Tourism
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“We were so drunk”: the newlyweds who bought their honeymoon hotel
Londoners Gina Lyons, 33, and Mark Lee, 35, set off on a three-week backpacking adventure around Sri Lanka last December…
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‘I want to be beautiful again’: Great Keppel speaks to smitten $60m buyers
Just a month after plans were announced to divide Great Keppel Island into lots and sell them to cryptocurrency investors,…
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Home invasion: Marriott embraces share economy
Marriott International is further blurring the lines between homeshares and hotels with the announcement it will expand its London homesharing…
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Will ‘digital strip searches’ damage New Zealand’s brand?
A new law allowing Kiwi customs officers to perform ‘digital strip searches’ has hit headlines around the world and prompted…
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Breakfast ad leaves Sofitel with egg on its face
The Sofitel Brisbane has apologised for a seemingly innocuous full-page newspaper advert it ran in various magazines and newspapers over…
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Pod hotel for tropical north
Cairns may soon become the latest international tourism hot spot to accommodate its tourists in personal sleeping pods.
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Two major new resorts – and they couldn’t be more different.
Two multi-million-dollar Australian resort developments were announced this week, but that’s where the similarity ends.
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$60m gallery and retreat for former owners of troubled Jewel
A former chicken farm could be turned into a European art and sculpture gallery akin to Tasmania’s MONA as part…
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Maximum impact for leading accom conference
Experts from Google, HotelsCombined and Revinate will join a stellar line-up of speakers for the Maximum Occupancy conference at Sydney’s…
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Big eight targeted in tourism blitz
Tourism Australia and Singapore Airlines have signed an $11 million marketing deal to promote Australia to key overseas markets.
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