Quest Kudos Magazine | Edition Fifteen

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Welcome to the latest edition of Quest Kudos magazine

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you’ve been in business for 30 years, chances are you’re doing something right. Throughout Quest’s 30 years, one thing we have learnt is the importance of empowering our young people. In the spirit of this, we turn the spotlight onto some remarkable young business people who have become trail blazers in their thirties.

Our panel of experts: Dylan Alcott OAM, Cyan Ta’eed, founder of Envato, and Jane Lu, founder of ShowPo, chat all things 30, delving into the success stories of the young guns who founded Spotify and Dropbox.

Fashion designer, businesswoman and philanthropist, Tory Burch, launched her AU$4.5B business with no formal business training. This edition, we look at what it takes to reach her level of success and how her business blossomed from a single store, to more than 200 worldwide.

For me, food is huge part of travel. This month we trek through 30 of Europe’s gastronomic hot spots, sipping coffee in Vienna and sampling pintxos in San Sebastian.

If adrenaline adventures are more your speed, we explore some thrill-seeking spots for you to discover, from heli-skiing in New Zealand, to dune safaris in Dubai. Or, if it’s just a simple weekend away that you’re after, we’ve got local insight into some Bendigo gems, and tips on weekend packing.

If you have your own milestone to celebrate, or just enjoy a good drop, take a look at our tempting guide to 30 cellar doors, for everything you’ll need to plan the perfect winery tour of Australia and New Zealand.

We hope you enjoy this edition of Quest Kudos magazine and thank you for being part of the Quest journey over the past 30 years.

We look forward to looking after you well into our next milestone.

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ON THE COVER

Dylan Alcott OAM, Australian wheelchair basketballer and tennis player, gold medallist and founder of Ability Fest.

03 8699 1500 questapartments.com.au Group Director, Marketing & Digital Jeff Baars To view Quest Kudos content digitally, visit questapartments.com.au/lifestyle

Publisher: Dani Carey Sub Editor: Sara Gordon Art Director: Natalie Matheson Contributing Editors: Jacqueline Alwill, Dani Carey, Winsor Dobbin, Matthew Field, Sara Gordon, Bethan Holt, Ashlee Long, Michael McQueen, Dilvin Yasa.

Published by Espresso Media espressomedia.com.au Copyright: Quest Apartment Hotels 2019.

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CONTENTS

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10 48 HOURS Get the most from a 48-hour stopover in Singapore

12 COVER STORY Five incredible success stories of people making waves in the world in their first thirty years.

INSIDE BUSINESS TORY BURCH

22 WELL READ 30 must-read books covering business, design, travel and food.

40 EXPLORE Adrenaline adventures to get you outdoors and get your heart racing.

52 CHEERS

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30 must visit cellar doors across Australia and New Zealand.

WEEKEND GETAWAY DISCOVER BENDIGO

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26 BUSINESS INSPO

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ON THE GO We’ve compiled some terrific gadgets and gear for both the digital early-adopter and the executive who values timeless functionality.

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FACE FORWARD drroebucks.com

TRAVEL RIGHT kinnon.com.au

This Australian skincare brand is taking the world by storm.

Dr. Roebuck’s have a travel pack of two of their most popular products; No Worries hydrating face moisturizer and Byron mask and scrub. Hydrating products without the chemicals.

This luxury travel satchel has space for all the essentials including a laptop, tablet, and documents.

It features an internal zippered closure and adjustable padded shoulder strap making part satchel, part briefcase and ideal for business travel.

RRP $35

RRP $375

SAFE AND SOUND thescrubba.com The Scrubba Air Sleeve is an airbag for your tech and pillow for your head. Auto-inflating to provide instant protection against minor bumps, it also doubles as a travel pillow to help you work hard and rest easy.

RRP $67.50

THE GOOD STUFF sttoke.com Entirely shatterproof and lightweight the slick designed Sttoke Reusable Cup is the latest innovation to enter the Australian coffee scene.

RRP $39

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COFFEE ON THE GO thedesigngiftshop.com This little gem is a portable espresso machine that uses either ground coffee or pods. The eco-friendly Handpresso doesn’t need electricity, only your muscles. On the road or in the office you can prepare a premium quality espresso wherever you are.

RRP $200

QUICK SCAN yellowoctopus.com.au Meet the scanning mouse.

It’s not only a practical mouse for your desktop or laptop but also a fully functioning scanner. The easy way to scan notes or text and add them to your preferred format.

RRP $200

SIGN HERE annabeljames.co.uk In a digital world, signing documents with a fountain pen will never go out of style. This beautifully engineered fountain comes from Ted Baker’s new luxury stationery range. Black ink cartridge included.

RRP $105

➔ CLOUD NOTES getrocketbook.com.au The Rocketbook Everlast is a cloud-connected reusable notebook. You can take notes, scan them straight from the page back to the cloud or email using the free iPhone or Android app. Practical and impressive.

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seasoned traveller

UP, UP AND AWAY

Naomi Simson shares her tips and tricks for stress free business travel.

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NAOMI SIMSON REDBALLOON

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edBalloon has delivered more than four million experiences across Australia and New Zealand.

Recently recognised as the seventh most followed woman on LinkedIn with 1.5 million followers, Naomi uses the platform to share her insights, experience and observations about business, innovation and success.

What’s your best packing tip?

My motto is ‘this goes with that’... I always pack things that I can mix and match and ensure I have things to wear that take me from day to night that you can just add an accessory to. Also, never check luggage if you can possibly avoid it, it will save you so much time!

INSTA INSPO Instagram profiles to add colour and flare to your downtime.

@graymalin Fine art photographer with artsy setups and aerial photos to escape into.

What’s your best tips for a comfortable flight?

I always put earplugs in, it’s the subtle noise that bothers me the most so if I can block some of that noise out, it makes a big difference for me. A good eye mask also helps.

What gadget can’t you live without when travelling?

Obviously, my smartphone but I do like the all in one power cord.

@fubiz Curated art and design imagery from around the world.

What’s your favourite travel app?

I would definitely recommend the Citibank global currency app. It’s a great way to manage multiple currencies while travelling.

What’s the first thing you do when you arrive in a new city?

If I’m travelling for pleasure and not for work, then I always indulge in a city walking tour to soak up the energy and my surroundings.

@raw_manda Deliciously designed food for all the healthy eating inspo you need.

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48 hours

An After-Hours Cocktail Occupying three floors of the One Raffles Place building, 1-Altitude is three concept bars and restaurants combined. 1-Altitude Gallery and Bar, situated on the rooftop 282 metres above ground is the self-proclaimed ‘highest alfresco bar in the world’ boasting unobstructed views of the city lights. The incredible views also come with an extensive drinks list, as well as a resident DJ.

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SINGAPORE One of the most vibrant metropolises

➔ Shopping

Most will want to carve out some time taking advantage of Singapore’s abundant shopping opportunities. With only 48 hours you’ll need to choose wisely.

Orchard Road is a 2.2 kilometre stretch of giant malls and is the undisputed shopping hub of Singapore. Pristine complexes such as ION Orchard and Paragon house designer brands, while the more understated centres such as Far East Asia and Lucky Plaza still prove ever-popular with bargain hunters.

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➔ Client Entertaining

One of the considerations in choosing dining options for client entertaining is making sure your choice has broad appeal. Meta Restaurant at 9 Keong Saik Road features European, Asian and Fusion dining and is vegetarianfriendly. The restaurant was awarded a Michelin Star in 2017 and boasts a menu that changes seasonally.

➔ Museum/Gallery

When time is limited, but you want to get at least one museum in on your trip, you can’t miss with Singapore’s oldest museum, The National Museum of Singapore.

