The high end tourism flow Northern Tasmanian tourism has forced the Mercure hotel to add more rooms for the international and national tourists.Published on : Thursday, March 22, 2018
The high end tourism flow Northern Tasmanian tourism has forced the Mercure hotel to add more rooms for the international and national tourists.
The City of Launceston has released the hotel’s plans to convert its function centre into 10 new rooms and renovate a further 13 rooms, with all works expected to be finished in August.The upgrades would bring the total number of rooms to 78.
Launceston managing director Tenille Pentland said the decision was made to upgrade the hotel to keep up with predicted long-term demand. She quoted the state government’s T21 tourist strategy, which aims to draw 1.5 million tourists a year to Tasmania by 2020, as evidence of a need for more hotel rooms in Launceston. An additional 271 rooms will be required in Launceston. Tourism Northern Tasmania chief executive Chris Griffin said the Mercure may have even underestimated the future growth in tourist numbers. The renovations at the hotel will begin, given council approval, within weeks, with the function centre set to be out of action soon.
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