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An incredible waste … disposable slippers add to a massive pile of waste in the hotel industry.

The dark truth about hotel slippers

I never wear them. But the housekeepers in every hotel I stay in continue to unwrap them from their plastic coverings and put them by my bed regardless.

  • Lee Tulloch

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Philip Vivian of Bates Smart outside the old Bank of China offices on York Street, and artist’s impressions of how the conversion to a hotel will look.

‘Carpet up the wall’: How this Sydney retro hotel conversion will embrace the ’70s

A former bank headquarters encapsulated the early 1970s, and its spirit is being retained in a conversion into a new lifestyle hotel.

  • Julie Power
Trevor O’Hoy when he was CEO of Fosters Group in 2005.

Green Elephant commercial building looks for peak price of $30m

Peak Equities, led by Trevor O’Hoy, is looking to sell a fully leased property in Sydney’s Green Square precinct for more than $30 million.

  • Carolyn Cummins
The Avani Mooloolaba Beach is the first new full-service hotel to hit the Sunshine Coast in 40 years.

‘Outbid every day of the week’: Why hotels are losing the war for city land

Brisbane faces a huge shortfall of hotel rooms for the 2032 Olympics. One developer has a business model that works, but he can’t get the land.

  • Marissa Calligeros
The international symbol of an unhosted short-term stay, a key lock box, in front of a home in Millers Point, Sydney.

‘It’s a sophisticated business’: New calls for regulation in the short-stay market

It was marketed as a “side hustle” to rent out the spare room, but new data shows more than half the listings with one major platform are managed by accounts with two or more properties.

  • Wes Mountain
The Trump Organisation said the tower would have been the tallest on the Gold Coast. It would not have been much taller than Q1, despite what this render image suggested.

‘Empty promises’: $1.5b Trump Tower on Gold Coast axed

The man behind a petition calling for the development to be rejected claimed victory after the deal for a luxury hotel collapsed.

  • Marissa Calligeros, Catherine Strohfeldt and William Davis
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Hotel breakfast buffets are wondrous, but they’re changing.

Why hotel breakfast buffets are shrinking (and where to find the world’s best)

Change is in the air. In many hotels, and especially at the upper end, the breakfast buffet has been reimagined.

  • Michael Gebicki
Sydney silk Brian Dooley has sold The Courthouse pub in Newtown.

Sydney silk sells Newtown’s Courthouse pub to a beer baron in a frothy $24m deal

Barrister Brian Dooley called last drinks at Newtown’s Courthouse pub. He’ll hand the keys to his thirsty tenant, pub baron Bruce Solomon, who has paid a frothy $24 million.

  • Carolyn Cummins
Pub baron Arthur Laundy paid $41 million for the Woy Woy Hotel.

Laundy snares another pub in Woy Woy; Glasshouse and Arthouse for sale

The hotel baron paid $41 million for the hotel on NSW’s Central Coast.

  • Carolyn Cummins
Hotel breakfasts are one of the biggest rip-offs in travel.

Hotel breakfasts are a big rip-off. Here’s how I get them for free

It’s eggs on toast, not eye fillet – so why are we sometimes charged upwards of $60 a person for that mere morning meal?

  • Chris Chamberlin