This museum uses a multiperspective way to present the history of Singapore along with cutting-edge technology. The museum’s history dates back to 1887. The more time you have, the better, but you can get a good overview in three to four hours.

Visit the museum at 93 Stamford Road.

➔ Chinatown

Distinctly different from other parts of the city, Singapore’s China Town is worth whatever time you can afford to spend there. Make sure you include the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple at 288 South Bridge Road, the awe-inspiring Sri Mariamman Temple at South Bridge Road and Pagoda Street and the Chinatown Street Market along and around Pagoda Street.

Entirely taking in a world-class city like Singapore in 48 hours may be impossible, but it can be enjoyable trying.

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National Museum

If you’re looking for something just a bit different in a sightseeing tour, consider a Singapore Night Tour.

You can tour the Gardens by the Bay, and take in the city skyline on a river cruise. The tour includes the dazzling Gardens By the Bay Light and Music Show.

A night tour, with the help of a professional guide, is a relaxing way to see and learn more about this fantastic city.

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YOUNG GUNS MEGA!SUCCESS BEFORE 30

Dylan Alcott

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At an age where most of their contemporaries are battling to be seen and heard, meet the ground-breakers proving it’s never too early to become successful beyond your wildest dreams. As Dilvin Yasa found out.

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xpectations of what people with a disability can do are low.”

When he’s not busy winning gold medals and trophies, serving as a breakfast radio host or launching foundations and initiatives, Dylan Alcott, 28, is planning global domination.

Having dazzled the crowds at Wimbledon this past July, it’s hard to imagine there was ever a moment where Dylan Alcott (he of the cheeky grin, quick wit, and propensity to burst into Wu-Tang Clan lyrics on live television) doubted himself. The way Alcott tells it, however, dreams of playing on those fabled greens in the whites he now swears to make him ‘look sexy’ were the stuff of unicorns of fairy dust during tough times when all he could bring himself to do was play video games and eat junk food on the couch.

Born with a tumour wrapped around his spinal cord, Alcott underwent an operation to have it removed within the first few weeks of his life - a procedure that left him a paraplegic. “I found it really tough growing up with my disability,” he wrote in a candid and heartfelt first-person piece for PlayersVoice (playersvoice.com.au).

“I was okay, but then I got bullied at school, and it became really hard. I don’t think I’d be doing much, if anything now, if not for sport,” he added. “If that kid

who was embarrassed to go out of the house was told he would have played Wimbledon, there’s no way he would have believed it.”

To hear Alcott’s family speak of him, it’s evident true grit ran in his veins from the get-go – whether Alcott himself realised it or not. Words such as ‘fighter’ and ‘competitive’ are thrown about regularly and why not? This is the man who as a kid took up both wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball as a kid and not only took home gold and silver as part of the Australian Mens National Wheelchair Basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, but also two Paralympics tennis gold medals at Rio and five grand slams. Add to that a sneaky Medal of the Order of Australia along the way and a commerce degree from the University of Melbourne, and you could probably say he did ‘okay’.

“I’m a closet nerd as well,” he says. “So I made sure I gave academics a good run,” The boy whose first few months was spent on a knife’s edge was only getting started. In 2017, Alcott established the Dylan Alcott Foundation (dylanalcottfoundation.com.au) with the core purpose of helping young Australians with disabilities gain self-esteem and respect through sport and study – an initiative that has spawned fundraisers such as Ability Fest, a music festival

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Alcott with Jin, a grant recipient at Ability Fest 2018.

Alcott winning gold at the 2016 Rio Paralympics

featuring everything from pathways for wheelchairs and quiet zones for those with sensory disabilities to Ausland (Australian Sign Language) interpreters. “Of the 6,000 people who came [to Ability Fest], 500 of them had disabilities and 300 of them had never been to an event of any kind before because of lack of access or understanding,” Alcott says.

Later that year, Alcott was awarded Patron for International Day of People with Disability, earlier this year he launched Get Skilled Access (getskilledaccess. com.au), a training organisation working with Paralympians to train business and government employees how to treat customers with disabilities.

Oh, and somewhere along the way, he has become a highly sought-after motivational speaker and Triple J radio host – a gig he says he scored after he made a name for himself wheelchair crowd surfing at music festival Soundwave.

If you’re in mild shock by now, Alcott wouldn’t be surprised, explaining that the expectations of what people with a disability can do are all too low. “I’m just showing you can still do what you want to do.

You can still play sport. You can still get a job. You can still go on a date. You can still travel. You can still

do things that people take for granted, but there’s this misconception that we can’t,” he says. Yes, he believes the sporting world still has some way to go, revealing Australian Open Winners receive AU$3.6million while he received AU$12,000 in prize money after winning this year, but he’s glad interest is building and no, he doesn’t ever wonder what life could have been had Alcott the use of his whole body. “If I could walk, would I have just played at Wimbledon? Maybe. Probably not,” Alcott says. “But I have, so who cares about what I could have done?

I just worry about what I can do and what I’m doing right now,” Entire lifetimes could fit within Alcott’s relatively short 28 years, but this doesn’t mean he’s ready to take the backseat any time soon, declarations of wants, dreams, and desires being regularly broadcast for all to see online.

He wants to build up his foundation, take over the media landscape, have his own talk show and possibly even hit good old Summer Bay. “Get me on Home and Away!

Get me in Hollywood!” he wrote within a first-person piece in PlayersVoice. “There’s so much I want to do, and everything seems to be happening for a reason, so I’m just going to keep putting myself out there.”

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When I finally started saying yes, things began happening’” Jane Lu, ShowPo

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rom ‘bludging at work on social’ to creating online retail juggernaut Showpo, 31-year-old Jane Lu’s journey to success veers sharply off the conventional – just the way she likes it.

Spending all your time on Facebook in a job you abhor hardly sounds like the best kind of training for setting up an AU$30 million a year business, but Jane Lu, founder, and CEO of online retail juggernaut Showpo (showpo.com) is keen to tell it straight.

Put to her the suggestion that there must have been some roadblocks to starting a global company at the tender age of 24, and she not only dismisses it but declares that youth might have even been instrumental in the company’s success.

“Business strategy, agility, and hard work played more of a role [than age], but since I was of an age where I spent most of the time on Facebook,

I guess you could say I was comfortable in the digital space and that ultimately played a huge part in the success of the brand,” she says. “As we all know, other than inventory, marketing is the other major expense to any online fashion business, and if you know what you’re doing, you can do just that for next to nothing.”

Lu, of course, has come a long way from the ‘girl bludging at work on social’; today, she’s a 31-year-old powerhouse, having been nominated for countless awards and taking home the titles of Cosmopolitan’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 2015, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2016 and debuting on the AFR Young Rich List 2017 with a personal fortune estimated at $32 million. Not too shabby for a girl who immigrated with her parents from their native China at the age of seven not knowing a word of English.

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With the weight of parental expectation hanging above her head, Lu excelled at school, earning a job with a Big Four accounting firm before quickly realising that particular career path wasn’t for her and silently quitting soon afterward to concentrate on the side business she ran with friends. This isn’t the part where success kicked in, however; the business soon failed, leaving Lu with an AU$60,000 debt and a nagging fear she’d never be able to dig herself out of the hole. “It was horrible; I had nothing to fall back on – no job, no luck of finding a new job in the midst of the global financial crisis and far too much pride to tell my parents that I had dropped everything I had worked so hard for only to fail,” she remembers. “I knew the only thing I could really do was to start another business, and since I had little hope of getting investors on board or bank loans, I knew I was going to have to hustle like I’ve never hustled before.”

