Tourism and hospitality group, Crystalbrook Collection, is set to transform the Cairns skyline with a $500 million investment in three new international hotels.

Nanjing Fullshare Industrial Holding Group

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Jackalope Mornington Peninsula

International Convention Centre Sydney

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The newest member of AccorHotels’ boutique MGallery Collection, Elements of Byron in Byron Bay, has welcomed its first guests. Development of the $100 million dollar ‘slow architectural’ resort was overseen by owner Peggy Flannery.

More than $2 billion worth of investment into light rail, road works, bus lanes and venue upgrades have been completed on the Gold Coast to ensure adequate infrastructure is in place ahead of the influx of visitors expected for the Commonwealth Games.

The South Australian Government is inviting expressions of interest from prospective investors in the development of eco-sensitive accommodation facilities for the Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail.

Desert Gardens Hotel at Ayers Rock Resort has been elevated to a new level of sophistication with a total refurbishment of guestrooms, restaurants and the hotel bar in a modern Indigenous-inspired design.

Saltwater Properties has purchased the leasehold over Berkeley River Lodge in the Kimberley region on the north coast of Western Australia, with price suggestion of under $10 million. The property features 20 spacious villa units with Timor Sea, Berkeley River and Kimberley views, restaurant, bar, conference and pool facilities, staff accommodation, workshops and a dedicated airstrip on a 4704 hectare site.

Adelaide's fastest growing sector between 2014 and 2016 was accommodation and food services (+112 establishments). Since the successful laneway activation of Peel and Leigh Streets in 2014, the hunt by hospitality groups for under-utilised space throughout the city’s laneway network has been fierce.

This might be the first Jackalope, but it certainly won't be its last. Li, who bought the Willow Creek vineyard in 2013 for a reported $9.5 million, more recently added Flinders Lane's Maria George building to his portfolio, with plans already under way to turn it into the second Jackalope.

A ROOM where visitors inhale wine, a virtual fermenter into which you will “fall” and a smell-a-rama corner derived from 30 flagons — they could be creations straight out of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Instead, they are some of the features taking shape at d’Arenberg’s latest venture — the new wine centre.