Alla Salahy, Senior Business Insights Manager UK, at American Express talks about the current trends in spending in the hospitality sector, including the effects of COVID and international spend.

In this episode of our UKH DEI series, we explore how DEI is important to recruitment and talent acquisition. Exploring how we can remove barriers and ensure that we can pool talent from a range of groups to nurture a diverse talent pipeline.

We are joined by:

• Moderator, Joanna Aunon, Director at WiHTL
• Sam Siegler, Director Hospitality, Travel, Leisure at the MBS Group
• Garry Clarke-Strange, Head of Inclusion & Diversity at Greene King
• Robert Zajko, Senior Director Talent Acquisition EMEA at Hilton

As everyone starts to feel the pinch Kate touches on what the difficulties are for businesses with Covid support having now fallen away, inflation seriously impacting consumer spend and the cost of doing business rising at an astonishing level.

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Kate speaks about the labour shortages the industry is experiencing and what UKH is doing to support businesses and highlight the issue in Government.

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Kate offers an update on how hospitality can support Ukraine and what the continued impacts are with new updates from Government.

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We caught up with Kate after a hectic week of meetings with Government, including three select committee evidence sessions. Hear more about how Kate has been championing the industry in this episode of Discussions with Kate

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Kate Nicholls (UKH CEO) and David Sheen (UKH Public Affairs Director) sit down with Mark McCulloch (Founder of Hospitality Rising Campaign) to discuss the official hospitality industry response to the recruitment crisis.

This campaign, which is backed by Hospitality and Tourism Skills Board, aims to change the perception of working in hospitality for the better.

Listen to find out what this campaign is all about and how you can play your part.

More information can be found at: https://hospitalityrising.org/

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In this episode Kate covers a wide range of topics including the global implications of the Ukrainian conflict, the ending of restrictions for hospitality businesses across the nations, our short to medium term asks of Government and what we hope to see in the upcoming Budget statement, and touches on the Hospitality Rising and CareerScope initiatives.

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