Hospitality & Tourism

There are few industries as competitive as the tourism and hospitality sector. Fluctuating exchange rates, tight margins and increased regulation across the sector all have a significant impact on your business.

Whether you own a pub, develop hotels or even run an adventure tour operation, staying in touch with the latest trends, drivers and market developments is imperative to running a viable and successful business.

Our hospitality and tourism team has a working knowledge of the industry which, when combined with our technical knowledge, can assist you in reaching your commercial goals.

Our advisors take the time to understand your short, medium and long term strategic direction. Doing so enables us to help improve business performance, reduce risk and increase after tax profits.

We advise a broad range of hospitality and tourism businesses in the following specific areas:

Audit, accounting and tax compliance
Industry benchmarking and analysis
Management accounting
Budgets and cash flow forecasting
Pre-lending reviews
Capital raisings
Business and leasehold valuations
Mergers and acquisitions

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Hospitality & Tourism Industry Specialists

Asish Chand

Partner, Business Advisory

Auckland

Craig Barry

Partner, Tax Services

Brisbane

Joseph Chahin

Director, Business Advisory

Melbourne

Eric Flammang

Partner, Business Advisory

Gold Coast

Nikolas Hatzistergos

Executive Chairman

Sydney

Tony Hood

Partner, Corporate Finance

Melbourne

Adam Kirkwood-Scott

Managing Partner

Melbourne

Matthew Monaghan

Partner, Audit & Assurance

Brisbane

Chris Rosser

Principal, Corporate Finance

Adelaide

Dempsey Smythe

Partner, Business Advisory

Melbourne

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