Tourism
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Google “catching up” after conceding mapping errors
Google Maps has agreed to work with Queenslanders to amend travel distance inaccuracies on its app.
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Inhuman punishment for Japanese hotel workers
A Japanese hotel has culled most of its staff for being too high maintenance.
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Google Maps hurting Queensland tourism, say operators
Exaggerated travel times published on Google Maps are deterring tourists from visiting regional Queensland, say operators.
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Does David and Goliath battle set precedent for Sydney Airport?
Sydney Airport’s attempt to ban hotels from using its name could be stymied by a court ruling made in 2014.
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The history of management rights – Part 2
“Management rights has had a wonderful, if not downright colourful, history."
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From Uzbekistan to the Goldie – the accom making news this week
Australia’s largest private hotel investor, Jerry Schwartz, has made his first foray into the Queensland market with the purchase of…
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Leaders scramble to pledge $220m for Kakadu revival
Kakadu will get a multi-million-dollar funding injection from the federal government – regardless of who wins this year’s general election.
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“Absurd” move to ban hotels using Sydney Airport name
Sydney Airport is threatening legal action against hotels using its name in their titles, in a move condemned by leading…
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The history of management rights – Part 1
Necessity, they say, is the mother of all invention and it appears that management rights - the revolutionary accommodation concept…
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Christmas wrap: which boutique and budget hotels are ringing accom’s changes?
Boutique hotel group Ovolo will anchor a new $50 million hospitality precinct in South Melbourne from 2020.
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