Corrections

Alistair Clark, chairman of Scotland's Hotels of Distinction, has pointed out that Caterer has twice muddled "millions" and "billions" recently.

The amount spent in September by British tourists abroad totalled £2.9b, not £2.9m as reported (Caterer, 15 November, page 7). As Clark said, if it were £2.9m this would have amounted to just 47p per visitor per trip.

The same confusion resulted in Accor's 3,600 hotels boosting turnover during the first nine months of 2001 to £2.35m (Caterer, 15 November, page 7). The correct figure is £2.35b.

Tim Savage, the Le M‚ridien executive who addressed the International Recruitment conference last week (22 November, page 64), has e-mailed us with a clarification. He said that he did not say "many" of those attending a Le M‚ridien conference dismissed a young manager who wanted to complete an MBA by the time he was 30 as an "impudent upstart", only that "some" of them did.

Savage also mentioned he is human resources director, not human resources manager, at Le Méridien. We are happy to make both these points clear.

In a story on Luxury Hotel Partners (Caterer, 8 November, page 8), we referred in the headline to the firm as an "SLH consortium". It isn't. Luxury Hotel Partners is a division of Hill Goodridge & Associates, which runs Small Luxury Hotels as a separate operation.

Caterer has a policy of correcting errors and making clarifications wherever possible. Please contact news editor David Harris at david.harris@rbi.co.uk