News and trade publications can be valuable resources for identifying and keeping up with the latest trends in the hospitality and events sectors. You can use the resources below to access both general and hospitality-specific news.
Contains company information for 11,000 companies world-wide, daily financial and business news, the full text of the Financial Times. Also includes news from over 2000 global sources with a 40 year archive.
The Economist online offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology. It publishes all articles from The Economist print edition (including those printed only in British copies) and maintains a searchable online archive that dates back June 1997 (for articles published prior to 1997, you will need to use The Economist Historical Archive). It also offers a variety of web-only content, including blogs, debates and audio/video programmes.;PLEASE NOTE: The Economist are experiencing issues with certain browsers (particularly Chrome) and recommend using Firefox to access content.
The latest UK and international business, finance, economic and political news, with comment and analysis from the Financial Times team, plus an archive of the Financial Times (including facsimile of the print edition) from 2005 onwards. To access content, click login in the top right hand corner of the ft.com homepage, enter your University of Essex email address and click sign in with "SSO sign in".
Large commercial US-based site that nevertheless offers a lot in the way of free news, trends & research aggregated from many sources around the world for the hotel, hospitality & travel sectors.
Industry body created in 2018 from the merger of British Hospitality Association (BHA) & Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR). Represents the interests of hotels, restaurants & food service providers. Some useful free publications.
