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Snapping up waterfront hotels

Blue Sydney at Woolloomooloo in Sydney. Source: Supplied Hong Kong’s Ovolo Group, part of Hind Hotels & Properties, bought the 1888...

Confessions of a hotel room service employee

HAVE you ever snapped at a hotel worker for delivering your meal too late, failed to answer their repeated knocks on the door or forgotten to put the food...

Minimum wage to rise by $18.70 a week

The decision to raise the minimum wage to $640.90 a week directly affects more than 1.5 million employees in Australia. Photo: Bloomberg Joanna Mather Australia...

Lake House judged Australia's best regional hotel by Gourmet Traveller Australian Hotel Guide

For Alla Wolf-Tasker and her entire team at the Lake House Daylesford, their 30th birthday celebrations ended on a even higher note last week when the...

ResDiary from Dimmi collects dining information on restaurant customers such as their tipping habits

Dimmi chief executive Steven Premutico said the reservations platform has about 2500 restaurants on Dimmi and about a million diners every three months.Source:...

Go-ahead for $500m project in Melbourne Docklands

LISTED Singaporean group Hiap Hoe has won planning approval from the Victorian government for its $500 million-plus hotel and apartment development in...

Business push on Sunday penalties

MAJOR business groups will ­embark on a community and ­industrial campaign to cut Sunday penalty rates across a range of sectors, arguing it will increase...

Australian owners of Café del Mar embroiled in legal brawl

The planned expansion of Café del Mar in Australia has come to a halt after a legal dispute over the control of the local arm of the business. The famous...

Peter Costello calls for lower penalty rates to increase productivity

PETER Costello has called for lower penalty rates as a priority to increase productivity, while declaring Tony Abbott safe as Liberal leader amid renewed...

Israeli food mogul Strauss Group targets Australia

Ofra Strauss says Strauss Group’s vision is to see the spread and dip category growing and ‘to see more Australians eat hummus’ Source: Supplied ISRAEL’s...