This Month
Animal attraction: Sydney Zoo seeks new backers
Street Talk understands the privately held zoo is seeking to institutionalise its register and expand operations.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
March
Here’s what you get in a $1700 butler-serviced hotel room
At Singapore’s legendary Raffles Hotel, butlers are expected to anticipate your needs.
- Brandon Presser
Corporate Travel’s margins from refugee work could be more than 50pc
The ASX-listed group, which better known for organising trips for business clients, has sought to keep details of the United Kingdom contract secret.
- Liam Walsh and Jonathan Shapiro
- Exclusive
- Tourism
Swift Lift: Domestic travellers splashed $170m during Taylor’s tour
The average interstate and regional concert-goer spent $500 including $37 on clothing and accessories and another $120 on attractions.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Peter Dutton’s obscene business-class loop
The opposition leader’s secret Perth jaunt to Gina Rinehart’s birthday involved flying through Melbourne, further raising questions about what exactly he was hoping to achieve.
- Mark Di Stefano
February
New player in market set to spark fare wars to Europe
Turkish Airlines will start flying direct into Melbourne (via Singapore) two weeks sooner than previously announced - igniting consumer hopes of better prices.
- Fiona Carruthers and Ayesha de Kretser
Why smart businesses are Swift-ifying themselves
Bookings for some tourism operators were languishing about 15 per cent below this time last year. Now, everything has changed.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Corporate Travel shares sink as earnings miss forecasts
The travel booking agency has been hit by macro conditions and timing delays for its controversial UK immigration contracts.
- Ayesha de Kretser
- Analysis
- Hotels
Is Soho House, a Goldman Sachs-backed club for the rich, going broke?
Shares in the unprofitable-but-fashionable British hotel and club business have fallen 60 per cent, raising doubts about its long-term viability.
- Chris Bryant
Ayers Rock Resort operator kicks off strategic review
Street Talk understands the federal government’s Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation has tapped Greenhills and Gilbert + Tobin to run a strategic review.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