Seeing the opportunity in the online fast fashion market, Lu decided to start her own, teaching herself how to build a website by Googling ‘how to use HTML’ and ordering her first shipments on consignment to avoid spending money she didn’t have. No small feat, but Lu’s biggest challenge as she tells it was keeping up with the pretence to her parents that she still had her accountancy job, leaving the house every day in a suit and empty laptop bag while working on building Showpo to a point where she could reveal all. It was a charade she kept up for six months.

Still, you can’t help but get the feeling that Lu’s parents must be pleased; what began in 2010 with a couple of shelves of affordable clothing and some well-timed social media campaigns (Lu’s first ‘Face of Showpo’ competition, for example, cost nothing to run but increased followers from 3,000 to 20,000) has grown to a global empire with a team of 43 shipping everything from everything from clothing and homewares to pool toys and reusable cups to over 80 countries. “I was lucky that I launched the business at a time when the big retailers out there didn’t fully utilise social media,” Lu admits. “Either they thought it was a fad or they simply didn’t get it, but social helped us get ahead quickly.”

Keen to pay it forward and inspire others to get out there and ‘just start’, Lu now does the rounds as a keynote speaker, but when it comes to personal success she says she has the privilege of having three such ‘AHA!” moments. “There was the time I realised that even if the business failed, I had enough experience to work for a competitor, so I never have to back to accounting, and there was the time I paid off my parents’ mortgage – a thrill since they sacrificed so much for me when we immigrated to Australia,” Lu reveals. “But the third came when I realised we had people applying for a job with us – not for the sake of working in fashion, but because they love the brand and believe in what we do.”

As Showpo continues to grow (and grow) through product diversity and geographical expansion, Lu takes a moment to consider what the past seven years have delivered.

“Never did I think I would accomplish so much at such a young age,” she admits. “But through the crazy journey, I now know that anything you want in life is possible if you’re willing to work hard for it.”

Showpo, the online retailer with reported revenue of over AU$30M

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We know what separates the wishers from the doers.”

Cyan Ta’eed, Envato

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eaping from living in her parents’ basement to becoming one of Australia’s wealthiest women, what Envato co-founder Cyan Ta’aeed, 38, does next could be the biggest surprise of all.

When you come from a long time of entrepreneurs, from your great-grandmother who was a business-owning pioneer in a time when most women didn’t work, all the way down to your aunts and uncles, what choice do you have? Do you settle for a simple salaried job at the bank, or do you, at the age of 26, create something so unique that you debut in BRW’s Young Rich List 2016 as the top woman to make the cut with an estimated wealth of AU$184 million? The way Ta’aeed speaks of it, the former was not much of a consideration. “My family are all entrepreneurial people,” she told Foundr (foundr.com). “I grew up thinking that was a relatively normal thing to do – to work for yourself.” And work for herself Ta’aeed did.

The road to success was not what you’d call a smooth one. First, there were other businesses on which to grind her teeth – one in jewellery (“It didn’t go well, but I learned a lot about what not to do in the process,” she told Foundr), the other in freelance graphic and web design but she found providing these services didn’t feel satisfying. A conversation with new husband Collis bore fruit; the pair deciding to develop a digital marketplace where people can buy and sell creative digital goods like music, graphics, website themes, video and photos where the creators get the lion’s share of the sales.

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Envato office

could travel and work on the business in their downtime. The couple – along with their friend and co-founder Jim Rung – believed they could knock up a stock flash site in a couple of weeks.

What could possibly go wrong?

In the end, Envato took six months to build – by which time they were in debt, living in Ta’aeed’s parents’ basement and working out of their garage. However, by the time the business did launch in 2006, no one was more shocked by how quickly it took off than Ta’aeed, explaining to Business Chicks (businesschicks.com.au), that she never expected the company to grow the way it did. “We hit a hole in the market at the right time and luckily managed to develop quickly enough to capitalise on that,” she said.

Today, Envato has a team of over 300, is the recipient of multiple awards such as Australia’s top exporter for the creative industries and regularly appears high on the list of the best places to work in Australia. Despite the company’s success, Ta’aeed stepped away from an operations role in the company (she still serves on the board) last year to focus on what Ta’aeed says were other opportunities banging at her door. “For quite some time I said no because I was afraid of failing,” she told Engaging Women (engagingwomen.com.au) after she won the

2015 Telstra Victoria Business Woman of the Year award. “It was only when I started saying ‘yes’ that things started happening.”

For Ta’aeed, a mother of two young children, ‘yes’ has meant founding New Day Box (newdaybox.org) which distributes resources to women in domestic violence crisis centres, taking on speaking gigs, advocating for diversity in tech, and most recently, creating and launching an artisanal chocolate business Hey Tiger (heytiger.com.au), which doubles as a social enterprise with 50c from each full-size bar going to The Hunger Project (thp.org.au), which works to sustainably end hunger.

There’s no doubt it’s a lot to achieve at such an early age, but Ta’aeed is keen to point out entrepreneurship is a skill like no other, and that practice makes perfect. “It’s very easy when you look at people who’ve done exceptional things to think somehow that they’re different,” she told Engaging Women. “I used to think, ‘One day I will do exceptional things, but I always felt it wasn’t me now and then one day I came to the realisation I was never going to have the master plan. I’d never have to confidence to think, ‘Of course’ I can do this’”. Ta’aeed’s advice? Do it anyway, for you never know just where you might land.

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Earlier this year both Dropbox and Spotify went public. With both companies founded by young guns under thirty, Matthew Field from The Interview People uncovers how the juggernauts got to where they are today.

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I can’t even count the number of things that have gone wrong.”

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rew Houston is not your typical chief executive.

Unlike many founders, the now 35-year old became one of a rare breed who took their idea all the way to a public company earlier this year. Dropbox, founded by Houston in 2007, launched a US$9 billion float in New York, the culmination of an 11year journey for the cloud storage company that provides a simple way to save and share files online.

Its rapid growth saw the Dropbox become a viral hit with consumers, and its popularity was such that the late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs once tried to buy it - then threatened to destroy it. With more than 500 million users, Dropbox was hoping to woo Wall Street and vindicate its founder’s decision to turn down Apple.

Here is the Dropbox story.

A coder and problem solver, Houston’s upbringing saw a fascination with computers and gaming from an early age. In an interview with the New York Times, Houston said one of his formative moments was “toddling into the living room... my dad showed me how to write my first couple lines of code in Basic, and that began this odyssey of learning how computers work”.

Houston became, and remains, a keen gamer. He took to looking into the back-end of games he played, beta-testing games for developers. At just 14, he was offered his first job working for a game developer after contacting them about all the bugs he had found in their software.

As a student at MIT, Houston first conceived the idea for Dropbox. Credited as one of his key learning experiences, Houston joined a fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, where he met several other students busy pushing for business success between classes and college life.

Houston says the inspiration for a file-sharing service came after he repeatedly forgot his USB stick while attending classes at university. He found existing apps didn’t work like he wanted. “Nothing just worked,” Houston said in an early Dropbox blog post. “So I started hacking something together for myself and then realized it could solve these problems for a lot of other people.”

Within months of its founding in June 2007, Dropbox had secured funding from one of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, Y Combinator, to turn his idea into

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a business. Houston was paired up with fellow MIT graduate Arash Ferdowsi to take on the cloud.

In 2013, Houston returned to MIT to deliver a commencement address to students. While Dropbox’s rise had been meteoric, the company has had no shortage of issues. That it has never been profitable is one of the key concerns of investors (although it turns over around US$1bn a year), while the challenges of growing a Silicon Valley company for a young founder and team were evident.

