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Struggling city hotels plead for post-JobKeeper wage help – Sydney Morning Herald
With hotel revenue in Melbourne’s CBD just one-third of pre-pandemic levels, the tourism sector is calling for additional support after the JobKeeper wage subsidy…
Another city-fringe business that had previously operated two hotels employing 140 workers had shuttered one of its sites and was running the remaining one with just 37 staff.
Melbourne CBD hotels were filling just 38 per cent of their rooms in December 2020, compared to nearly 84 per cent in 2019, while revenue per available room (RevPAR) recorded a 64 per cent decline, year on year.
But in the regions, where hotels are much less reliant on interstate and international travellers, occupancies were…
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