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Our Resolve. Your Resolution.

Legal support for the tourism, leisure and hospitality sector

The tourism and leisure industry plays an important role within the Yorkshire region’s economy, and we are proud to work with a diverse range of businesses operating within this vibrant sector.

Hotels, pubs, restaurants, holiday parks, and other tourism and leisure businesses face a unique set of legal, regulatory, and operational challenges—and our specialist team is ideally positioned to help you navigate them.
We offer a multi-disciplinary team with a strong track record in providing practical, commercially focused legal advice to businesses across a wide range of tourism, leisure and hospitality businesses.

Our solicitors regularly support those who are expanding, selling or launching a new business in the sector, as well as those who are facing unexpected legal issues. We provide sector-specific knowledge and legal expertise to support you, and keep you well informed throughout the whole process.

Hospitality clients we work with

  • Holiday parks, lodges and campsites
  • Pubs, cafés, restaurants and catering businesses
  • Hotels, B&Bs and holiday lets
  • Visitor attractions and entertainment venues

How we can help

Our multi-disciplinary team brings together specialists in commercial property, employment, licensing, contracts, dispute resolution, as well as business expansion, joint ventures and corporate transactions. We will discuss your needs and bring in the right team to provide the legal expertise needed.

  • Buying, selling or leasing premises
  • Hotel and leisure park expansions
  • Licences and restrictive covenants
  • Commercial contracts (including franchises, supplier and customer contracts)
  • Employment contracts, handbooks and seasonal workforce planning
  • Staff disputes, grievance procedures, dismissals and settlement agreements
  • Buying or selling a business or premises
  • Mergers, partnerships and joint ventures
  • Shareholder agreements and exit strategies
  • Supplier and customer contracts, including resolution of disputes