Hospitality confidence is broken as sector continues to face Covid impact

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 Hospitality confidence is broken as sector continues to face Covid impact

This is 42 percentage points lower than the 60-point consensus in the February issue of the poll, before the pandemic.

In the most recent firm confidence survey conducted by CGA and Fourth, only 18% of executives are optimistic for the year to come

Four-and-a-half years after the EU referendum, only half (51%) of Heads of State and Government felt they were well prepared for the UK's EU exit at the end of the year.

Wider constraints imposed over the autumn mean more than a quarter (27%) of cross location business leaders expect them to remain unviable within the first six months of 2021 if current levels of support continue.

Companies that run a one-site facility are even more likely to fail, according to the survey.