Has Covid highlighted that the UK is excessively reliant on the hospitality sector as a component of its economy? I read that hospitality employs approx 3 million people but it's only 8% of GDP. I have also read that Germany and some other countries were less affected economically by Covid than Britain was due to having a smaller percentage of the workforce employed in hospitality.


Hospitality in Britain has become a major part of the so called new working class since 1980ish due to a high proportion of jobs being low skill and low paid with limited career prospects. A sizeable fraction of people who work in hospitality work there through lack of choice rather than through choice.


Is there any data about the number of engineers who were working in hospitality in 2019 / early 2020?


Will Covid be a wake up call for the government to adopt economic measures to diversify the economy in the future?