Hospitality News & Trends

The listed Event Hospitality & Entertainment has an ambitious development pipeline that could see it build at least two major towers in George St in the heart of Sydney’s CBD.

Colliers International has announced that The Woolbrokers Arms Hotel in Pyrmont will be publicly auctioned on 29 November, with price hopes of $11 million. The heritage-listed building sits on a 442-square-metre site, on the corner of …

Ask the concierge for a room with a view and you’re unlikely to be escorted underground. Unless, of course, you’re just outside Shanghai. The InterContinental Hotels Group is on the cusp of opening a new …

The carve-up of late construction tycoon Len Buckeridge’s property empire is accelerating with Singapore’s Hiap Hoe positioning to buy his company’s Aloft Perth hotel, and an office complex, for more $100 million, as attention turns to his business holdings.

Starbucks has opened its first container store in Taiwan, a two-storey cafe designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. Kuma, who built Starbucks Japan’s Fukuoka store and is the exterior architect for the upcoming Starbucks Reserve …

Chinese chemical-based consumer goods company Ousia Investments, a recent investor in Australian real estate, has signed agreements with Marriott International to develop a hotel in west Melbourne.

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The internationally backed hotelier Crystalbrook Collection has made its first foray into Sydney, buying the 35-room Little Albion Guest House in Surry Hills for an aggressive price of about $30 million.

A long-neglected wedding chapel in a prime Frankston spot has been renovated and restored ahead of being sent to auction.