Australian hotels say COVID-19 quarantine contracts far from a licence to print money
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Quarantine contracts have provided business for otherwise-empty Australian hotels.
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Hotel quarantine is now extremely costly for returning Australians and millions of dollars of that cash has flowed through to the upended hotel industry but hotel owners say it is just a drop in the bucket of what has been lost due to COVID-19.
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State government tenders reveal hotel quarantine contracts are have been worth $1-7 million
The Accommodation Association says hotel room revenue in Sydney s CBD has fallen 70 per cent, even including quarantine income