“As you might expect, building this company has been the most exciting, interesting and fulfilling experience of my life,” Houston told MIT students. “What I haven’t really shared is that it’s also been the most humiliating, frustrating and painful experience too, and I can’t even count the number of things that have gone wrong.”

Dropbox also struggled to convert the popularity of its app, which grew from around one million users in 2010 to 500 million by 2016, into profits.

The company has never been profitable, and its approach of being consumer-focused came under pressure. In 2009, just two years after founding the company, Houston and co-founder Arash Ferdowsi were asked by Apple’s chief executive, at his peak as the iPhone launched the smartphone revolution, to come to a private meeting.

Jobs apparently offered to pay hundreds of millions

Banner on the New York Stock Exchange celebrating the IPO of the streaming music service Spotify

of dollars to acquire the company, but when Houston refused, called it a “feature, not a product.” Houston said Jobs told him if Dropbox wouldn’t join Apple he would “kill us with iCloud.”

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potify has become the star of a struggling music industry. Launched in 2008, the music streaming service made its founder Daniel Ek, 35, a billionaire when the company listed earlier this year. Its success is a far cry from the seemingly inexorable decline of the music industry when it was founded.

A millionaire at just 23 years, Swedish entrepreneur Ek already seemed set for life. The computer whizz kid had cashed in on one of his first ventures and in 2006 was wealthy enough to consider early retirement.

However, soon he had started work on a venture that would shake up the failing music industry, create a new breed of music company and force the sector to wake up to the impact, and potential, of the digital age.

Spotify now has 157 million users, including more than 70 million paying subscribers. It has built a music force that has double the paying members of Apple. It is a rare European start-up that has beaten out even Silicon Valley giants.

In a 2010 interview with The Telegraph, Ek said his company would soon be worth “tens of billions” and that he would “never be interested in selling”. Few founders find that confidence vindicated.

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Music was too important to me to let piracy take down the industry.”

Daniel Ek, Spotify Founder

In his letter to investors published earlier this year, Ek credited his childhood with giving him a passion for music and technology. Growing up in Rågsved, Sweden, at 14 Ek began his first business as a teenager out of his bedroom charging US$100 a go to build websites, according to a profile by Pando.

A university dropout, Ek worked for several tech companies before founding an advertising company called Advertigo, which he sold for more than US$1M in 2006. As a millionaire in his early twenties, Ek lived a life of parties and even considered early retirement, yet just months later he was working on plans for Spotify.

Ek’s own love of music is broad, with early favourites including Led Zeppelin and the Beatles, but his own personal Spotify shows tastes varying into hiphop, RnB, dance and spanning the decades.

In the mid-2000s, iTunes was coming to dominate paid-for digital music, but still could not compare in ease of use to many pirated music sites. Ek grew up on file-shared music in the Napster generation and Sean Parker, the founder of Napster, was an early Spotify investor.

Ek hoped to bring easy the user experience that pirated music had created while turning the music business into a 21st-century industry and bringing music from around the world to listeners.

Spotify’s model was fundamentally opposed to what some in the music industry wanted from the rise of digital music. In 2008 when Spotify launched, the music industry was struggling with resurgent piracy and more than a decade of revenue decline. In his letter to investors, Ek noted: “Music was too important to me to let piracy take down the industry.”

Spotify set up, controversially, as a “freemium” platform. Gaining customers through subscribing for free music, then offering a premium, paid-for service. Giving away music is not to all tastes, and the site has had long-running disputes with artists such as Taylor Swift and Adele, but record labels have since come on board.

Its features have also made it hugely popular, such as its Discover Weekly playlists that can find hidden gems for personal tastes, to shareable playlists users can curate.

With its exploding growth Spotify entered the US in 2011. It also had a head start on Apple Music, which only launched in 2015, and rivals like Amazon’s Music Unlimited or Tidal.

Meanwhile, Spotify has slowly pushed more users into paying for its model.

Despite this growth and widespread success in Europe and beyond, Spotify still has a huge market to crack. Ek has noted that, still, most people who listen to music online don’t pay for it.

However, following a long decline, Spotify is one of the forces driving growth in the music industry.

“Today, Spotify is one of the largest drivers of global music revenue,” Ek wrote to investors about the float. “We’ve helped restore a rapidly shrinking industry to growth, and connected over a million artists with hundreds of millions of fans.”

Spotify is now plotting its next steps. Future plans could even include hardware, like its own smart speaker, while cutting losses and adding subscribers will also be key. In a note to the company, Ek said: “It’s the day after, and the following day that matters.”

He signed off with lyrics from Daft Punk: “Harder, better, faster, stronger.”

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30 GREAT READS

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MODERNISM REDISCOVERED Julius Shulman This book offers privileged access to Shulman’s extraordinary archives with some 200 images paying homage to the multifarious forms of modernism.

Imagine It Forward Beth Comstock

Customer Service Mindset Jaquie Scammell

Work Like a Woman Mary Portas

Fix Your Team

A Life Less Stressed Dr. Ron Ehrlich

Former vice chair of GE, and longtime head of innovation and change tackles the biggest issue in business: how to stay nimble, faster, and constantly evolve.

Scammell has studied six Australian organisations that provide the best customer service and offers a unique system to increase loyalty.

A bold manifesto about why the way we work now is in desperate need of change and why we will all - men and women - profit from the change.

A practical guide for managers on how to get a dysfunctional team back on track.

A holistic guide to the stresses that wear us down and the simple changes we can make to lead more resilient lives.

Rose Bryant-Smith and Grevis Beard

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FERRARI Pino Allievi Limited to 1,947 signed copies by Piero Ferrari, this leather-bound Collector’s Edition is enclosed in an aluminium display case signed by Marc Newson and includes never before seen Ferrari archival images.

Food

Smart Carbs Luke Hines Hines demystifies the different approaches to carbohydrates and helps to understand how to make carbohydrates work for you.

FODMAP Friendly Georgia McDermott McDermott shares over 90 recipes that are not only delicious but will help relieve the uncomfortable symptoms of an unsettled gut.

The Cook’s Apprentice Stephanie Alexander The essential teaching cookbook for the younger cook who’s just starting out with over 300 delicious recipes for a lifetime of enjoyment in the kitchen.

The 25 Minute Meeting Donna McGeorge

Fashion Climbing Bill Cunningham

From the best-selling author of Flying Solo, The 1 Minute Commute reveals how to take creative charge of your career and be your own boss.

McGeorge draws upon decades of experience with organisations such as Nissan and L’Oreal, to provide a practical guide on how to efficiently recover your time.

This is the enchanting and vibrant memoir by the legendary New York Time’s fashion photography Bill Cunningham.

Family Hetty McKinnon

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The 1 Minute Commute Robert Gerrish

McKinnon shares her approach to modern, uncomplicated, hearty and healthy food that is powered by vegetables.

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ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: THE EARLY YEARS, 1970!1983 Luc Sante and Jann S. Wenner

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This incredibly curated collection, including Polaroids and contact sheets, provides an insight into Leibovitz’s development as a young artist.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Around the World in 125 Years. Africa 200 captivating images sourced directly from the National Geographic historical archives, including photographs that traverse the landscapes, history, cultures, and wildlife.

The Hunter David Cohen

Leadership Hacks Scott Stein

Projectify Jeff Schwisow

Chasing Digital Anthony Stevens

Speeches of Note Shaun Usher

In these award-winning stories shortlisted for The Dorothy Hewett Award, Cohen explores the oddities of human behaviour with wit and brilliance.

Modern leaders are expected to do more with less, so how can you ‘hack’ your leadership to ensure you can still make a real impact?

A practical guide to projectifying your strategy to engage your team, increase your leadership impact, and get things done.

