Oliver has acquired a site in Winchester for the first Union Jacks restaurant outside London it has been confirmed, while the successful Italian casual dining concept Jamie´s Italian will see five more openings before Autumn amid plans for a further venture at Gatwick Airport.

Restaurants, pubs and hotels, including Macdonald Burlington, Pollen Street Social, Barracuda and Best Western tell BigHospitality about special events and promotions they're running to attract more customers.

The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) has launched a new website to provide diners with a easy-to-use means of finding places to eat out that match their values.

Fuller´s, the brewer and pub operator, has announced they are to acquire 15 freehold, tied and tenanted pubs from the pubco Enterprise Inns in a deal costing the London-based company £22.9m.

UK hotels are being encouraged to enter the World Travel Awards (WTA) as nominations open for the 2012 programme of travel industry awards.

Cocoa grower and chocolatier Hotel Chocolat has opened Roast + Conch, a casual café concept serving cocoa-based food and drink, in London's Seven Dials district of Covent Garden with plans for a fine dining restaurant in the UK to follow.

Premier Inn, the UK´s largest hotel chain owned by Whitbread, has secured planning permission for a new £10 million, 175-bedroom property in Bristol´s city centre.

The number of hospitality businesses falling into administration increased by 19.3 per cent in 2011, indicating that the sector was one of the worst hit by the economic crisis.