Expansion work at Hobart’s casino under way
Work has begun on a bold $lB million expansion plan for Hobart’s Wrest Point Casino-Hotel. When completed later next year Wrest Point will have convention facilities for 1600 delegates and an additional 100 bedrooms for 200 guests. Wrest Point will then be the best equipped convention centre in the South-West Pacific. The centre will be linked to the Wrest Point tower block by an extensive new casino, housing the games from the existing two-up area with restaurant and bar facilities. Parking will be increased on site to provide foi an extra 300 vehicles and extra storage rooms for equipment and backup facilities will be included in the development. The two top floors of the original Wrest Point building will be removed and replaced by a spacious roof garden which will function as a forecourt for the new bedrooms. The new project will mean creation of 200 new jobs and bring the Wrest Point workforce to a total of 900. The legalisation of casino gambling in Hobart is considered to be the main reason for a dramatic increase in the number of tourists to Tasmania over the last nine years. In fact, the number of visitors to the State has more than doubled since Wrest Point was opened in 1973. But of these 600,000 visitors, only about 4 per cent are from overseas. By far the biggest majority, 96 per cent, are Australians seeing a little more of their own country; and taking a gamble along the way.
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Press, 16 March 1982, Page 26
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