Check in! – hotel highlights across South Pac

The Blue Swan Daily brings you a round up of the latest key hotel news from across the South Pacific.

• Tourism WA launches ‘Hotel Perth’ marketing campaign in partnership with Helloworld
• Gold Coast Tourism: Hotel occupancy up 2.9% in Jan-2018
• AccorHotels to open dual branded hotel at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport
• 8Hotels opens 150 room hotel at Sydney Airport
• Brisbane’s newest hotel is the face of boom, says Minister

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Tourism WA launches ‘Hotel Perth’ marketing campaign in partnership with Helloworld

Tourism WA launched (Feb-2018) ‘Hotel Perth’ a new marketing campaign focusing on selling Perth as a holiday destination on Australia’s East Coast. The aim of the campaign is to showcase Perth as an affordable place for a holiday, by offering multi-night deals for hotels in three categories – under AUD200 (USD155), under AUD300 (USD210) and ‘luxury’ of AUD300 (USD210) and over – in partnership with Helloworld. The campaign will be integrated across television, print, public relations, content, digital, social and electronic direct mail and runs until the end of Mar-2018.

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Gold Coast Tourism: Hotel occupancy up 2.9% in Jan-2018

Gold Coast Tourism reported (27-Feb-2018) Gold Coast hotel occupancy rose to 83.4% in Jan-2018, up 2.9ppts. Gold Coast Tourism CEO Martin Winter said it was pleasing to see such a strong first month, coming off “some favourable visitation figures” late in 2017. Mr Winter said: “Many of our industry members are telling us they have experienced one of their busiest summers ever, so the figures seem to be painting a similar picture”.

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AccorHotels to open dual branded hotel at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport

Melbourne Tullamarine Airport partnered (01-Mar-2018) with AccorHotels to construct a “dual branded”, 464 room hotel at the airport’s new ‘The Hive’ property precinct. The development includes a budget three star Ibis Styles hotel and four star Novotel branded hotel. Melbourne Airport chief of property Linc Horton commented: “Currently our on airport hotels are operating at significant capacity year round so it is crucial we expand our hotel amenity”.

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8Hotels opens 150 room hotel at Sydney Airport

8Hotels opened (28-Feb-2018) the Felix Hotel Sydney at Sydney Airport. The 150 room hotel features a cocktail bar, 24 hour F&B outlet, outdoor rooftop cinema, views over the airport’s domestic runways and a ‘Sky Lounge’ featuring communal and individual work spaces.

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Brisbane’s newest hotel is the face of boom, says Minister

Tourism Industry Development Minister Kate Jones believes the opening of the new AUD600 million FV by Peppers hotel in Fortitude Valley was evidence Brisbane is on the cusp of a hotel boom. Ms Jones said: “The opening is a vote of confidence in Queensland’s tourism industry and sets an impressive new benchmark in Brisbane’s quality hotel offering. This year there are eight new hotels opening in Brisbane including FV by Peppers. The confidence in our state and in Brisbane as a tourism hot spot is buoyed by record visitor figures. Last year we saw 7.9 million visitors to Brisbane – that’s an average increase of just under 14% year-on-year in the domestic market and 4.6% increase in the international market.”