Horizon brighter for UK tourism & leisure sectors, says MHA
Around one third of staff working in guest houses, hotels, restaurants and pubs are now employed on zero hours contracts, according to the latest Travel & Tourism Survey conducted by MHA, a UK-wide association of chartered accountants and business advisors.
The contact centre of 2014 is already almost unrecognisable from the call centre of 1984, 1994, even 2004. It is hard to think of a sector which has been through more change. Yet within the next few years we will witness another revolution in the contact centre world.
Increasingly, companies are taking advantage of information on the behaviour of potential travellers to predict future behaviour, and to use these predictions to deliver better travel experiences for their customers.
Increases in demand for short breaks in London has led to widening of supply and an increasingly competitive market where agents must be savvy to protect their profit margins.