Stevens provides a practical framework to help businesses create a new competitive advantage in the digital economy.

An obsessively curated collection of speeches from throughout the ages with seventy-six extraordinary ways to step into someone else’s shoes.

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Non Fiction

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No Spin Shane Warne

THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL LIBRARIES Massimo Listri In this new photographic journey, Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest libraries to reveal their architectural, historical, and imaginative wonder.

No Spin offers a compelling insight into how a boy from Black Rock changed the face of cricket forever.

Winging It Emma Isaacs The founder and global CEO of Business Chicks, Isaacs is a successful entrepreneur. Emma shows us that often the only thing holding us back is ourselves.

Madonna: An Intimate Biography of an Icon at Sixty J. Randy Taraborrelli A brilliant biography full of vivid detail, based on decades of research and interviews with people speaking of her publicly for the first time.

Robin: The Definitive Biography of Robin Williams David Itzkoff

Where History Happened Peter Spearritt

Captured Lives Peter Monteath

This book reveals the hidden past of some of Australia’s most intriguing towns and places, from mining settlements and remote caves and historic houses in our capital cities.

Historian Peter Monteath provides a captivating look behind the barbed wire veil providing an insider’s look into what life was like for prisoners of war.

Mind Behind the Crime Dr. Helen McGrath and Cheryl Critchley Nurses and neighbours, partners and parents - all murderers who shocked Australia with the severity of their crimes. But what makes them tick?

Drawing on original interviews, as well as extensive archival research, Robin is a fresh look at a man whose work touched so many lives.

A Higher Loyalty James Comey Former FBI director Comey, shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades.

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THRIVE IN AN AGE OF DISRUPTION 5-time bestselling author and trends forecaster Michael McQueen, shares the essential keys to future-proofing any business in the face of disruption.

In June 2015, the retiring CEO of Cisco, John Chambers startled much of the business world when he predicted that, ‘40 percent of businesses (today) would not exist in a meaningful way in 10 years.’

While you could dismiss this statement as misguided hyperbole, Chambers may well have been spot on. After all, the average lifespan of a major listed company has already shrunk from 67 years (in the 1920s) to just 15 years (today).

The coming years will be marked by disruption that has the potential to threaten the relevance and survival of many businesses. The impact of AI, nanotechnology, 3D printing, autonomous vehicles and blockchain are hard to overestimate. Moreover, that is just the beginning.

In the face of such rapid and widescale change, it is critical to prepare now for what lies ahead.

Having spent much of the last decade working with some of the most visionary organizations and leaders on the planet, I would suggest that there are three essential keys to future-proofing any business in the face of disruption:

1 Dig the Well Before You Get Thirsty If you wait till a crisis unfolds, you will be operating from a position of survival, not strategy.

It is always best to innovate and reinvent yourself when times are good. That said, it requires visionary leadership and courage to embrace change and embark on reinvention when there appears to be no pressing reason to do so.

Recently working with Toyota’s leadership, I was struck by an ethos within the company that originated with its former chairman Hiroshi Okuda. Always reform business when business is good, Okuda repeatedly urged.

More than a pithy quote, this principle has been critical to the enduring success of legendary brands such as DuPont, Corning and National Cash Register (NCR) who each preempted disruption and therefore flourished rather than floundered when it hit.

2 Focus on Friction Friction in business; loosely defined as anything that creates complexity, confusion, frustration or irritation to your customer. Put simply; it is anything that negatively affects the customer experience.

While a commitment to enhancing the customer experience is an innately valuable pursuit for any business, becoming obsessive about friction is critical in this age of disruption. Why? Because the friction you are unwilling to acknowledge, or address will be the very thing that leaves you vulnerable to being disrupted.

With technology lowering the barriers to entry in every industry, there is no shortage of agile, hungry, customer-focused start-ups who will eagerly storm into your market with the intent of making your customer’s life easier. Taking your customer for granted by ignoring friction gives emerging competitors the foothold they are looking for.

The example of Transferwise’s entry into the currency exchange business is a powerful case-in-point.

Capitalizing on consumers’ enduring frustration with the cost and time-lag involved in transferring money across international borders, Transferwise entered the market with a solution so cheap and simple that they have utterly disrupted the incumbent industry leaders and left them scrambling to catch up.

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3 Foster Healthy Paranoia The two essential attitudes of any disruption-proof business are hunger and humility. The moment you think you have ‘made it,’ you have passed it. There is no room for complacency or arrogance in an increasingly complex and competitive world.

Healthy paranoia is by far the best antidote for complacency and arrogance. Operating every day like you have a target painted on your back will keep you on your toes. It will ensure you stay hungry for the next opportunity and humble enough to remain open to new ways of doing things.

At the core of Facebook’s corporate DNA is a belief that could almost be a definition of healthy paranoia. Mark Zuckerberg goes to great lengths to ensure that everyone in the business operates with the mentality that ‘If we don’t create the thing that kills Facebook, someone else will.’

Imagine if every member of your team came into work each day with that philosophy? While it may be an

uncomfortable notion at first glance, this sort of healthy paranoia is precisely what’s required to stay on your A-game and one step ahead of disruption.

Ignoring or fighting the disruptions that are poised to impact your business is futile. In the face of change, the only option we have to adapt. To paraphrase the great Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, resisting change is like trying to hold your breath – even if you’re successful, it won’t end well. It will be much the same in the business world in the coming years.

Michael McQueen’s latest book ‘How to Prepare Now for What’s Next’ examines the fundamental disruptions that will shape the coming decade and outlines a game plan for staying one step ahead of change.

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Tory Burch

BUILDING THE $4.5B BRAND Tory Burch built a multibillion-dollar fashion brand with no business training. Bethan Holt from The Interview People sat down with her to uncover her journey so far.

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he last place you would expect to find Tory Burch is in a veterinary anatomy lecture hall in Germany. After all, she is the impeccably poised fashion designer who has made a billion-dollar fortune from her ability to sell her vision of a sleek but bohemian lifestyle to women around the world. If you aspire to the style of a modern Jacqueline Kennedy or Marisa Berenson, Burch is your gal.

She is on a flying visit to Berlin in her capacity as luxury e-commerce site MyTheresa’s latest MyTheresa Woman. Chosen for their combination of style and substance, past honourees have included Liv Tyler and Victoria Beckham.

Naturally, there will later be an opulent dinner, but for now, Burch is offering her business insights and advice to a packed room of students from Humboldt University.

‘I’m so fascinated by the younger generation and how engaged they are, and it always gives me hope,’ she offers by way of explanation for the talk’s place on her schedule.

Over the years, Burch has carefully nurtured her own legend. As she speaks to her audience, she describes herself as a onetime ‘farm girl’ and thanks ‘y’all’ for coming.

She explains how most of her best friends are the people she met at high school and

college and how her parents always taught her that ‘you should treat a cab driver the same as the Queen of England.’

However, Burch’s tale is full of twists and turns unique to the super-rich and superambitious.

Earlier in the day, I find her perched on the edge of a rococo sofa in the grand lobby of one of Berlin’s plush hotels, the Adlon. She is wearing a geo-printed silk skirt, w wa City-boy-blue ruffled shirt and a nipped-waist tobacco blazer. A hint of wit winks through via a pair of dangly silver fork-and-spade earrings. At 51, she has a glowing, line-free, bronzed complexion, honey-blonde hair and a figure honed by a lifetime of tennis and running. ‘I’m not worried about ageing,’ she shrugs.

One also cannot help but notice the gobstopper cluster of diamonds on her left hand – the vintage engagement ring given to her by fiancé Pierre-Yves Roussel, the chairman, and CEO of luxury fashion group LVMH, on whom Burch first set eyes during a business meeting.

