Jersey Hospitality Association

20/10/2026

🎉 A BIG WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST JHA MEMBERS! 🎉

Our JHA family keeps growing, and we're delighted to welcome some fantastic businesses into the Jersey Hospitality Association the past month! 💙

👏 A very warm welcome to our newest members:

🌟 The Wave Beach Restaurant
🌟 Blakes King Street
🌟 Cultura JE
🌟 Eric Young Orchid Foundation

And we're equally delighted to say WELCOME BACK to two familiar faces! 🥂

💙 Seascale Hotel & Restaurant The Seascale, Gorey
💙 Samphire Jersey

It's wonderful to see both new and returning businesses recognising the value of being part of Jersey's united hospitality community.

Every new member brings something unique to the table, strengthening our collective voice, creating new connections and helping us champion the industry we're all so passionate about.

To all our new and returning members – thank you for being part of the JHA! We're excited to work alongside you and continue building a stronger, more vibrant and sustainable future for Jersey's hospitality and tourism industry.

🤝 Not yet a JHA member? There's never been a better time to get involved, connect with fellow businesses and be part of the conversation shaping our industry's future.

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Founded in 1957, the Jersey Hospitality Association (JHA) stands as the independent voice of our island’s hospitality industry, proudly representing over 200

20/10/2026

Our Co-CEO Marcus Calvani spoke to ITV Channel TV about why the Visitor Economy is missing from the Common Strategic Policy. In response, the Government said it is "already investing in the visitor economy through Visit Jersey and delivering the Visitor Economy Strategy".

We welcome that commitment to the Visitor Economy Strategy, a strategy this Association helped to write, but Visit Jersey's published accounts sadly show the Government’s investment going the other way.

When Visit Jersey was created in 2015, its core grant was £5 million, which would be worth £7.46 million today. Its core grant is now £4.72 million, so it has lost more than a third of its value in real terms, and its accounts confirm that funding for 2027 has not yet been agreed.

Visit Jersey's grants of £6.75 million in 2025 only reached that level because of a temporary £2 million that ends in December. Fixed costs take just over half of the core grant, leaving the other half to marketing. Unless the £2 million is replaced, the money for marketing the Island would fall by almost half, from £4.43 million to around £2.3 million, in the very year Jet2 trebles its seats to Jersey.

That would leave Jersey investing about £22 per Islander in marketing the Island, against roughly £225 per resident in Malta as an example, and less than 1% of what visitors spend here.

Even the £10 million a year the Association has long called for would reinvest under 3% of visitor spending, against 4% in Malta.

The Common Strategic Policy may not list every sector, but it finds room for financial services, farmers and fishers, sport, and even medical technology and biotechnology. That is why an industry Ministers describe as one of their three economic priorities deserves at least a line.

If Government of Jersey is delivering the Visitor Economy Strategy, the 2027 Budget is the place to show it. 

The States Assembly - Jersey’s elected parliament debate the Common Strategic Policy on 10th November and the Budget on 8th December.

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19/10/2026

Fifty-five years ago, Government of Jersey’s economic adviser warned that the Island depended too heavily on a single industry, which back then was tourism. As Kevin Keen OBE reminded us last week when he shared a page from that survey, the warning still stands, only now the basket has changed.

In his latest article, our Co-CEO Marcus Calvani asks whether Time to Win, the Government’s plan for financial services, can truly win without the Visitor Economy. He draws on the Time to Win expert panel, Statistics Jersey’s own wellbeing figures and Powell’s survey to make the case for a Time to Win for the whole Island, with the Visitor Economy recognised as part of the platform every sector stands on.

Essential reading ahead of the States Assembly - Jersey’s elected parliament debate on the Common Strategic Policy on 10th November, and our Trade-Talk Breakfast with Deputy Gerald Voisin and Senator Alan Maclean on 23rd November.

Why the Island's future needs more than one basket, and why the Visitor Economy is critical to it. Over the last few weeks, in three articles, I have argued that Jersey's Visitor Economy is skilled, undervalued and all but absent from the two documents that will shape this Island for the next four y

15/10/2026

Visit Jersey has been granted an extra £500,000 in government funding to boost its marketing and help fill additional airline seats secured for next year. The top-up grant, approved by the Economic Development Minister Gerald Voison, will be funded from the Economy Department’s 2026 underspends. ...

15/10/2026

Three small hotels, £950,000 a year more just to keep the doors open, and none of that is greed, it is the cumulative cost of policy landing on businesses that have nowhere left to absorb it. Alex Polizzi says it plainly to MPs here, and Jersey operators are living exactly the same story, which is why we have spent the last few years warning our Government about where the cost base was heading.

