Adelaide airport gets a $50 million hotel
A new 165 room hotel for Adelaide airport could be a massive boost for tourism to South Australia.
Plans for the $50 million Atura-branded hotel, revealed by The Advertiser, show the seven storey building will go up at the northern ramp to the terminal’s second-floor check-in area.
The hotel will be directly linked to the airport's second level domestic and international check-in area.
It will include a restaurant, bar, business, centre and flexible function and meeting spaces. Airport patrons will have access to the restaurant, bar and lobby.
The company behind Atura, Event Hospitality and Entertainment, operates brands including Rydges, Event cinemas, QT Hotel and Resorts, Art Series Hotels and Thredbo Resort.
Work is expected to start in April next year with the opening scheduled in the last quarter of 2018.
The hotel is all part of a $2 billion expansion detailed in an airport masterplan released in 2014.
The plan is to triple the terminal’s size by 2044. The masterplan also has several multistorey office buildings being built into a new business area.
Adelaide Airport managing director Mark Young said the hotel will be there to cater for the airport’s growth.
Adelaide Airport’s 2015-16 annual report has domestic passenger numbers at seven million annually on the back of 1.9 per cent growth with international passenger numbers now more than 857,000 annually.
The forecast is for passenger growth to 18.1 million annually by 2034
“This really kicks off our long-term vision to create an easy, seamless connection between our aeronautical activities and our planned Airport Business District,” Mr Young told the Advertiser.
“More than 8700 people are directly employed on the airport and many business people fly to Adelaide to conduct business solely at the airport.
“We expect demand to grow as passenger numbers continue to increase and we develop our ... infrastructure.”
by Leon Gettler, October 25th 2016
