According to recent research conducted by SevenRooms, AI is being used for several purposes in 85 per cent of Australian pubs and other venues. AI is utilised across areas such as pricing, customer engagement, inventory management, staff training, menus and other data analytics, as well as reporting. While this does not replace the intuition and […]
A friendly clash has been simmering for some time between two Tasmanian pubs, who each lay claim to being Australia’s oldest continually licensed venue. Hobart’s Hope and Anchor and New Norfolk’s Bush Inn have been around since the start of the 1800s, with each firmly sticking by their stance of being Australia’s oldest, and both
Bayfield Hotel Group’s Dee Why Hotel in Sydney has taken a new marketing approach by diversifying its social media to include TikTok. The hotel is now experimenting with TikTok content thanks to the guidance of senior account manager Tash Chapman, from Papaya Agency. Chapman believes that the platform can offer a boost for pubs as
Harvest Hotels has recently unveiled two of its latest redevelopments – The Milestone Hotel in Dubbo, and The Old Pub Woy Woy. Harvest’s current portfolio encompasses 13 pubs across NSW and SA, with The Milestone and The Old Pub being two out of five redeveloped in the past year. They join the William Farrer Hotel
Newcastle icon Finnegan’s Hotel has been sold for the first time in decades, with the Hunter family handing over to established locals. Positioned prominently at the intersection of busy King and Darby Streets, opposite Newcastle Civic Park and City Hall, Finnegan’s is a handsome two-storey Art Deco hotel brimming with street appeal. It incorporates public
Last year the Inner West Council (IWC) of Sydney restirred a heritage hornet’s nest, furthering its attempt to preserve urban culture by forcing protections on old pubs under its purview. The Council’s proposal has now successfully amended planning controls, such that a total of 22 pubs have been added to the State Heritage register. These
Justice has been served on a Gladstone man who assaulted the Central Lane Hotel’s manager in 2024. At 3:30am one September morning, former truck driver Jordan Dallas King, 23, entered the hotel’s gaming area and demanded to be served a drink. The manager refused him service and continued counting the night’s takings. King repeated his
Recent research has shown that the time-honoured Aussie tradition of buying a round has declined, most likely due to a combination of a change in drinking habits, changes in technology and of course cost of living pressures. The National Australia Bank (NAB) surveyed 2,000 Australians late last year, discovering that while over half of all
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The NSW Government’s Office of the 24-Hour Economy Commissioner has created an Australian-first online B2B platform for venues, artists and players, called Neon Marketplace. A key component of the Office’s new 24-hour economy strategy, Neon Marketplace aims to facilitate collaboration between Districts – businesses, suppliers, performers and more – to support creating vibrant local districts.
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Australian Venue Co (AVC) continues to invest in Melbourne pubs, this time opening the Gardiner Hotel in Malvern while simultaneously unveiling its renovation of the Flinders Hotel on the Mornington Peninsula. Previously the old National Bank building, The Gardiner’s doors opened last Friday following a seven-month renovation to the 109-year-old building. Owned by Paul Tuddenham,
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