For instance, the companies Pembrokeshire Coastal Cottages and Hoseasons provide self-catering accommodation.

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The tower will receive its first paying guests in new self-catering accommodation on Bank Holiday Monday.

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Owl House Backpackers offers pleasant self-catering accommodation in Allemann se Huisie, a garden cottage with a patio for braais (barbacues), and Aandster, a renovated Karoo house and former sculpture studio.

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Though sport is the focus of such ventures, experience in security or transport requirements, press operations, accommodation and catering, cleaning and waste management are valuable in different settings too.

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In very difficult economic times, it is a boost to local businesses - people stay in local accommodation, they buy supplies in local shops and local businesses supply our on-site catering.

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Low Penhowe guest house at Burythorpe, near Malton was named as the Guest Accommodation of the Year winner and Noelles Cottages at Pickering had the recipe for success as the self-catering holiday venue.

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