Take-Off For Work On New Melbourne Airport Hotel
17 September 2019
Construction has begun on the first
hotel development at
Melbourne Airport in almost 20 years.
Minister for Tourism, Sport and Major Events Martin Pakula together with
representatives from Melbourne Airport,
Accor Hotels and construction
contractor Built today turned the first sod at the site, just a short
walk from Terminal Four.
Designed by noted
Melbourne architects
Fender Katsalidis and with
interiors by
Woods Bagot, the 10-storey, 464-room hotel complex will
support 120 hospitality jobs when it opens in 2021.
Some 450 jobs will be created during construction of the Novotel-Ibis
Styles property.
The most recent hotel to be launched at the airport was in 2002, when
the Tullamarine terminals processed 15 million passengers a year.
Last financial year more than 37 million passengers passed through
Melbourne Airport and the new accommodation will help meet visitor
demand that is forecast to continue to grow strongly.
The hotel will form the cornerstone of the airport’s Hive precinct,
which will also take in a childcare facility, civic spaces, public
artworks and offices ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 square metres.
Victoria’s tourism industry is thriving, with more than 90 million
visitors contributing $30 billion to the local economy, and supporting
more than 210,000 local jobs, in the year to March.
As at June, Victoria had 37 international airlines flying in and out of
Melbourne and Avalon airports – including new flights from Port Vila to
Melbourne on Air Vanuatu and Queenstown to Melbourne on Qantas.
Tourism is a key pillar of the state’s prosperity, with the Andrews
Labor Government’s Visitor Economy Strategy developed in 2016 on track
to meet its target of $36.5 billion in visitor spending by 2025.
Managed by international airport hotel specialist Accor Group, which
operates the Novotel and Ibis brands, the new Melbourne Airport hotel
complex will also incorporate a gym and pool facilities, cafe, bar,
restaurant and conference rooms.
Quotes attributable to Minister for Tourism, Sport and Major
Events Martin Pakula
“Our visitor economy is growing at a rapid rate and Melbourne Airport is
the gateway for so many of our domestic and international guests.”
“It’s great to get a start on this project which will add to the
ever-improving experience of the hundreds of thousands of people who use
the airport for business and pleasure each week.”
Quote attributable to Melbourne Airport chief of property Linc Horton
“Air travel to and from Melbourne is booming with forecasts predicting
the airport will service almost 70 million people a year by 2038 –
that’s why developments like this new Novotel-Ibis Styles hotel are so
important.”
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