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CALLIGEROS CALLS TIME AT THE BELLEVUE

Calligeros Hotel Group has listed an icon of Sydney’s eastern suburbs, the Bellevue Hotel, on the boundary of the affluent suburbs of Paddington and Woollahra. The thumping two-storey pub – known locally as ‘The Bellie’ – has been on the

FLOWER GROWS SETTLERS WITH A MOTOR INN

Veteran hotelier Alistair Flower has boosted his accommodation footprint in Port Macquarie with purchase of the adjacent and complementary Macquarie Barracks Motor Inn.   The motor inn is set on a large lot beside arterial Hastings River Drive, offering 37

THE NEW COMPLIANCE MOMENT FOR GAMING VENUES

For pubs and clubs with electronic gaming machines, one of the biggest changes under Australia's Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) reforms is not simply the reduction of the customer due diligence threshold from $10,000 to $5,000. It is what

AVC TAKES SOLOTEL’S THE BANK AND THE CLOCK

Australian Venue Co has signed for more Solotel pubs, taking Surry Hills institution The Clock and Newtown staple The Bank in the latest investor-backed deal in Sydney’s highly active market. Amalgamated Hotels P/L, freehold owner of the pubs, was founded

THOMAS HOTELS’ PLANS FOR NEW CROWS NEST PUB

Chris Thomas is homing in on potential in Sydney’s north shore, submitting plans for a new pub in the centre of Crows Nest, to be called the Royal Crow Hotel. Thomas Hotels operates two-dozen hotels across greater Sydney, from Parramatta’s