They now juggle the chaos of a blended nine-child family (he has three sons, she has three sons and three stepdaughters), living mostly between New York, The Hamptons, Antigua, and Paris.

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Tory Burch is the woman who launched a ladieswho-lunch look for a generation that is more likely to drink a green juice between gym classes and work. ‘My label is about women who are interesting, intellectually curious, stylish, busy and doing things,’ she explains.

‘I mean, one of the problems I wanted to solve for women was to make things that were effortless and chic.’

Her spring/summer collection was inspired by the late British interior designer David Hicks’s bold flourishes and sophisticated eye for detail, while autumn/winter took Jackie Kennedy’s sister Lee Radziwill as its muse.

In both cases, Burch’s mind-boggling social connections gave her a singular viewpoint; she borrowed some of Hicks’s old scrapbooks from his son Ashley, who is a friend, while Radziwill is also an acquaintance, so Tory was able to take inspiration from conversations with her, as well as the particular shade of pink of her sofa.

Tory Robinson grew up on a farm in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania with her brothers Robert and James as playmates. She describes an idyllic childhood spent climbing trees and running wild on the family’s 30 acres of land.

Her parents, Buddy (a wealthy investor) and Reva (a former actor), had style. ‘I always think my dad

should have been a designer because he had the most amazing details with his clothing – the cuff of a shirt or his dinner jackets lined with Hermès scarf silk,’ she remembers. ‘And my mom too. Less is more in her mind, and she always says, “The clothes can’t wear you,” and, “It has to be about the woman.”

She always looked great in just a shirt dress and a swept-back, wet ponytail.’ One of Burch’s signature – and bestselling – designs is a simple ballerina pump which she named Reva, after her mother.

After shaking off some of her tomboyish ways, she discovered a love of fashion via her mother’s couture wardrobe. She studied art history at the University of Pennsylvania, then moved to New York to work for the Yugoslav designer Zoran, one of Reva’s favourites and ‘the original minimalist with hair like Rasputin and a vodka habit which began at 10 am each day’.

In New York Burch, who claims to be quite shy, juggled a career working for Harper’s Bazaar, Vera Wang and Ralph Lauren with immersing herself in the city’s social scene. She dated Matthew Mellon, the banking heir who went on to marry Jimmy Choo executive Tamara.

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Tory Burch boutique in Milan, models walks the runway at the Tory Burch Fall Winter New York 2018 fashion show.

She also had a short-lived marriage to William Macklowe, before eventually settling down in 1996 with Chris Burch, who had made his money at the affordable end of the clothing industry with a company called Eagle’s Eye. Soon Burch was pregnant with twin boys, Henry and Nicholas. Chris already had three daughters from his first marriage – Alexandra, Elizabeth and Louisa – so they rapidly became a family of seven, living in an apartment at The Pierre hotel overlooking Central Park.

By then, Burch was climbing the ladder working in PR and advertising at Spanish fashion house Loewe, but when she had a third son, Sawyer, she gave it up.

‘I realised I would not be able to do a good job, so I took four years off,’ she says. While juggling three kids under four, an idea formed for the company she runs now: ‘I knew I wanted to work, and I also wanted to help people and give back.’

At first, the Tory Burch USP was her pitch as a real woman designing clothes that were more special than those you’d find on the high street, but not so astronomically expensive that they were off limits. She was a successor to the likes of Diane von Furstenberg and Donna Karan, but she elevated her designs with a feeling of grandeur and exoticism – Arabian palace tile prints, country club cover-ups and an opulent logo, which looks a little like a bejewelled crucifix or aristocratic family stamp.

The concept, which she worked on with Chris, was a hit: they made $80,000 on the first day her store opened and when Oprah Winfrey told the world in 2005 that Tory Burch was ‘the next big thing’, the website got eight million hits.

In the 14 years since the launch, the fashion industry has transformed, and the Tory Burch premise of stylish clothes for real life is now the norm, rather than the exception. So where does this leave her? She has launched a sportswear line, Tory Sport, created a fragrance and written a bestselling book, Tory Burch: In Color. She is also deemed one of the world’s most powerful female billionaires by Forbes and is an outspoken voice for women’s empowerment, as the head of a foundation that helps female entrepreneurs.

What’s it like to be so powerful? I ask. ‘You’ll have to tell my boys that, they bring you right back down to earth,’ she demurs. I remember seeing her backstage at her autumn/ winter 2018 show at New York Fashion Week in February. It was a hubbub of glamorous chaos with swan-like Burch at its epicentre, but as soon as she spotted Sawyer, now 16, she clicked into mother mode, telling him to hurry up and get to school.

The Tory Burch Foundation was part of the plan from the very beginning, a business strategy that confounded many of the investors and advisers she approached at the start. ‘I was told never to say “business” and “social responsibility” in the same sentence then, so it

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was almost like “charity work,”’ she remembers, giving herself a faux patronising pat on the back. She is adamant that the charitable arm helps her to turn a profit now, attracting great employees and socially conscious customers.

She was recently a keynote speaker at a conference about the future of business being responsibility. Afterwards, she called the man who had given her the advice not to combine the two. ‘Of course, he wrote us a cheque.’ she says wryly.

While she doesn’t ‘do politics’, she does feel passionate about ‘humanity... I’m proud that some people have not given us a cheque.’

To date, the foundation has given US$36 million in low-interest business loans in partnership with Bank of America, 170 women have completed business-education courses, and 200,000 have had access to online tools. Burch speaks passionately about how having a baby can push many women under the poverty line, and her admiration for those with the determination to do two or three jobs as they try to launch their ideas. Next, she’d like to take the foundation international.

Many may have dismissed Burch as a socialite with a pet project, but her idea was crystal clear and agenda-changing from the beginning. ‘I always wanted to build a global lifestyle brand so I could start a foundation for women in business. When I hear myself saying it now, in retrospect, it’s a bit embarrassing.’ Embarrassing?

‘Yes, I had no idea what it really would entail to grow a globalised style brand and a foundation without any business training in what it meant to run a company and to be a CEO, let alone a designer, so I really had to learn on the job.’

Another word Burch isn’t afraid to use is ‘ambitious.’ ‘It really started 13 years ago when there was an article in The New York Times, and a friend of mine read it and said, “A good article, but you shied away from the word ‘ambition.’”

She was someone I really admired in business, and ever since then, I wanted to change that hurtful stereotype. I thought, “Why am I shying

away? Why am I not proud to be ambitious? Why is it OK for a man to be ambitious?”’

She has recruited friends such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Julianne Moore, and Reese Witherspoon to support the foundation’s Embrace Ambition campaign. Last week she hosted a summit – Embrace Ambition 2.0 – where the focus was on ambition, stereotype, and bias.

‘One thing that’s different is that we’re including men in the conversation, because we can talk to women all day and they’ll agree with us, but if we don’t get men in on this topic, things will not move forward. It should be a given; equal pay shouldn’t be a favour.’

Tory and Chris separated in 2006, but he retained a 28 percent stake in the company, and a place on the board. However, relations between them turned ugly in 2011, when he began C.Wonder, a clothing and accessories brand that seemed to take its cues from Tory’s retro-chic signature.

A long legal battle ensued, until eventually Chris closed the label, sold his stake in Tory Burch and endured millions of dollars in losses.

Although she won’t speak directly about the split and business wranglings, Burch does make some pointed comments about originality. ‘I would never want us to do anything referential,’ she says. ‘I don’t want anything to slip through the cracks; we need to push to be creative on our terms – I’m a perfectionist.’

