Resort

The holiday season is fast approaching and there is no better time to dream about business opportunities outside the box.

A developer’s decision to withdraw plans for a $50 million eco-resort atop Rosny Hill has been hailed as a win for people power — but it’s certainly not the end for the project.

Why buy a house, when you can buy a resort?

The Chinese-controlled Club Med is looking to regain its foothold in Australia’s tourism industry after exiting Queensland’s Lindeman Island six years ago.

Queensland’s Great Keppel Island Resort is poised to be sold to offshore interests for around its $20 million asking price after years of languishing on the market along with several of the Sunshine State’s once iconic islands. 

Melbourne-based Shakespeare Property Group has swooped on the Novotel Twin Waters Resort on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast for about $100 million.

Japanese developer Sekisui House has finally won approval to develop the first major resort on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in three decades with the approval for the $900 million five-star Westin Coolum Resort & Spa at Yaroomba Beach.

Submissions relating to a controversial $100 million development on the East Coast of Tasmania close in two days amid growing concerns about the fast-tracked nature of the proposal.

Resort operators are being offered the chance to run not one, but three luxury resorts on the newly redeveloped Lindeman Island in Queensland’s Whitsundays.