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Bad Habits: 5 things hotel marketers should stop right now April 17, 2018 • By tambo Usually, we offer insight on the hotel marketing tactics, tools and strategies you should adopt to drive more revenue to your hotel: add chat to your hotel website. Focus on this webpage as your SEO secret weapon. Try these tips on your mobile website, etc… Today, we want to turn things …

The Victorian whale-watching mecca of Warrnambool is to get a second BIG4 holiday park.

The accommodation industry is a baffling web of acronyms and idioms in which the uninitiated find themselves trapped like well-wrapped flies.

There certainly is plenty of hype in the media around the terrors of ‘combustible cladding’ these days. It really does continue to be a hot topic, front-and-centre of the agenda for most industry conferences and seminars since the Grenfell Tower disaster in London last June. So what is the ‘combustible cladding drama’ all about? First of all, the industry term …

White sandy beaches, azure seas and palm trees swaying in the gentle breeze make the Queensland coast about as close to a tropical dream as you can get. Yet trouble is brewing in paradise, as the Queensland government revealed this week that at least five of 20 resorts up and down the coast are in arrears of their state government leases.  …

Chinese visitors to Australia outnumbered New Zealanders for the first time ever last year.

A vast new leisure park and a five-star eco-resort will open on the Sunshine Coast over the next two years.

A former Aboriginal prison is to house a $40 million luxury hotel redevelopment marketed as the ultimate holiday destination.

Qantas is looking to stow American passengers in its cargo hold in a bid to lure them across the Pacific. The airline is investigating turning Airbus underbellies into lie-flat bunk rooms or exercise chambers as it targets premium economy passengers with a yen for air space. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce had begun exploring the new ‘cargo class’ concept for …

Australia’s regional tourism operators are suffering from ‘China blindness’ and are ill-prepared for Chinese tourists, says the head of NSW tourism.