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New year champagne sales on the up an encouraging sign for the Australian economy

BOTTLE SHOP owners are preparing to toast a very happy new year this evening with revellers spending big on champagne which could bode well for the economy...

Canberra hotel industry experiences boom in room numbers thanks to 'enormous confidence'

The Canberra hotel industry has experienced a large influx in the number of rooms coming online in the past 14 months. About 800 rooms have been brought...

Cutting Sunday penalty rates will hit Australia’s poorest people the hardest

MANY hospitality and retail workers will have read about the Productivity Commission’s recommendation to cut Sunday penalty rates and felt more than...

Pub sector calls last drinks on $500m-plus in sales

It has been a frantic year of buying in the pub sector and agents are picking an equally busy year ahead, Carolyn Cummins writes. Investors have poured...

Ascendas’s $1.4bn hotels portfolio for sale

Singaporean fund manager ­Ascendas has moved to offload a number of significant Australian hotels, placing its $1.4 billion ­hospitality portfolio on...

Mining boom to baristas for WA economy

West Australians have stopped making stuff — they are too busy turning their hands as baristas or taking your hotel booking. A breakdown of industry...

Luxury remains close by

Thousands of West Australians will lock up the house this festive season to explore a piece of WA. For some, accommodation will be as simple as four walls...

John Lethlean’s top meals of 2015

Memories … light the corners of my credit card. Misty Instagrammed memories of the way we were …   Think back 12 months. Thinner, younger, wealthier,...

Hotel hopping pilot still has to pay tax in Australia

A hotel-hopping Korean Air pilot was ordered to pay income tax in Australia because he had a wife and children in Brisbane. William Hughes, a commercial...

Hospitality trust's managers 'reviewing options' after unsolicited interest

Ascendas Hospitality Trust (A-HTrust) managers yesterday said they are "reviewing certain strategic options" following an unsolicited expression of interest...