BY RODERICK EIME IN BYRON BAY
Every Wednesday at 7.45am, guests at The Byron at Byron gather for Executive Chef Gavin Hughes’ farmer’s market tour.
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New flights having 'positive impact' on Cook Islands tourism
EXCLUSIVE BY RODERICK EIME IN RAROTONGA
Air New Zealand’s recently introduced direct flights from Sydney to Rarotonga are having a positive impact on tourism according to Liana Scott, Vice President of the Cook Islands Travel Industry Council and General Manager of the family-owned Muri Beach Club Hotel (MBCH).
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Call for travel industry ombudsman gets louder
BY RODERICK EIME
The banking, telecommunications and energy industries have one, but the travel industry does not. Who’s pushing for it and why?
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Reviving Aloha at Mauna Lani Bay
BY RODERICK EIME IN HAWAI’I
For many decades, the true meaning of Hawai’ian, ‘Aloha’ has been lost to commercial usage and trite tourist parlance, being used to brand everything from t-shirts to canned fruit. But in recent years, the Polynesian people of Hawai’i have sought to restore the genuine essence of this ancient term to its proper status.
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Playing Mantras on the coast
HM’s contributing editor RODERICK EIME had some explaining to do after a recent Mantra PCO famil to the New South Wales Central Coast and Hunter Valley.
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World’s ugliest hotel headed for completion?
BY RODERICK EIME
It’s been called ‘huge’, ‘ugly’ and ‘unfinished’, and finally Pyongyang’s Ryugyong Hotel may be shedding one of those attributes at least – the unfinished one.
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No injuries in Sydney hotel evacuation
BY RODERICK EIME
A fire alarm scare caused the evacuation of 168 guests from the Metro Hotel Sydney Central in the Sydney CBD early yesterday morning, Tuesday 25 October.
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Sabah at the crossroads
BY RODERICK EIME IN KOTA KINABALU
Kota Kinabalu’s signature resort complex, Sutera Harbour, is changing with the times.
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The bed bugs bite
BY RODERICK EIME
A recent compensation payout by a London hotel could lead to a rash (pun intended) of similar claims, hoteliers fear.
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Exclusive: Former bellachara Hotel to be flagged
EXCLUSIVE BY RODERICK EIME
With the announcement last week from Chara Hospitality MD, Gregg Currie, that lease negotiations had collapsed with landlords, Gerringong Developments Pty Ltd, and that he was obliged to “move on to new opportunities”, HM understands the owners, currently trading as Gerringong by the Sea, are currently in discussions with Accor Hotels for a possible management and branding deal.