Opinion

Editor Rosie Clarke takes you through the newly designed, furnished and recently opened Four Points property to experience parts of the luxury winter getaway you could win with a single click below.

Flagged properties have surrendered control of their marketing. What happens if results are poor?

Hotel search engine marketing is changing… are you ready?

The Australian Hotels Association (AHA) has welcomed today’s decision by the Fair Work Commission to introduce flexible part-time employment in the hospitality industry.

The investment property you bought ten or twenty years ago near the beach that’s always been a “nice little earner” might not be a money spinner for much longer, thanks to websites like TripAdvisor and Airbnb.

The millennial traveller has certainly disrupted the way in which hotels think about attracting potential guests. They are more digitally active, open to peer influence and seek out short-term gratification compared to previous generations of guests.

International travel is now fully-fledged. Anyone can travel anywhere, anytime they like.

Record tourism spending by visitors is welcome and sends another strong signal to economic policy-makers about the importance of the industry to the Australian economy.

As guests employ luxury hotel-like design features in their own homes, some hotels are also adopting a boutique, home-style approach to hotel design for a market seeking character and comfort. Accomnews spoke exclusively with award-winning hotel and interior design company, Dreamtime Australia Design, about how hotels are steering away from the stereotypical hotel room look.

To discover more about virtual technology and the ways hotels can, and are, using it to improve their business results, SiteMinder’s Dean Elphick spoke to Marc Charette of Work Pics.