April 10, 2025

As announced last month, global hospitality marketing and operations platform SevenRooms launched Text Marketing in Australia at the end of February. Not stopping there, the platform has now added three AI features to assist hospitality venues in saving time and labour, to allow staff to focus on guest experience. A recent study showed that over

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April 3, 2025

The Minns government in NSW has changed tack on its bid to remove 9,500 EGMs from the state’s venues, on the basis of following evidence-based policy that “gets the balance right”. In the pre-election fervour of 2023 Labor outlined a plan to remove the machines over five years, via a buyback scheme and revised system

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April 3, 2025

Last October, Paul Rhigas collapsed while playing tennis, due to a cardiac arrest. His teammates rushed to grab the club’s automated external defibrillator (AED) and with no training, saved Rhigas’ life. Without the AED (also known as defibrillators, or defibs), things could have been very different, as ClubTIC reported last year. The AED Authority advises

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April 3, 2025

As cyber attacks scour Australian businesses every day, industry consultant Warren Tapp says the Board and management must prepare for when it happens to their club. * Data governance is a business imperative, and Boards are responsible for ensuring a good data protection framework is in place. This year, the average exposed data cost is

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April 3, 2025

The Australasian Gaming Expo (AGE) is diving into the new year and a new chapter in hospitality with a refreshed brand identity and logo for the big show for 2025. Ending a decade sporting the poker machine-inspired insignia, the contemporary new look marks a milestone in the event’s evolution, which in itself is a nod

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