HOTELS – AUSTRALIA

Investors back Accor deal, says Mantra chief

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Original article by Larry Schlesinger
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 34 : 13-Oct-17

Mantra Group shareholders are expected to vote in March 2018 on its proposed merger with Accor by means of a scheme of arrangement. Mantra Group head Bob East says its shareholders are very supportive of the $A1.3 billion merger, which will create an entity with over 300 hotels and around 15 per cent share of the Australian hotels market. The deal will also have to be approved by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission and the Foreign Investment Review Board.

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MANTRA GROUP LIMITED – ASX MTR, ACCOR SA, AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION, AUSTRALIA. FOREIGN INVESTMENT REVIEW BOARD, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE TREASURY, PEPPERS HOTEL GROUP, BREAKFREE LIMITED, CHOICE HOTELS AUSTRALIA, MFS LIMITED, HIGHBURY PARTNERSHIP PTY LTD, AUSTRALIANSUPER PTY LTD, BT FINANCIAL GROUP PTY LTD, CENTRAL BANK OF NORWAY

Hotel chain ripped off migrant cleaners

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Original article by Ewin Hannan
The Australian – Page: 6 : 9-Nov-16

An audit undertaken by Oaks Hotels and Resorts revealed that 1,502 migrant workers were collectively underpaid some $A1.9m in the year to August 2016. The hotel chain undertook the audit after the Fair Work Ombudsman threatened to launch legal action over allegations of wage exploitation by an Oaks subsidiary, Housekeepers Pty Ltd. The company had deemed the migrant workers at 40 of its hotels to be independent contracts rather than employees. It initially provided 16 workers with some $A13,000 in back pay, but the FWO subsequently found that the underpayments had continued.

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OAKS HOTELS AND RESORTS LIMITED, HOUSEKEEPERS PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA. FAIR WORK OMBUDSMAN, UNITED VOICE, 7-ELEVEN STORES PTY LTD, CALTEX AUSTRALIA LIMITED – ASX CTX

No vacancy? It’s just too expensive to clean hotel rooms

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Original article by Joe Kelly, Lisa Allen
The Australian – Page: 2 : 6-Nov-15

Accommodation Association of Australia CEO Richard Munro says Sunday penalty rates are forcing many hotels to delay cleaning their rooms until Monday, which has reduced the available of accommodation on weekends. He adds that some hotel operators are also delaying essential maintenance work and cancelling breakfast services on Sundays. The association wants the Federal Government to make a submission on penalty rates to the Fair Work Commission’s review of the modern industrial awards system.

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ACCOMMODATION ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA. FAIR WORK COMMISSION, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF EMPLOYMENT, MANTRA GROUP LIMITED – ASX MTR, THE WINDSOR HOTEL

The cost of a capital-city holiday

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 17-Sep-15

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that almost 12 million Australians aged 14+ took at least one domestic holiday in the year to June 2015, with the average cost per head/per night of their last domestic trip being $A150. This figure was higher for people whose last holiday was spent in a capital city, with Sydney and Melbourne being the most expensive at $A197 per person per night on average. Canberra was the most affordable, at $A151 per night. Popular regional areas that were below the national average include the north coast of New South Wales ($A117) and Victoria’s Great Ocean Road ($A121).

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED

A friend’s spare room in Australia or a 4-star resort in Asia?

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 10-Feb-15

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 36 per cent of Australians aged 14+ whose last long holiday was domestic chose to stay at the homes of friends or relatives. The survey, which was carried out in the year to December 2014, also shows that 21 per cent opted for paid accommodation such as fully self-contained rental flats, apartments or houses, while 11 per cent stayed at four-star hotels or resorts. In contrast, 33 per cent of Australian holiday-goers whose last long trip was in Asia chose to stay at either four-star hotels or resorts, while 28 per cent opted for standard hotels/motels or resorts

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED

Anti-vaccination event venues ‘bullied’ to cancel

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Original article by Julia Medew, Eryk Bagshaw
The Age – Page: 8 : 9-Jan-15

Stephanie Messenger, an anti-vaccination activist, has criticised venue operators who have opted to cancel the bookings made for a lecture tour in Australia of US-based osteopath Sherri Tenpenny. Among the businesses accused of bowing to the alleged "bullying" of medical practitioners and pro-vaccination groups are the Amora Hotel Riverwalk and Bayview Eden in Melbourne, Concord Function Centre in Narooma and Kareela Golf & Social Club in Sydney

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KAREELA GOLF AND SOCIAL CLUB LIMITED, AMORA RIVERWALK FRESCO BAR AND GRILL, BAYVIEW EDEN MELBOURNE, CONCORD FUNCTION CENTRE

Mantra finds Bali is far from a holiday

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Original article by Lisa Allen
The Australian – Page: 18 : 19-Dec-14

Australian-listed Mantra Group has indicated that it will focus on management agreements for hotels in Bali rather than franchise arrangements. The group manages the 49-villa Peppers Sentosa Seminyak resort in Bali, and recently dropped plans to operate hotels that have just been built at Nusa Dua and Legian. However, Mantra will open a new hotel in southern Bali in December 2015

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MANTRA GROUP LIMITED – ASX MTR, PEPPERS LEISURE LIMITED