Articles tagged “melbourne”

Daily Lodging Report

Taylor Swift Concerts Break Hotel Records in Australia

In February 2024, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, experienced record hotel occupancy and rates, attributed to Taylor Swift's Eras tour, with significant yearly increases in occupancy, average daily rates, and revenue per available room.

Airlines

Turkish Airlines Makes Australian Debut – Should Qantas Be Worried?

Competition is heating up in the land Down Under, as the world’s most connected airline enters the Australian market for the first time.

Turkish Airlines Makes Australian Debut – Should Qantas Be Worried?

Hotels

Standard International to Debut New Hospitality Brand, The StandardX

Standard International is trying to take lessons from its successes 25 years ago and apply them to its latest brand today.

Standard International to Debut New Hospitality Brand, The StandardX

Daily Lodging Report

Ritz-Carlton Properties in Melbourne and Perth Up for Sale

The Ritz-Carlton hotels in Melbourne and Perth are being sold for approximately $500 million, attracting bids from wealthy Australians and offshore investors.

Tourism

World’s Longest Locked-Down City, Melbourne, Starts to Lift Restrictions

Six lockdowns, 262 days. This one for the record books is nothing anybody in this Oz city of five million is particularly proud of. Restrictions start to lift on October 22, and the city is cheering as it waits for the return of visitors and normal.

World’s Longest Locked-Down City, Melbourne, Starts to Lift Restrictions

Online Travel

Skift Travel Megatrend for 2016: Smart Cities Are Now Platforms

Cities often tell us more than we know what to do with, but with the right thinking this surfeit of intelligence can be turned into an exceptional opportunity to distinguish destinations.

Skift Travel Megatrend for 2016: Smart Cities Are Now Platforms

Meetings

Melbourne Convention Bureau CEO on Marketing a City’s Intellectual Capital

Melbourne illustrates the business potential of sharing knowledge industry networks between city governments, convention bureaus, local businesses and residents to co-create next generation conferences.

Melbourne Convention Bureau CEO on Marketing a City’s Intellectual Capital

Ground Transport

How Melbourne Transit’s ‘Dumb Ways to Die’ Won the Internet

It's rare to see a transit agency that takes a chance on anything, let alone a PSA about danger. Here's to giving government agencies more leeway.

How Melbourne Transit’s ‘Dumb Ways to Die’ Won the Internet

Online Travel

Melbourne’s ‘Remote Control Tourist’ Shows Potential of Wearables in Tourism

Even if Google Glass does not take off in its current form, wearables are here to stay. This campaign, though unwieldy from a usability perspective, will help show the potential of this technology and its application in travel and the marketing of it.

Melbourne’s ‘Remote Control Tourist’ Shows Potential of Wearables in Tourism

Hotels

Melbourne’s record-breaking new tower to include six-star hotel

Melbourne constantly lives under the shadow of it's rival Sydney, but in this case Sydney will be feeling the shadow of Melbourne's extreme tower.

Melbourne’s record-breaking new tower to include six-star hotel