Later, at the dinner MyTheresa hosts in Burch’s honour, she and Roussel chat with actors Michelle Dockery and Vanessa Kirby. It was in a meeting with LVMH, in 2012, to discuss a possible sale, that the couple met.

In the end, she took investment from BDT Partners and General Atlantic. She has resisted going public, and the most recent estimates put the company’s value at US$3.5 billion. Eventually, the pair’s business relationship became romantic.

‘We’ve always kept things pretty separate, but he’s the most brilliant person I’ve ever met, so it is wonderful to hear his take on things,’ she says. They plan to marry soon. No doubt it will be the most meticulously planned and tastefully decorated society wedding of the year.

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GREAT EUROPEAN ESCAPES

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It is easy to use an apartment in Paris as your home away from home and then set out for short trips to these 30 historic or gourmet destinations within France and across Europe.

All are easily reached from Paris by train or short-haul flight.

Former Paris resident Winsor Dobbin is your tour guide.

You’ve shopped until you dropped, visited the Louvre and walked the bridges of the Seine. You’ve found your own little corner of Paris in which to base yourself.

1. BRAGA: North of Porto, this delightful small city is one of Portugal’s undiscovered gems; and the centre of the Vinho Verde wine region. Many of the buildings in Braga date back over 2,000 years, and the Braga Cathedral is particularly beautiful. With a population of around 200,000 Braga is an excellent city for strolling around and is easily accessed via Porto’s Sá Carneiro International Airport, 50 kilometres away.

2. VIENNA: The Austrian capital is a city of culture, history, music, and food. Choose from the many kaffeehaus (café) options, beisls (bistro pubs) or konditorei (cake shops). Café Sperl is a grand Art Deco

coffee house, Demel is famous for its arrays of cakes, including sachertorte, and Beim Czaak is known for its traditional meat dishes like Wiener schnitzel and tafelspitz, a boiled beef stew.

3. MILAN: Terribly stylish and very expensive, Milan is the fashion capital of Italy and full of impressive buildings and churches. Take Tram No.1 for a budget tour through the old quarter and make sure to visit the dramatic Milan Duomo (Cathedral) with its 135 spires and 3,200 statues. Take a walk through the elegant Galleria Vittorio Emanuelle II shopping precinct and try to snag a ticket to the La Scala opera house.

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4. SAN SEBASTIAN: This Basque city, just across the border from France, is a gastronomic hotspot with a trio of restaurants with three Michelin stars and dozens of small bars serving the Basque equivalent of tapas, known as pintxos. This elegant spot is dotted with beaches facing the Bay of Biscay and is just 12 kilometres south of the French border.

5. LJUBLJANA: Slovenia’s under-rated capital is one of Europe’s prettiest and most accessible cities. Home to just under 300,000 people, nearly all its major attractions are found along the banks of the delightful Ljubljanica River. Over 2,000 years old, Ljubljana reminds one of Prague before the crowds and is dotted with cafés, riverside eateries, and markets.

superb museums, and historic buildings. Albi is surrounded by vineyards (think names like Gaillac and Côtes du Frontonnais).

7. CAHORS: This pretty city in the Query district of south-west France is famous for the “black” malbec wines that have been grown here since the Middle Ages. The medieval quarter, with its narrow streets and alleyways and the unique 14th-century, fortified Valentré bridge make it popular with history buffs, and it hosts a major blues music festival each July. Catch a train from Paris Gare de Austerlitz.

8. AMSTERDAM: Just a three-hour train ride from Paris on the Thalys fast train, the biggest city in the Netherlands is a party destination. It is best-known for its many canals, which date back to the 17th century and the Van Gogh Museum, which specialises in works by Vincent van Gogh.

One of the most popular tourist destinations is the Heineken Brewery, which is now a museum.

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6. ALBI: Just a short drive from the major city of Toulouse, Albi is one of France’s last remaining secret treasures. The birthplace of the artist Toulouse Lautrec and explorer Jean-Francois de la Perouse, this ancient city on the River Tarn has a remarkable cathedral,

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9. PRAGUE: The Czech capital is known for its many bars and restaurants but also offers a range of art galleries ranging from Art Nouveau, Cubism and Constructivism, while many of the city’s public spaces feature sculptures by the eccentric David Cerny. Be sure to visit the medieval Astronomical Clock, and the pedestrian Charles Bridge, which dates to 1402.

10. VANNES: The delightful pre-Roman town of Vannes, founded over 2,000 years ago, is far enough off the tourist track in Brittany to ensure it retains its charm. Stroll shaded laneways with half-timbered houses and shops built in medieval times or explore the lively marina quarter. Visitors should try the local galettes, pancakes served savoury and sweet, and Breton ciders.

11. HEIDELBERG: This university town on the Neckar River in southwestern Germany is a beautiful spot to chill out for a day or two. It’s known for the venerable Heidelberg University, founded in the 14th century.

Don’t miss historic Heidelberg Castle, while the Christmas markets are among the best in Germany.

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12. HONFLEUR: A small fishing port in Normandy, Honfleur has strong claims to be regarded as the most picturesque town in France – and can be busy during summer. Handsome terraced houses with slate-covered frontages look onto the picturesque fishing port and fleet. Enjoy a lunch of fresh local seafood and try the local apple brandy, known as Calvados.

13. BRUSSELS: The Belgian capital is less than 90 minutes from Paris using the Thalys train link between Gare du Nord and Brussels Sud. The Grand Place, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is the main tourist attraction and functions as a flower market during summer. Among the “must visit” attractions are the tiny but popular Manneken-Pis statue and fountain, and the Jeu de Balle flea market.

14. BEAUNE: This delightful town of winding laneways is the centrepiece of the Burgundy wine trade and sits midway between Paris and Geneva. It is a place of pilgrimage for wine and food lovers and is dotted with wine bars, tasting facilities, and eateries.

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15. TREVISO: This attractive town is the biggest in the Prosecco sparkling wine region and was the birthplace of tiramisu. It is a delightful spot boasting several small canals. It is dotted with cafés and restaurants, and there is a cycle path along the Sile River that extends all the way to Jesolo on the Adriatic sea.

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16. LAUSANNE: The fourth-largest city in Switzerland sits across Lake Geneva from the French town of Evian les Bains. A large student population makes for lively nightlife and arts communities centred on the Flon district.

The city traces its history back to Roman times and there are trains daily from Gare de Lyon in Paris. Ferries serve Evian, Montreux and Geneva.

17. ERICEIRA: A fishing village that’s popular as a weekend destination for Lisbon residents, Ericeira has undergone recent development although the waterfront area retains its rustic charm with traditional blue and whitepainted cottages overlooking the Atlantic ocean. The town is known for its surf beaches and eateries, where you can feast on local sardines and bottles of crisp Vinho Verde. Flights from Paris to Lisbon take around 2 ½ hours.

18. AACHEN: Right on the border with Belgium and the Netherlands and known in French as Aix-La-Chappelle, this German spa city has a cathedral that was founded in 800 AD. Its hot springs are known as the hottest in Europe. The marketplace is home to the International Newspaper Museum with a collection of more than 200,000 newspapers.

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19. AVIGNON: This beautiful and historic city in Provence is home to one of the leading arts festivals in Europe and was the seat of the Popes of the Catholic Church between 1309 to 1377. It is de rigueur to tour the Palais des Papes in the city centre, but it is just as enjoyable to enjoy lunch and a few glasses of rosé. Avignon sits on the left bank of the River Rhone and is surrounded by vineyards.

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20. DUBLIN: Several airlines fly from Paris to the Irish capital of Dublin in around one hour 40 minutes. It’s a fascinating destination on the River Liffey where history combines with music, nightlife and the traditional Irish love of having a good time, known as craic. “Must see” attractions include Dublin Castle and the Temple Bar area with its lively pubs offering Guinness and traditional live music.

