Notice 4196 extends the fast food, restaurant and catering collective agreement to non-party employers on 26 October 2026. Hotel operations hold an exclusion that turns on who manages the outlet.
Two documents carry one 100,000-job pledge for young people outside education, work and training. UKHospitality sets the deadline at the end of the Parliament and the Department for Work and Pensions sets it at three years.
UKHospitality recorded the #VATsTheProblem hand-in at 10 Downing Street on 14 October 2026 with 401,250 names. The Budget is set for 28 October and the 10% rate remains a request to the Treasury.
The European Commission has signalled further flexibility for the EU Entry/Exit System with no instrument and no date. Regulation (EU) 2025/1534 carries the suspension power that expired on 7 September 2026, and ACI EUROPE and Airlines for Europe want it restored.
Buenos Aires published the RIMICABA implementing rules on 25 September 2026. City law 6950 pays up to 25 per cent of certified investment as a gross-income credit, admits hotel and gastronomy projects from USD 50,000, and splits each window fiscal quota 40/60 at USD 600,000.
The Reserve Bank of Australia ended card payment surcharging on the designated eftpos, Mastercard and Visa networks on 1 October 2026. Its Conclusions Paper put the measured price effect at about 0.1 per cent, and ATIA contests the merchant data behind the decision.
<p>Two sources told Reuters the US Federal Trade Commission is preparing action against Booking Holdings over ads that appear to direct consumers to a hotel's own site and send them to Guest Reservations. The company's quarterly report for the period ended 30 June 2026 records the July staff notice and the penalties it anticipates.</p>
UKHospitality's Budget submission asks for a £10,000 employer NIC threshold, on its own analysis of ONS data and the BRC's 82p tax-burden figure.
Dutch accommodation carries 21 per cent VAT on stays from 1 January 2026 by stay date. De Gelderlander reports Landal's German bookings 50 per cent lower, unconfirmed by Landal, and Hiswa-Recron counts 10 to 20 per cent fewer Germans at Dutch parks.
Directive (EU) 2024/825 applies from 27 September 2026 and puts the burden of demonstrating an environmental claim on the business that makes it. For a buyer, the output is a bid and contract evidence set: the scheme behind every label, the document behind every claim, and the withdrawal route when a scheme fails.
The Maldives GST Act now charges 17 per cent on the margin of overseas agents and operators, with no registration threshold. A government statement on 3 October put implementation back to April 2027, and the trade awaits confirmation.
The Senate confirmed Keith Sonderling as U.S. Secretary of Labor on 30 September 2026 by 47 votes to 41, and the AHLA filed H-2B and joint-employer priorities.
Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed AB 2721, which would have required California hotels to post notice to workers when federal immigration officers held reservations on the premises. AAHOA welcomed the veto.
Anglesey, Gwynedd and Conwy stopped work on the Welsh visitor levy, and UKHospitality cites Oxford Economics on a 33,000-job risk from a levy in England.
Jenny Gilruth writes to the UK Government and Calum Kerr writes to the Prime Minister, both asking for a 10 per cent hospitality VAT rate at the Budget.
The BRC analysis commissioned from Flint Global records hospitality at 82p per pound of profit against a 50p sector average, with a £22.9 billion tax bill.
Anglesey voted the overnight visitor levy down on 24 September 2026, Conwy deferred and Gwynedd delayed, in the first round of consultation under the Visitor Accommodation (Wales) Act 2025.
<p>Directive (EU) 2024/825 applies from 27 September 2026 and puts the burden of proof on hotel operators behind generic environmental claims such as green and eco-friendly.</p>
The Hotel Association of India has released the Prime Minister's message to its 2026 Hoteliers' Conclave, with the industry's three asks and the association's own room count.
ABTA and UKinbound placed 88.5 billion pounds of GVA, 1.4 million jobs and three cost requests before MPs at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.
The Commission's 28 September 2026 DMA factsheet and HOTREC's same-day review, set out for the record: off-platform prices leave the BSB eligibility test, the Extranet price labels come off, and a ranking update is due.
Hotel MOTTO, the 91-room boutique hotel on Mariahilfer Strasse in Vienna's 6th district, dates its fifth anniversary to 1 October 2026 and reports its own five-year counters.
The Environmental Protection Agency published a final rule on 17 September 2026 that repeals the emission guidelines for existing steam generating units and the carbon capture standards for modified coal units and new base load combustion turbines. The rule takes effect on 16 November 2026, and comment on the concurrent proposal closes on 2 November.
An eHotelier Insights column on Urban Cowboy, read against the brand's own pages: 42 rooms across 13 Catskills buildings, eight Nashville suites, sixteen Denver suites and an in-house design studio.
The European Commission fined Google 890 million euros on 23 July 2026 and ordered fair ranking for third-party services. Google had already reported a 30 percent fall in free direct booking clicks.
FEHGRA president Daniel Prieto asked the national government to bring back a Decreto 814-style mechanism that offsets part of employer contributions against VAT, at no additional fiscal cost.
Wales will cut business rates by 30 percent for hospitality, leisure and visitor-economy premises under £51,000 in rateable value from 1 April 2027. UKHospitality Cymru welcomed the cut and asked for an exemption from the surcharge on larger premises.
