Backpackers are hiking their way back to Australia, bringing with them life for the hospitality industry. Department of Home Affairs data shows that during the peak of COVID across the financial year 2020-2021, working holiday maker visas had plummeted to less than 40,000, the combined effects of which ended trading for many venues. However, in […]
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A sports bar pub in historic Salamanca has been at the forefront of a debate over preserving “character and heritage” while being a vibrant part of an entertainment precinct. The Pavilion at Salamanca is in an old three-storey former warehouse in the seaside tourist hotspot in Hobart. Not aware of the strictness of local council
Hospitality businesses are feeling mixed reactions to the start of new laws decriminalising personal use amounts of all drugs, in the nation’s capital. In 2020 the ACT legalised personal use amounts of cannabis, and the following year the drug bill was introduced to the ACT Legislative Assembly. In what has been widely viewed as another piece of
Britain’s largest pub group has announced the introduction of controversial ‘surge’ pricing on drinks at its busiest venues, with inflation-tainted patrons not happy. Stonegate Group keeps 4,500 venues, including chains Yates’s and the Slug & Lettuce. In the six months prior to April this year the company reported a loss of 23 million pounds (AU$45
Tech-based booking system ResDiary has analysed customer trends across key public holidays to help hospitality businesses balance costs for the upcoming inaugural King’s Birthday. Public holidays can be a mixed blessing for hospitality, with the potential for an influx of customers having to be weighed against higher operating costs. In early May the British empire
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Newcastle’s Queens Wharf Hotel has won a battle with noisy locals over its live music, with a ruling by Liquor & Gaming dismissing the complaint. Stretching out over the water at Wharf Rd, the Hotel has been in operation since 1988 and is particularly popular with students in Steel City, hosting DJs and bands in
The Albanese government and Treasurer Jim Chalmers have handed down the Budget for 2023, bringing economic prudence in the wake of the pandemic, and positives for employment and hospitality. The government expects economic growth to slow from 3.25 per cent this financial year to 1.5 per cent next year, while inflation is also expected to
The ACCC has ruled Australia’s largest publican is allowed to proceed with the acquisition of the Beachfront Hotel. News came in May 2022 that Endeavour Group (ASX:EDG) had signed to buy the popular hangout just north of Darwin. The deal was one of the first for the board of the newly-listed entity. “It is an
Brisbane City Council is understood to be reviewing the lease agreements on prime CBD locations with Mantle Group, pending the results of the investigations into its controversial staff payment arrangements. Last month news emerged that the Mantle Group had dismissed hundreds of employees, supposedly to avoid paying entitlements such as penalty rates. This development came
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The twice-annual beer excise is set to ratchet up again this week, finding continued cries for leniency as Australia clocks undesirably high inflation and marks the biggest annual beer tax increase in decades. The excise duty is the tax per litre of alcohol and the rate for beer is indexed every February, and again every
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