PHOTO: SUPPLIED The 195-room Park Hyatt in Auckland’s Wynyard quarter is expected to open mid 2020.
Hotel owners and operators are worried about the impact of the coronavirus on their business coming on top of the opening of hundreds of new hotel rooms in 2020.
About 1660 rooms in 13 hotels are expected to open their doors this year, and 1080 of those are in Auckland in seven hotels.
Scenic Hotel Group managing director Brendan Taylor said the hotel market would be over-supplied. Scenic is the largest locally-owned and operated hotel group in New Zealand with 17 hotels here.
The coronavirus was having a big impact on everybody in the hotel market, Taylor said. It was impacting Scenic’s hotels in Fox Glacier and Haast and would have a big impact in March and April on their Queenstown business, he said.
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