The AHA NSW has announced the winner of this year’s ‘Rockin’ the Puburbs’ live music competition, with inner-west alternative five-piece Spruced Moose topping the chart. Now in its second year, the competition is all about supporting live music in pubs, and open to any NSW-based pub act that performs at least one original song. “Many […]
The NSW branch of the Australian Hotels Association has announced launch of Hospitality Legal P/L, leveraging its strengths in the industry to offer nationwide services to hospitality employers. The AHA NSW has traditionally provided specialised legal advice and services relating to hospitality, predominantly to State members. Hospitality Legal (HL) will be headed up by AHA
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Legends of the business of pub walking tours have joined forces to expand the concept beyond Sydney and even pubs, with the evolved business of Dave’s Pub Tours. In 2010 Gregg Peek began Peek Tours, and gaining momentum, in 2015 the business combined with Dave Phillips’ success with Dave’s Brewery Tours, to form Dave’s Pub
The Australian Hotels Association Victoria celebrated last week’s International Women’s Day with a networking lunch at The Langham, sponsored by Tabcorp. The AHA (Vic) coordinates the Women’s Network, now in its second year, aiming to create occasions for like-minded women to come together to listen, speak and meet new people. Encouraging the swapping of stories,
After years fighting for Sydney’s right to party, Keep Sydney Open is garnering support for a push to take the plight of the global city into parliament. The controversial 1:30 lockout and 3am closure laws were introduced in February 2014, cementing a Government view that the night economy in Sydney was not important. Framed as
The VCGLR has just released a revised edition of its Design Guidelines, intended to help pub operators design and maintain safe and profitable venues. The second edition of the Guidelines are not part of any formal process, but are the considered analysis of principles based on architectural and town planning expertise. As such the best-practise
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A fire at the famous Woolshed Pub in Melbourne’s Docklands has closed the business indefinitely, as operators assess the severely damaged building. On Friday afternoon around 3pm smoke was spotted coming from the roof of the hotel. Emergency services were called, and arrived to find the waterfront structure well ablaze. It took two hours to
Australian Hotels Association NSW President Scott Leach has been voted National President at a special meeting this morning. Delegates assembled in Melbourne to vote on the position, left vacant by the colligate departure of Peter Burnett AM, following three years’ service. Leach was elected to be the new President unopposed and unanimously, and will assume
While UK pubs continue to close at the rate of around 30 per week, one new public house is doing its tiny share for the people of Kent. Recently claiming the crown of Britain’s smallest watering hole, the Little Prince in Margate, Kent is just six by eleven feet (6.0 m²) and holds just six
The annual BRW List of Australia’s richest people was released on Friday, and despite the hotel industry’s wave of success and the demise of mining, results were mixed and hotelier rankings down. The soft-spoken octogenarian Len Ainsworth continued his legacy as the richest man in the hospitality industries to make the list, buoyed by the
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