Sep-Oct 2016 Issue | Business View Oceania

244 Business View Oceania - September/October 2016 running of the hotel and the refur- bishment was started one floor at a time. Once two floors were complet- ed the hotel started advertising over- seas, hired a new chef, new staff and a general manager. We have retained a number of the original staff. “All the purchases for the refurbish- ment were made locally in Cairns. A conscious decision was made to sup- port local businesses rather than out- source from down south. “The growth of Cairns Plaza Hotel started when we demonstrated that the place was actually worth staying at. That came about when an invest-