No doubt the French hotel giant’s Pacific office will be in dire need of a few glasses of Perrier Jouët after this week’s bombardment.

While away your Friday afternoon by perusing through some stunning pictures of Accor’s swanky new-look Mercure in Doncaster.

The main work perk we enjoy here at Travel Weekly is a fully-stocked biscuit shelf, which means we are usually one Iced Vovo away from going on strike.

The French hotel chain has been busy this past week, opening the doors of a slick new Mercure across the ditch and new retreat in South Australia.

We’re unsure what kind of traveller will take advantage of this whacky partnership, but somewhere, a travelling handy-person is jumping for joy.

A busy little bee in the hospitality world has come up trumps in an annual hotel rankings report, knocking off last year’s title holder.

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

Did you miss the mid-morning hotel briefing? Perhaps you dozed off during parts of it? Well, thankfully we’ve written this.

Preferring an upgrade of Circular Quay wharves to a stack of money-making hotels, the Baird Government has hung a price tag on some of Sydney’s gems.

There’s few things we like less than sifting through endless emails, so instead we’ve gone and done the legwork for you.

A private equity firm is creating a new hospitality group to compete with the likes of InterContinental Hotels in the UK.

AccorHotels has sealed the deal with an exclusive partnership that will see more than 6200 rooms open between 2015 and 2017.