Newcastle Tourism has celebrated the “best of the best” in the region at the 2025 Newcastle Hospitality & Tourism Awards, with Hunt Hospitality taking two top honours. The Newcastle Tourism Industry Group’s (NTIG) Awards were held at Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club on Monday night, presenting winners across 12 categories in recognition of “exceptional talent, dedication […]
Humble hotelier and son of the Hunter Stephen Hunt has been awarded the title of NSW Business Leader of the Year 2021. The state-wide title follows up recognition by Business NSW as the Business Leader of the Year for the Hunter Region, and second place in the Most Innovative Companies Award in the Entertainment, Tourism,
Hunt Hospitality has a little more Hunter with acquisition of the Imperial Hotel at Maitland, in time for a local get-together. Built 1851, a block from the Hunter River, the Imperial Hotel was established back when goods were still delivered via small barges and vessels plying the waterway. In 1994 it became Shenanigans at the
The ultra-waterfront Harrington Hotel has been sold by the Nixon family to the pub coast king, Stephen Hunt. Having purchased the pub in 1998, the Nixons have sold the Hotel in line with market guidance, sources say was $15 million, to the Stephen Hunt-led organisation. “This asset has been in the same family for over
Stephen Hunt has produced a video explaining the benefits of his group’s Employee Assistance Program for workers and the venue. In his role as managing director of Hunt Hospitality International, Stephen Hunt periodically presents informative updates on the workings and processes of the group. This recently brought a short video (below) on a program Hunt
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The dynamic Hunt Hospitality has agreed to sale of its large-format Lakeside Village Tavern at Raymond Terrace, to the growing stable under Nicholas Quinn. Stephen Hunt’s pub group has been refreshing the books since the new financial year, to optimise opportunities where they are seen. In September the call was put out to further build
A long and hard-fought sales process on the big Kent Hotel has ended in a record price for the Newcastle region of around $25 million, and new owner in growing local vehicle SJH Hotel Fund. Peter Hunt bought the Kent freehold in 2002, and his son Stephen has long managed it operationally, while simultaneously building
Newcastle-based hotelier Stephen Hunt has been courting investors to double the size of his hotels fund to $50 million, following strong growth and robust returns. SJH Hotel Fund, run by Hunt Hospitality, owns hotel trusts around the Lakeside Village Tavern and Duke of Wellington freeholds, and Seabreeze Hotel lease, with a deal pending on the
Central coast pub doyens the Hunt family have put to market their high-performing The Kent, offering up one of the biggest NSW hotel businesses north of Sydney, amid Newcastle’s ongoing renaissance. Built 1924, The ‘Royal’ Kent dominates a corner of Hamilton main drag Beaumont Street, a few kilometres west of the Newcastle CBD. The multi-level
Hunt Hospitality is executing a strategic sell-down to capitalise on the high level of interest in the Hunter Region, kicking off with sale of the award-winning Rutherford Hotel to the growing O’Hara-Malloy collection. The pub is a large-format broad business on 2,553sqm in Rutherford, around 40 minutes’ north-west of the Newcastle CBD. It boasts a
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