Sydney Olympic Park bucks occupancy trend
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Sydney Olympic Park has highlighted its position as Sydney’s fastest growing business, meetings, events and leisure destination with a 68% increase in hotel occupancies for the year to September 2009. The increase comes on the eve of the first anniversary of the opening of the Pullman Sydney Olympic Park, western Sydney’s first 5-star hotel.
During the Pullman’s first year of operations, the Sydney Olympic Park precinct has seen almost 101,000 room nights booked (60,396 for the same period to 31 Aug 2007 and 59,902 for the same period in 2008), and the Pullman has hosted over 700 meetings, events and conferences.
“We are very excited to have reached our milestone first birthday with strong figures, despite the impact of the global financial crisis,” said General Manager Marcus Hanna. “The launch of the Pullman has taken Sydney Olympic Park to new heights in terms of hotel occupancy, finally offering a world-class five-star hotel to Western Sydney and helping to attract even more conferences and events to this vibrant precinct.
“Even more encouraging is that the final three months of 2009 look very positive with a strong return in business travel along with the hosting of a number of major events and conferences.”
Next month, Sydney Olympic Park will be the hub for the World Masters Games, and in December the precinct will host the first V8 Supercar street race for Sydney. The 2009 V8 Supercar Championship is and will incorporate a three-day celebration, with on and off-track entertainment for all ages. It is expected the event will attract over 150,000 people over the three days, with almost 850 million homes worldwide watching the action through a global telecast.
Recognising the precinct’s growth as a prime corporate and residential area, Sydney Olympic Park will soon receive its official suburb naming status from the Geographical Naming Board.
The Pullman Sydney Olympic Park joins three other Accor hotels in the precinct - the newly renovated Novotel Sydney Olympic Park, Ibis Sydney Olympic Park and Formule 1 Sydney Olympic Park.
As the first new five-star hotel to be built in Sydney since the Olympics, the Pullman set new standards in accommodation for the west and offers stunning city skyline views from many of its rooms. Bacar Restaurant has also brought a new standard in fine dining to the precinct, under talented Executive Chef David Greenhill.
Pullman is the upscale hotel brand of Accor. It was designed with the requirements of business women and men in mind. Located in the main regional and international cities, Pullman hotels provide an extensive range of tailored services, access to groundbreaking technologies and the “Co-Meeting” offer, a new approach to organising meetings, seminars and high-end incentives. At Pullman Hotels, business travellers can choose between being independent or relying on the staff available round the clock. Starting 2009, the Pullman network will have 59 hotels in 23 countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. By 2015, we expect over 300 establishments around the world.
Accor, the European leader and a major global group in hotels, the global leader in services to corporate clinets and public institutions, operates in nearly 100 countries with 170,000 employees. It offers to its clients over 20 years of expertise in two core businesses:
– Hotels, with the Sofitel, Pullman, Novotel, Mercure, Suitehotel, Ibis, all seasons, Etap Hotel, Formule 1 and Motel 6 brands, representing 4,000 hotels and nearly 500,000 rooms in 90 countries, as well as strategically related activities, such as Len
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