Hotel staff in firing line if quarantine moved to regions, industry warns

“We have to realise that the accommodation industry in Queensland, regardless of what we are hearing reported in the media, is running at about a 10 to 15 per cent occupancy rate. No business can run at that level for long,” Mr Hogan said.

“Those accommodation members who have contracts right now will be affected, and they are some of the few ones that employ staff.”

Brisbane was thrown into a sudden three-day lockdown earlier this month and saw restrictions such as mandatory mask wearing in place until Friday morning as a result of an outbreak of the UK strain at Brisbane’s Hotel Grand Chancellor.

Mr Hogan argued that far from running out of control, the cluster was limited to just six cases, which he said was a testament and…