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January 6th, 2012
Dyslexia and the Hospitality Industry
In our latest Bulletin we focus on dyslexics who have found success in the Hospitality industry. In particular we focus on Marco Pierre White and Stephen Mannock, now General Manager of Wivenhoe House Hotel, who both started as chefs partly because more academically orientated careers were closed to them. As Marco Pierre White says:…
December 20th, 2011
Making your restaurant more accessible for people with hearing loss
Action on Hearing Loss have issued some guidance to restaurants on how to be more hearing loss aware: Do your serving staff know how to communicate with someone with hearing loss? Simply facing diners and speaking clearly can make the world of difference. You should train your staff in basic deaf awareness and good communication…
December 14th, 2011
Hearing Loss Awareness in London’s hotels and attractions
Our latest Bulletin summarises Action on Hearing Loss research which suggestss that London’s hotels and attractions still have some way to go to be fully hearing loss aware. Luckily there were only a few responses to enquiries along the lines of: “if he can’t hear he won’t understand us so we can’t do anything” or in relation to…
December 1st, 2011
Disabled Persons Railcard is 30 years old
Launched in 1981 the Disabled Persons Railcard turns 30 this month. At a reception at the House of Commons hosted by Paul Maynard MP and attended by Norman Baker, the Under Secretary of State for Transport, the Railcard’s birthday was celebrated by remembering how far things had come in those 30 years. Sir Bert Massie…
November 28th, 2011
Nick Clegg on the racial ‘ceiling’
In our latest Bulletin we report on Nick Clegg’s Scarman lecture dealing with the racial ‘ceiling’ in the UK and in banking and sport in particular. Particular attention grabbing quotes were on football: “how many black managers are there in the Premier League? Zero. “And in the top four divisions? There are just two, despite…
November 4th, 2011
Importance of having women at the top
In our Bulletin we look at the progress made since the Davies Report called for more female representation on FTSE 350 Boards. We would just like to quote Katherine Milkman, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, on one of the important aspects of this: “If women don’t look up from the lower rungs of…
October 25th, 2011
Using the web to access the disabled market
The latest One and All Bulletin sets out how to prepare an Access Statement on your web site to provide useful information to disabled people and can be found on our Bulletin page at . For more detailed information on preparing an Access Statement we recommend the VisitEngland website at: http://www.visitengland.org/accessstatements
October 6th, 2011
State of the Nation, 2011
Diversity Issues raised by the State of the Nation Report 2011 People 1st have just produced their excellent State of the Nation Report for 2011 on the UK hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industries. As the report points out it is the third largest sector for workforce size employs 2.1 million people across the UK,…
July 1st, 2011
Roadblocks for women in hospitality
Continuing our series highlighting different areas of discussion that have come to the fore recently, we look at various recent events and surveys involving Women in Business. Perceived Career Roadblocks for Women in Hospitality Breakfast Briefing on 21st June In a Breakfast Briefing Debrah Dhugga, General Manager of the Dukes Hotel, Alison Frith , Owner…
May 13th, 2011
London – Bric capital of the World
Continuing our series highlighting different areas of discussion that have come to the fore recently, we look at the surprising continuing strength of London as a global city London: Bric capital of the world?. One of the themes of this newsletter is that Diversity is important not just because of the obvious social justice of…
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