Dubai is not known for holding back on spending, and when it comes to hotel launches, crunch or no crunch it pulls out all the stops – £20m worth in fact.
The Emirate needs another expensive hotel like Cairo needs more cars but, hey, why free market economics get in the way of your 2,000 room [...]
Archive for November 21st, 2008
Dubai business parties hard
Posted in Hotels, Leisure, Middle East, tagged Hotels, Leisure, Middle East, spending on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thousands of small pubs at risk
Posted in Taxes, pubs, supermarkets, tagged pre-budget, pubs, supermarkets, tax on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
High taxes and competition from cut-price supermarkets are killing small community based pubs and thousands will go bust unless we do something about it.
The Campaign of Real Ale (CAMRA) says around 7,500 (one in eight) will go bust by 2012 if the government doesn’t intervene.
It wants to see lower VAT, cuts to beer taxes and [...]