New Zealand’s first Hotel Indigo opening in Auckland
The Auckland CBD will welcome New Zealand’s first 225-room Hotel Indigo in 2021, with IHG officially confirming an agreement with property development company Ninety Four Feet for a new $250m, 41-storey, mixed-use development at 51 Albert Street.
New $65m Sudima Auckland Hotel opening next to New Zealand International Convention Centre
Sudima Hotels has announced a new four and a half star hotel in the heart of Auckland’s hospitality and events precinct expected to open late next year, opposite the highly anticipated New Zealand International Convention Centre.
New Zealand's tourism boom waiting for new hotels Dean Humphries Colliers International
New hotel supply is the main issue holding back New Zealand’s booming tourism sector, with the industry struggling to add more hotel inventory in key tourism regions, despite New Zealand’s record 3.7 million international visitors in the last year.
Wellington's new DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel has opened its doors - converting an historical CBD building constructed in 1928 into a four and a half star luxury hotel.
Auckland CBD Best Western Hotel sold Dean Humphries Colliers International
The 120-room Best Western President Hotel, less than 500m from the site of the New Zealand International Convention Centre, has become the first freehold hotel to sell as a going concern in Auckland’s CBD in five years.
With the future for hospitality in Auckland looking bright, AccorHotels is set to debut its latest property, the 130-key SO Sofitel Auckland in October 2018.
Queenstown and Auckland record strong RevPAR growth
Savills Hotels has reported that New Zealand wide RevPAR has increased 9.7%, with Queenstown and Auckland continuing to perform strongly recording RevPAR growth of 18.6% and 8.0%, respectively.
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.
A brand new five-star boutique hotel being created as part of one of Auckland’s tallest and most luxurious residential towers in central Auckland, The Pacifica, is being marketed for sale by Warren Hutt and Peter Hamilton of CBRE for developers Hengyi Pacific.
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.
