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About
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The British Hospitality Association has been representing the hotel, restaurant and catering industry for 100 years.
The Association exists to ensure that the views of the British hospitality industry are represented in a forceful, coherent and co-ordinated way to government and policy makers in the UK and internationally, in order that its members' businesses can flourish.
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) was established in 1907 as the Incorporated Hotel Keepers Association. In 1910 it merged with a new and entirely separate organisation called Incorporated Association of Hotels and Restaurants, taking on the latter's name.
In 1926 it became the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Great Britain, then the British Hotels and Restaurants Association in 1948 and the (ungrammatical) British Hotels, Restaurants and Caterers' Association - after the merger with Caterers' Association of Great Britain - in 1971.
It was re-named British Hospitality Association in 1992. Along the way, it lost some of its restaurant members when they broke away to form the Restaurant Association of Great Britain in 1967.
Supported by some of the industry's top independent restaurateurs, such as Prue Leith and Robert Carrier, the RAGB - later The Restaurant Association - fought exclusively for the interests of restaurants but the cost of such activity and the need to present a united front to government encouraged the merger with the BHA in 2003.
The Restaurant Association retains its own identity as a trading division of the BHA.
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