The news comes as a peak industry body estimates a 10 to 20 per cent drop in bookings set to cost the country at least $45 billion by the end of the year.

It’s the last Hotel Wrap of the year! Make sure you get your fill of all the latest openings, upgrades and deals before Christmas break.

Need a reminder of why being a travel agent is the best job ever? Check out this round-up of incentives and famils to rekindle your spirit.

Seven is this week’s lucky number – seven stories for the Hotel Wrap, and seven shots of espresso to help us through Thursday.

If the thought of going back to regular-sized working weeks makes you as petrified as it makes us, take solace in these pictures of agents having a kick-ass time overseas.

This week’s Agent Wrap is a special fun-sized edition, meaning we cut it short so we could leave in time for Happy Hour.

There’s no need to hang around the work toilets to hear all the hotel industry gossip when you can read it right here!

What’s better than reading about agents on cool famils and winning free stuff? Finally reaching Friday!

Ready to expand your grey matter of all things wholesale? Feel instantly more intelligent by reading this.

Just to make you feel even worse about the cold weather, Travel Weekly hand-picked a host of tropical hotel news for this week’s wrap, topped with a sprinkling of hospitality deals.

Have you found yourself sweaty and shaky from going a week without a hotel wrap? Neither have we, but here’s some hotel news anyway.

If the thought of going back to regular-sized working weeks makes you as petrified as it makes us, take solace in these pictures of agents having a kick-ass time overseas.