LEISURE VENDING


Leisure and hospitality embrace contactless applications


The hospitality sector suffered a body blow during the pandemic suffering the biggest economic decline of all sectors, but the demand for contactless applications for the sector is expanding swiftly


hospitality over 2020 was 42% lower than 2019. In 2021 it was 21% lower than in 2019 and the industry’s share of the UK economy fell from 3% in 2019 to 2 % in 2020 and 2021. The impact on the sector came as a direct result of restrictions on trading ranging


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from forced closures and limits on opening hours to restrictions on numbers of people who could meet indoors and social distancing etc. On the labour front, between January 2020 and December 2021, the number of


workers in the sector fell by 90,000, a larger fall than in other industries and when the economy opened again in 2021, the hospitality sector faced significant staff shortages. Considering the above statistics, it’s unsurprising that the leisure and hospitality


sectors have had to adapted and reinvent themselves, and in many cases vending was available to bridge the gap providing an unstaffed food service with contactless payment as an option.


t the peak of the economic downturn, government figures put economic output in the food and accommodation sector at 90 % below pre-pandemic levels. A government research document revealed that overall, economic output for


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