Billionaire Queensland businessman Clive Palmer has unbranded Hyatt Regency Coolum in what is set to turn into a legal battle between Australia’s fifth richest man and the Chicago-based hotel chain.
Melbourne-based AHS Hospitality has been bought by Chandler Macleod Group in a move that is expected to “provide great opportunities”, according to the company’s CEO, Michelle Loader.
A year after being struck by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake on February 22, 2011, Christchurch is poised to become one of the most exciting cities in Australasia.
Accor has become the first large tourism organisation to gain the Australian Government’s new T-Qual Accreditation.
The Star has revealed its new, AUD$100 million 4000-capacity multi-purpose events centre is set to open in Sydney in February 2013.
Quest Serviced Apartments is now open in Caroline Springs in Melbourne’s west, the Group’s 113th property in Australia.
Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group’s global President and CEO, Hubert Joly, says he is confident the company’s Ambition 2015 is firmly on track to deliver the chain another 300 new hotels and positive RevPAR gains over the next four years.
Qantas has withdrawn from the Singapore-Mumbai and Auckland-Los Angeles routes as part of a network and maintenance shake-up announced by CEO Alan Joyce in Sydney yesterday (Feb 16).
Carlson’s Chairman and former CEO Marilyn Carlson Nelson produced yet another inspirational speech yesterday (Feb 15 AEST), this time at the company’s 2012 Global Business Conference in Nassau, The Bahamas, and HM was there to capture it exclusively.
Many progressive hospitality companies are way ahead with their projections on the growing influence of women in travel. Ignore the power of the female traveller at your peril.
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