RECESSION AND THE HOTEL AND CATERING INDUSTRY - A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE

The sub-regional pattern of employment change from 1989 to 1991 is exa mined for the hotel and catering industry in Great Britain. A complex spatial pattern is identified. The effects of tourism, leisure, local economic and population change, and sub-regional economic specialisati on on employment levels in hotel and catering are considered. Further analysis is undertaken of the geography of employment change in the su b-sectors of earing places, take-aways, pubs, clubs, hotels, canteens and other tourist accommodation.