tourism
NSW hits in numbers to schmooze biggest spenders
A busload of tourism managers spent last week greasing the wheels of tourism trade between China and NSW as part…
Read MoreHotels chief goes on the attack at tourism awards
An Australian Hotels Association chief has used a glittering industry awards night to mount a scathing attack on WA’s state…
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Industry
Big Melon slices up competition
Chinchilla’s Big Melon pipped finalists the Big Peanut in Kingaroy, the Big Kilt of Glen Innes and Mittagong’s the Big…
Read More EXCLUSIVE: Dick Smith injects $300m into “endangered” small town accom
Australia’s best-known multi-millionaire is fast becoming a folk hero among mum-and-dad accommodation owners.
Read MoreFrom mega ships to cashing chips; accom news this week
Work has begun on a $158 million mega cruise ship terminal touted to create a $5 billion economic boom for…
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Industry
Whitsundays shark plan branded “borderline negligent”
A new five-point plan agreed by tourism, state and research leaders to manage sharks off the Whitsunday Coast has been…
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Developments
Accom events giant buys into Sydney
Asia Pacific's biggest accommodation event is coming to Sydney following a takeover of the annual HotelsWorld conference.
Read More “Deeply flawed”, “inaccurate”, “unrepresentative”: The report slammed by Airbnb
A new report concluding short-term lets are reshaping the Sydney and Melbourne housing markets has been dismissed as “deeply flawed”…
Read MoreTowering plans approved for $2 billion resort
Gold Coast tourist mecca Broadbeach will see 3,000 new hotel rooms created in a major new four-tower building plan.
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Events
Maximum Occupancy pulls biggest ever crowd with stellar line up
Record crowds, exceptional speakers and a host of new exhibitors made last week’s Maximum Occupancy conference the best in the…
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