One Cornish estate agent, Scott Burridge, has more than 10Newquay businesses currently listed for sale, including hotels and pubs.
Tennent Caledonian has announced a freeze in the wholesale price of its major brands to Scottish hotels, pubs and clubs this year.
The Scottish Executive said the fire service was concentrating prevention work on areas at the greatest risk, with "higher-risk premises" such as hotels and pubs receiving more in-depth and rigorous inspections than ever before.
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Whitbread owns Premier Inn hotels, Brewers Fayre pubs, Table Table pubs and Beefeater restaurants.
"That's when pubs and hotels benefit from the ferries, " he said.
Yet there is far to go, and a shift in attitude is needed to match the city's transformation into a service-based economy, a realisation that serving in pubs and hotels is just as fulfilling as turning a lathe.
Smoking is to be banned in all workplaces in the Republic of Ireland including pubs, restaurants and hotels, from 26 January.
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Tourism Minister John Penrose said changes could provide an "important source of new income to struggling businesses such as pubs, restaurants and hotels".
Now Cardiff-based Brains which runs over 270 pubs, bars and hotels across Wales and the west of England, is taking on the restaurant.
The chain of pubs, restaurants and hotels will continue trading, while administrators KPMG seek a buyer for all or parts of the troubled business.
She was also the force behind the creation of the new Irish Whiskey Trail, which combines pubs, distilleries, museums, shops and hotels into a tourism pathway to the discovery and appreciation of Irish Whiskey.
Colin Neill of Pubs of Ulster, which represents 70% of pubs in NI and and a third of all hotels, said he welcomed the launch of the consultation and hoped it was "the first step in the process of bringing about effective legislation on the issue in Northern Ireland".
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