Hospitality News & Trends

Singapore-based luxury resorts operator Banyan Tree has won the management rights to operate Lindeman Island while builder Watpac is said to have snared the construction contract for a $600 million redevelopment of the island in Queensland’s Whitsundays. 

Are they tents, igloos, cabins, or a little bit of everything?

If you ever wanted a crash pad that was stumbling distance from a pub, here is your chance. 

Melbourne-based fund manager C2 Capital has purchased Rydges Gladstone as the seed asset for a new hospitality fund in a deal worth about $5 million.

Hotels are forever trying to offer something different and unusual in a bid to attract new guests.

The Star Entertainment Group has had its future vision for the Gold Coast signed off by the state government, paving the way for the casino company and its partners to have about $9 billion worth of tourism assets across South East Queensland.

One of Asia’s wealthiest private groups, Legend Land, an associate of Worldwide Hotels, has plunged into the Sunshine State for the first time, buying Brisbane’s ibis Styles hotel in a deal worth about $100 million. 

Marriott is vying with inter­national rivals to open a St Regis property at the troubled Yuhu ­development on the Gold Coast. 

The Moroccan government plans to sell its 51 per cent stake in Marrakech’s famed La Mamounia hotel sometime in 2019, two people involved in the plan recently told Bloomberg. Named Best Hotel in the World at the 2018 …