The new Common Strategic Policy rightly commits to a plan to reduce the cost of doing business, yet the Budget that sits alongside it still offers hospitality very little and even puts duty up again, so the plan cannot remain a promise for later.

We are actively working with Ministers to identify the levers that sit firmly within the Island's own control, from wages and duty to fees, transportation, utilities, tax, permits and regulation, and we are ready to help make sure that plan contains the specific, local changes that will make a real difference before more businesses are lost.

These ongoing rises have left our Island with a value deficit that visitors and Islanders alike can feel, and it needs to be fixed now.

12/10/2026

A PROUD MOMENT FOR JERSEY AND OUR FELLOW ISLANDS! 🇯🇪

We’re absolutely delighted to see Jersey ranked 5th in the Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards 2026!

This is something our entire hospitality and visitor economy can be incredibly proud of. To every one of our JHA members, their teams and the countless people who work tirelessly to make Jersey such a special place to visit, this recognition belongs to ALL of you!

From our hotels, restaurants, cafés and attractions to our local producers, suppliers and everyone working behind the scenes, this is 100% a collective achievement. It’s your passion, dedication and commitment to delivering exceptional experiences that make the difference. And to our friends at Visit Jersey for putting us all on the map and raising awareness of Jersey as a great destination to visit 👏👏👏

A huge congratulations also to our friends in Guernsey 🇬🇬, taking 2nd place, and the Isle of Man 🇮🇲, securing 10th! Three incredible islands, all recognised among the top ten and what perfect timing! We’re looking forward to bringing representatives from all three islands together here in Jersey in early November to explore how we can collaborate, share ideas and collectively strengthen our island visitor economies.

Different islands. Shared ambitions. Extraordinary potential. Congratulations to everyone involved. Let’s keep building on what makes our islands so special!

Read the full Condé Nast Traveller rankings here:

From Brazil to Indonesia, these are the island hideouts you voted as your favourites

12/10/2026

Our Co-CEO's Ana Calvani and Marcus Calvani’s third article, endorsed by our Chair Malcolm Lewis, asks a simple question of the proposed Common Strategic Policy and the draft Budget: has Jersey forgotten its Visitor Economy?

Our industry is growing again after years of decline. The article sets out, with a source for every figure, what the Budget does to that recovery, and four practical steps the States Assembly can take before 8th December:

- continuing route development;
- funding Visit Jersey properly in 2027;
- freezing alcohol duty;
- committing now to separate duty rates for licensed premises and shops.

We will put the question to the Minister for Sustainable Economic Development, Deputy Gerald Voisin, and the Minister for Treasury and Resources, Senator Alan Maclean, at our Trade-Talk event on 23rd November. We would encourage every member to read the article before then and join us on that morning.

Why? With our industry finally on the up, the answer cannot wait until 2028. Last week, in two parts, Ana and I set out why two of the claims routinely made about our industry, that hospitality is unskilled work and that Jersey suffers from a ‘product deficit’, are both wrong, and why both come ...

08/10/2026

Members 👀🚨📣 Connections create opportunities! 🤝
Don't miss this month's JHA Network Waterfall at Beresford House Jersey
Connect, collaborate and grow your business alongside fellow hospitality and visitor economy professionals.
📩 RSVP by this Friday to Julia Williams at [email protected]

07/10/2026

How much is Jersey's Visitor Economy actually worth?

In the second part of his article, Marcus Calvani, our Co-Chief Executive Officer, argues that the honest answer is that nobody knows, because the 3.2% of GVA usually quoted covers accommodation and food service alone, and the Island's two official estimates of what visitors spend in its hotels and restaurants were between £30m and £100m apart last year and moved in opposite directions.

He also looks at what the Isle of Man's £433m figure really represents, and makes the case that Jersey should stop estimating its Visitor Economy from surveys and start measuring it.

Part two of two: the measurement error underneath the 'unskilled' and 'product deficit' claims. Before we begin, an apology, of sorts.

05/10/2026

'Unskilled' and 'product deficit' are two things said about our industry so often that they now pass largely unchallenged.

In the first of two articles, Marcus Calvani, our Co-Chief Executive Officer, sets out why he and Ana Calvani believe both are wrong: the skill is hidden because good service is designed to look effortless, and the Island's real problem is a value deficit driven by cost rather than a shortage of quality product.

It is well worth the time of anybody who works in this industry, and of anybody with a hand in shaping policy for it.

Part two follows on Wednesday.

Part one of two: two regular claims about Jersey's Visitor Economy, and why both are wrong. Two claims are made about our industry often enough that they now pass largely unchallenged.