Sarin Group unviels Thordon Quay apartment hotel –

New Zealand-owned family business Sarin Hotels has opened a 72-room apartment hotel on Thorndon Quay – the eponymously named Proximity Apartments, located near Sky Stadium and The Beehive. The project has been four years in the making, with delays caused by Covid-19. The new 9-storey building is owned by Wellington property developer Craig Stewart and is his first hotel development. As the third hotel operated by Sarin in the Wellington area, and its eighth throughout New Zealand, the 4.5-star Proximity Apartments join the Sarin-managed DoubleTree by Hilton Wellington and The Sebel Lower Hutt, which opens in May/June. The group also…
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Go Coconuts for NEW Monin flavours! –

Bring the sunshine in this winter with MONIN’s two new tropical flavours – MONIN Coconut Puree and MONIN Le Mixeur Pina Colada. Le Mixeur de MONIN Pina Colada is your bartender in a bottle – simply add equal parts mixer, spirit and ice for a delicious and quick cocktail. Bursting with the fruity sweetness of pineapple and creamy coconut, Le Mixeur Pina Colada will instantly transport you to the tropics when you add it to cocktails, milkshakes and smoothies, or be adventurous and try mixing it in cold brew coffee with coconut milk. You can also try it in your…
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Amadeus Partners with UpMail Solutions to Expand Hospitality Technology Ecosystem

April 18, 2023 – As a leading global provider of innovative group sales and catering technology solutions, Amadeus’ Delphi® helps hospitality teams of all sizes streamline and improve operations by elevating their group and event sales, organizing, and management processes. Busy teams are under pressure to respond to an increased level of group and catering inquiries with speed, relevance, and personalization to ensure that their response is the one that makes the difference. Through Amadeus’ new strategic partnership with hotel sales technology provider UpMail Solutions, customers seeking integrated proposal customization will benefit from enhanced capabilities allowing them to quickly reply…
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Debate over $13M tax break for airport hotel ends in tie vote

A wide-ranging debate over whether a hotel project at the Ottawa International Airport should get a $13 million break on property taxes ended in an unusual tie vote Tuesday at city hall. City staff have determined Germain Hotels is eligible to pay $4.4 million in taxes to the City of Ottawa over 25 years if it builds a new 180-room Alt Hotel attached to the terminal — just 25 per cent of the $17.4 million in tax revenue it’s expected to generate. Germain Hotels was the first applicant under a new community improvement plan for the airport area approved by…
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Scottish hotels: Royal Deeside, Banchory: Douglas Arms put up for sale

UK property firm Graham + Sibbald said it had been instructed by Michael JM Reid of Meston Reid & Co, as liquidator of SJ Inns Ltd, to market for sale the Douglas Arms Hotel on High Street in Bankhory. The property agent described it as “a wonderful opportunity to acquire and re-establish this once busy hostelry in a very popular locality”. It added: “Following on from the problematic and difficult trading conditions, for two years, during the Covid pandemic, the significant increase in energy costs, pre-Christmas 2022, made the trading business unsustainable, which signaled the decision [to] place the business…
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Protesting Crab Harvesters Gather at Sheraton Hotel

The public gallery in the House of Assembly had to be cleared today after fish harvesters responded loudly to discussions in the Legislature related to their concerns over changes to allocations in the 3L area. The harvesters moved on to Confederation Building this afternoon in time for Question Period after protesting first at DFO and then the Sheraton Hotel. In the Legislature, guests in the public gallery are supposed to remain silent, but the harvesters responded loudly to provincial fisheries minister Derek Bragg who was responding to a petition presented by Bonavista MHA Craig Pardy. Minister Derek Bragg got a…
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Meet NZ’s divine Hot Cross buns! –

A team effort is behind the best hot cross bun in New Zealand, and its biggest critic, Daily Bread head baker Patrick Welzenbach describes it as “perfect”. Daily Bread, Auckland took out the top place for a second consecutive year in Baking New Zealand’s Great NZ Hot Cross Bun Competition, which was judged in Palmerston North on March 17. With extra butter, a little more moisture and a faster proving of the sourdough, the winning entry is the fluffiest hot cross bun Daily Bread has created while continuing to produce a classical bun. “I have to say that this year’s…
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