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Sydney is already home to Australia s only claimed six star hotel in Crown Sydney but if all goes to plan, it will soon be home to a second.
Award-winning developers Built and joint venture partner, Irongate Group plan to begin construction next year on an $800 million property on Phillip Street that would afford panoramic, never-to-be-built-out, harbour views, including a six star hotel.
The development will include 52 Phillip Street, which Built already owns, and the next-door heritage-listed 50 Phillip Street, owned by the NSW Government and which would be availed to the joint venture partners on a long-term lease.
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12 May 2021
Qantas Group has pushed back its planned restart of international flights beyond the trans-Tasman bubble from the end of October 2021 to late December.
The decision comes after last night’s Federal Budget announcement revealed Australia’s vaccine rollout is expected to be completed at the end of 2021, meaning the international border isn’t expected to reopen until mid-2022.
Qantas Group said it remains optimistic that additional bubbles will open once Australia’s vaccine rollout is complete “to countries who, by then, are in a similar position, but it’s difficult to predict which ones at this stage”.
“This planning assumption will allow the Qantas Group – and Australia – to be ready to take advantage of pockets of tourism and trade opportunity as they emerge in a post-COVID world,” the company said in a statement.
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Subscriber only Tourism leaders have continued their attack on the Budget after being shut out of the Federal Government s spending spree. With no new measures announced on Tuesday night, Queensland tourism operators remain fearful amid dire predictions that up to a quarter of the state s 40,000 tourism businesses will go broke before the coronavirus pandemic is over. Tourism and Transport Forum CEO Margy Osmond had lobbied for a new round of JobKeeper-style payments for tourism workers affected by the pandemic but was left disappointed by the lack of new initiatives. Our tourism industry, the major ongoing economic casualty from COVID with hundreds of thousands of jobs lost so far, has missed out on any major new funding which, put simply, is a recipe for further job losses for our sector, she said.
The international border closure is also creating a huge skills shortage, as workers who would ordinarily work in the agriculture, hospitality and other low-paying sectors have been shut out.
James Goodwin, from the Australian Airports Association, said the pandemic stimulus measures were masking the broader economic effects of keeping the borders closed.
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âWe urge the Australian government to work with industry and develop a plan to slowly and safely reopen the borders, starting with more travel bubbles with other COVIDSafe nations, similar to the arrangement we have with New Zealand, which is working well,â he said.
Simon Westaway, Executive Director of the Australian Tourism Industry Council (ATIC), said that the government urgently needed to lift vaccination rates.