Management rights of Brisbane's Royal Albert Hotel sold
The management rights to one of Brisbane’s landmark CBD heritage properties, the Royal Albert Hotel, has changed hands for the first time in almost two decades.
In a first step towards their single-use plastic free 2020 goal, Sudima Hotels recently became the first group of hotels in New Zealand to discontinue using plastic straws – eliminating an estimated 52,000 straws each year from going to landfill.
Minister for Planning Richard Wynne has announced planning approvals for the $450m Munro site Hotel and Apartment development that sits within Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market precinct.
Many New Zealand hotel markets are outperforming their Australian counterparts as demand for rooms continues to outstrip supply with Queenstown, Auckland and Rotorua among Australasia's top markets.
Five-star Horizon Hotel opening in Auckland next year
Auckland's new five-star Horizon Hotel will open in late 2019, bringing 303 new high-end rooms to the city centre being built alongside the New Zealand International Convention Centre.
QT Hotels which has launched two hotels in New Zealand in the past 12 months, has expanded the QT Museum Wellington Hotel by adding 18 rooms, and reveals that more are on the horizon across the country.
The leasehold interest of Sydney's Covent Garden Hotel - a Luey Family Chinatown pub icon - has been sold off-market by Ray White's Asia Pacific Director of Hotels Andrew Jolliffe.
226-key Oaks Wellington CBD hotel opening next year
Oaks Hotels & Resorts is set to make its debut in Wellington on New Zealand's North Island, announcing plans to launch Oaks Wellington next year - converting the former Colonial Motor Company Building site (originally constructed in 1923) into a contemporary 4.5 star hotel.
