Industry
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What are the latest door lock developments?
Tongues and grooves may have ruled for two thousand years, but hotel door locks are now all about waves.
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View from The Hill: With an abundance of caution, Palaszczuk puts out the unwelcome mat to Sydneysiders
The PM wants targeted responses to outbreaks, not nuclear options. His approach rests on an optimistic assumption – that limited…
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Op-Ed: The most important hotel ‘salesperson’ right now is working behind your front desk
Here are 5 principles for hospitality excellence to help hoteliers see the front desk as a revenue-generating position, not an…
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Op-Ed: Talent tips for employers facing new challenges with JobKeeper reductions
As Australia comes to term with a second wave of COVID-19 cases, the federal government has announced JobKeeper will be…
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Op-Ed: How you manage and adapt to this change is critical to survival
The fundamentals of hospitality industries and travel are being questioned in this crisis. The answers will define the future of…
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Melbourne’s hotel quarantine bungle is disappointing but not surprising. It was overseen by a flawed security industry
To put it plainly, the Victorian government used an industry with a long history of non-compliance with minimum standards for…
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Is your hotel sales team ready for the transition from fishing to hunting sales leads?
After the tidal wave of cancellations and postponements in March, followed by an eerily quiet April and May when many…
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No big bounce: 2020-21 economic survey points to a weak recovery getting weaker, amid declining living standards
The picture of economic recovery painted by Prime Minister Scott Morrison is looking like a mirage. The 22 leading economists…
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Are backpacker hostels going extinct?
Skyrocketing unemployment is pushing school leavers into higher education next year rather than taking a gap year, which means backpacker…
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Vital Signs: COVID-19 recession is different – and we need more stimulus to deal with it.
By September, we may well have largely dealt with the public health aspects of the pandemic. But the economic recovery…
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