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BBC News
30-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Jersey sees 38-year drink promotion ban lifted
A 38-year ban on drink promotions in Jersey has been lifted, the hospitality association has Licensing Assembly removed the restrictions on drinks promotions in venues, after it said the ban had led to increased at home drinking and binge lift of the ban means venues are able to offer drink promotions such as happy hour and two-for-one Jersey Hospitality Association (JHA) said it welcomed the lift on guidance. Marcus Calvani from the JHA said he hoped lifting the ban on drinks promotions would give businesses more said: "So, businesses can do anything they want - it can operate in whatever capacity it wants, they still need to remain in a responsible [way] and not enticing people to drink to excess."As an establishment if you see somebody who's intoxicated who enters you shouldn't be serving them, if somebody becomes intoxicated on your premises you shouldn't be serving them and we hope that people are responsible and as human beings we look after one another." Mr Calvani said he hoped the lift would encourage more people to go said: "People can come out for our community, people will socialise and we certainly hope that the industry thrives a little bit better in very challenging times."We hope also that everybody goes out [and] has some fun, obviously behaves responsibly, but this is positive for everyone - visitors and islanders."The JHA said it wrote to the Attorney General at the beginning of 2024 to lift the restrictions of the law. It argued it had "caused a growing gap between on and off-trade prices" which had led to increased at home drinking and binge drinking. Jersey landlord Simon Soar said times had changed since the restrictions were first introduced and that it may not be viable for businesses to offer too many discounts."We're not going to see drinks promotions like they used to be decades ago because the price of margins don't exist any more and they haven't existed for a long time. "That, coupled with the fact people don't go out as much as they used to makes it a lot more difficult to make any form of profits in the industry." 'Inclusive and fair' Jo Ferbrache, who campaigns for people who do not drink alcohol, said the industry needed to make sure that there were fair deals on non-alcoholic drinks too."I think it's really important that they have the same promotions on the alcohol free offering too, so if they're going to do a two-for-one make sure that that's the same thing for those who aren't drinking, just to ensure that it's inclusive and fair," she Leather is a recovering alcoholic and is worried that the law change could encourage people to drink too said it was important for people to decide why they were going out and who they were going with."I think that it's important to just be honest with yourself around the people that you're going out with and maybe the intention of why you're drinking," she said.
BBC News
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
New festival to celebrate Jersey food
A new festival is set to take place which will celebrate food in Jersey. The Delicious Jersey Food Festival will run at Weighbridge Place, St Helier on Saturday and Sunday. There will be pop-up restaurants, Jersey musicians, a farmers' market and live cooking and Marcus Calvani, co-chief executive officers of the Jersey Hospitality Association, said the event was being held to "honour the passionate people behind Jersey's food culture". 'Magnificent celebration' The event is sponsored by the Government of Jersey and Jersey Electricity and entry is star chef Michael Caines will hold a live question and answer session at 10:00 BST on and TV chef Steven Lamb will host the demonstration and Mrs Calvani added: "With all the chefs, producers and artisans here in one place, it will be a truly magnificent celebration of Jersey food."
BBC News
20-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Summit to discuss ways to boost tourism in Jersey
Jersey's tourism industry will be the focus of a summit next leaders and politicians will discuss ways to increase the amount of money the sector contributes to the island's event will feature speakers from the tourism, travel and virtual economy industries, together with addresses from the chief minister and minister for sustainable economic day-long event, organised by the Jersey Hospitality Association (JHA), will take place on Wednesday at the Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel in St Helier. The JHA said the day would feature a discussion about whether the Visitor Economy Strategy is moving forward and whether the Future Economy Programme is leading the island in the right event will also host speakers with expertise in global business development, European tourism, virtual economics and tourism chief executives Ana and Marcus Calvani said: "This will be all about where the future opportunities of Jersey's visitor economy can come from to benefit all of us, whether it's to visit your local pub or restaurant or to bring in visitors from around the world."Visit Jersey released new figures recently that showed there were 568,000 tourists last year - 40,000 more than in from the UK contributed about 70% of visits in 2024, while 17% came from France and 3% from Germany, according to the data.
