Tim Hulme, the chief executive of the British Institute of Innkeeping has told M&C he expects to launch a licensed retail academy next year.
Hulme told M&C: “There are a lot of things in our portfolio that people don’t necessarily know about.
“Our long term vision is to have a licensed retail academy which provides a training platform both for people in the trade or wanting to join. We are in advanced negotiations to set something up in London for next year. It’s a facility that doesn’t exist at the moment and could really drive the industry forward.”
Hulme has previously talked about the need for licensed hospitality to catch up with other industries in terms of recognising and developing skills.
He said: “I have talked before about needing a kind of charted institute for licensing and have drawn parallels with the construction trade which completely revolutionised the way it recognises skills. There is a big role for the BII there.”
