Oaks Hotels & Resorts named as Ctrip’s Best Hotel Partner – Oceania, recording 60% growth in Chinese visitation
Leading accommodation provider Oaks Hotels & Resorts has been recognised by Ctrip – the world’s fastest growing and China’s largest online travel agency – as Best Hotel Partner, Oceania for 2018 at the annual Ctrip Awards, held in Sydney last week.
Marriott International has trained 500,000 hotel workers to recognize the signs of human trafficking
Marriott International has announced that, as of this month, it has successfully trained 500,000 hotel workers to spot the signs of human trafficking in its hotels and how to respond if they do, marking a watershed moment in the global fight against this multinational crime.
Happy holidays from The Hotel Conversation! We look back at a booming 2018 and recap our top 20 most read articles from across Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific.
One of Australia’s newest boutique hotels, Little Albion in Sydney’s Surry Hills will join the expanding hospitality group, Crystalbrook Collection Hotels and Resorts - in a deal brokered off market by CBRE Hotels’ National Director Wayne Bunz on behalf of 8Hotels.
The most recent research released by Savills Hotels reveals that Australia's average RevPAR has seen an increase of 3.9%, with Darwin (up 18.3%), Cairns (up 6.9%) and the Gold Coast (up 6.5%) the stand out performers.
Travellers are set to be spoilt for hotel choice as Australia experiences its largest ever hotel expansion with Tourism Australia and the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) joining forces in a strategic partnership to attract foreign direct investment to the tourism industry...
Australian tourism spending soars above $40 billion
The record run for Australian tourism rolls on with spending by international visitors reaching a new high of $41.3 billion for the year ending December 2017, an increase of six percent on the previous year representing an additional $2.2 billion to the Australian economy.
