Marriott regional boss Sean Hunt says airlift capacity needs to rise if new hotels like its 301-room Moxy at Sydney Airport are to thrive.
and being a “one-trick pony” in its protection of Qantas, as the hotel giant prepares to cut the ribbon on its first hotel at Sydney Airport.
“Domestic travel is back at 90 per cent of pre-COVID 2019 levels, but international travel is only 67 per cent – we need to push for more airlift,” Mr Hunt toldSean Hunt at the Le Meridian Hotel in Melbourne which opened in March.“We can’t be a one-trick pony. We need more airlines flying in.
The 13-storey hotel with an end value of more than $100 million was developed on a former car park at 56 Baxter Road, Mascot, byIt is part of a long line-up of new hotels Marriott has opened in the region in the past five years that has taken its presence to nearly 50 properties across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
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