Sep-Oct 2016 Issue | Business View Oceania

246 Business View Oceania - September/October 2016 these guests will be able to be seated at the lounges while their rooms are being made ready. During this time, they can watch TV, read the newspa- per or use the free internet facilities. Complimentary internet WiFi facilities are available in the entire hotel. Cairns Plaza has a 24-hour reception and a restaurant that offers breakfast to all its guests. Business travellers are pleasantly surprised to find that the hotel has very prompt check-in fa- cilities. They are also offered compli- mentary continental breakfast. The hotel has gained tremendous pop- ularity and as a result, its occupancy rate in the current year for the period 1st July onwards is in excess of 95%. Cairns is enjoying increased popularity as a busi- ness and leisure destination for travel- lers from within the country and over- seas. Currently, about 70% of Cairns Plaza Hotel’s guests are leisure traveller and the remaining are business people.