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21. LONDON: Dozens of Eurostar trains make the two and ½-hour journey daily between Paris Gare du Nord and London’s St Pancras station, making the English capital a realistic day trip destination from France. Whether you enjoy history, the pomp and ceremony surrounding the Royal Family, museums, or maybe just the chance to watch a soccer match at Chelsea or Arsenal, London has something for everyone.

22. BUDAPEST: The Hungarian capital is two cities in one: Buda and Pest, one on each of the banks of the River Danube. The 19th-century Chain Bridge links the hilly Buda district with flatter Pest. A funicular railway runs up Castle Hill to Buda’s Old Town. Enjoy spectacular views from Fishermen’s Bastion and Gellert Hill; visit one of the city’s famous thermal baths and sample some hearty goulash in one of the city’s many restaurants.

23. EPERNAY: The Champagne region, under 90 minutes by train from Paris, is a place of pilgrimage for gourmets from around the world with the chalky soil producing the world’s great sparkling wines. The prestigious small town of Epernay is home to many of the most famous Champagne producers, including Moët & Chandon, Pol Roger, and PerrierJouët. Several Champagne houses, many with underground cellars, can be visited in one day.

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24. BRUGES: One of the most under-rated cities in Europe, this city in north-west Belgium is known for its many lovely canals, classic cobbled streets, and many medieval buildings. Small enough to wander around on foot, visitors will love the towering Gothic buildings and the ultra-chic Canal St Martin district.

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25. BORDEAUX: This charming city in south-west France is the undisputed global wine capital, a UNESCO World Heritage site of considerable charm and host of Vinexpo, the world’s largest wine fair. From the Medoc region - home to serious reds and names like Chateau Mouton-Rothschild - to Sauternes, where the world’s greatest sweet wines, including Chateau d’Yquem, are produced, this grand city is surrounded by vineyards.

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26. BARCELONA: Best-visited in the off-season due to its immense popularity, the Catalan city, is a cultural and gourmet centre where visitors can enjoy everything from the eccentric art of Antoni Gaudi and the Sagrada Familia Cathedral to one of the best football teams in the world and some of Europe’s greatest restaurants. Sample a paella overlooking the Mediterranean, or visit museums devoted to the works of Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró.

27. DUBROVNIK: Still a relatively small town, Dubrovnik in Croatia can be overwhelmed by cruise ship passengers during the summer season but is a delight at other times of the year. Stroll the winding streets of the Stari Grad (Old Town). This Dalmatian destination has been transformed from a war zone to the new Nice - a magnet for Europe’s beautiful

people. Dubrovnik is known as the “Pearl of the Adriatic.” Two hours, 25 minutes by plane from Paris.

28. STRASBOURG: Two hours and 20 minutes from Paris by train, the capital of the Alsace region straddles the French and German borders, and the Grande-Île was the first urban centre in France to be listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. Think canals, half-timbered houses, and a towering Gothic cathedral. Enjoy lunch (perhaps local specialities like tarte flambée with a local boutique beer) in Petite France, a picture-postcard quarter in the city’s heart.

29. EDINBURGH: A two-hour flight from Paris, Edinburgh is Scotland’s easily accessible but hilly capital. It has a medieval Old Town and elegant Georgian New Town with several public gardens.

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Towering over the city is the magnificent Edinburgh Castle, home to Scotland’s crown jewels. A bustling and vibrant city, it hosts a variety of colourful festivals throughout the year and is known for its vibrant nightlife.

30. LYON: Under two hours by train from Paris, this elegant city is the culinary capital of France. With Beaujolais to the north and the CĂ´tes du Rhone to the south, it is surrounded by vineyards and many small restaurants, known as bouchons, serving traditional dishes. Think charcuterie like rosette Lyonnais and saucisson de Lyon or hearty fare like andouilletes (tripe sausages) and a traditional chicken casserole (coq au vin)

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HELI SKIING NE W ZE AL AND

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Heliskiing is a variation of skiing where the skier is airlifted to the mountains by a helicopter, and the only way out is downhill. Heliskiing is an amazing and adrenalin packed experience. It’s the ultimate snow experience for every skier or snowboarder who’s up for the challenge.

Imagine being dropped off in the middle of your dream mountain landscape with your fellow thrill-seekers and skiing utterly inaccessible slopes.

What better place to heliski apart from in New Zealand? The views are amazing. Heliskiing has now been made accessible and even more affordable with the activity available for skiers from an intermediate level and above. The New Zealand ski season lasts between June and October, with August having the best conditions to ski.

There are 25 ski fields in New Zealand; 18 of these are commercially run while the rest are run by clubs. Club ski fields are small and not groomed which makes them ideal for intermediate and advanced skiers. The club ski fields are also less crowded compared to the commercial fields. Of the 25, four are in the North Island while the remaining areas are in the South Island.

On the North Island, most of the skiing happens on Mt. Ruapehu whose high altitude guarantees snow on its peak all year round.

This volcano has the highest lift access and the longest vertical drop.

The South Island has three main ski regions: Christchurch-Canterbury, Queenstown-Wanaka, and Mount Cook-Mackenzie. If you can’t decide on a ski field or region, consider visiting a couple.

Stay safe; always wear a helmet and wrist guards. Also, make sure that you choose the right terrain that suits your ability - there are heli-skiing adventures for skiers of intermediate ability and above. All you need is the want to experience the sheer thrill of it.

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ADRENALINE ADVENTURES Are you feeling worn out by your daily routine? Annabelle Richmond has compiled a few adventures to get adrenaline pumping.

Southern Lakes Heliski

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The vehicles slide down the dunes sideways, which offers a guaranteed edge-of-your-seat type of excitement”

DESERT DUNE BASHING DUBAI, UAE Dubai also offers a thing or two for those with a craving for an adrenaline rush. The extreme adventures are either land-based or water-based, and they make Dubai an exciting holiday destination for adventure enthusiasts.

If you’re travelling to the Emirati City, then your trip is not complete unless you go on a desert safari. The vehicles slide down the dunes sideways, which offers a guaranteed edge-of-your-seat type of excitement. Dubai has a wide array of adventure sports for people to participate. Bring out the daredevil in you by going on a desert safari on Dubai’s rugged desert terrain. Other thrills that you can engage in include dune-bashing; this involves driving up and down the dunes in 4WD vehicles. Driving 4WD vehicles gives you a thrill that you cannot find from other vehicles.

The idea of dune bashing involves crushing down the slopes of dunes from great heights to intensify the adrenaline rush. A Hummer H2 is the most recommended vehicle for this kind of sport but hang on tight.

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BUNGEE JUMPING MACAU, CHINA

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Bungee jumping is the most common extreme adventure in the world that offers immediate and visceral thrills. Here’s how it works: you attach a long rubber band to yourself and secure the other end to a fixed object then throw yourself off a tall structure such as a tower or bridge. The views from the top are generally exhilarating and spectacular.

You do not need to have any special skills to bungee jump, just enough courage. Are you ready to take the plunge? The Macau Tower in Macau, China is an excellent place to bungee jump. The tower is the world’s highest commercial bungee jump at the height of 223 metres. This feature makes Macau a favourite among the adrenaline junkies.

Nothing matches the thrill of jumping from a great height and free falling through the air and then just as you’re about to hit the ground the cord jerks and cuts the fall. The feeling you experience will be the same no matter how many times you have bungee jumped in the past.

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Swimming with these giants of the deep sea is a rare yet incredibly wild experience.

Scuba Diver approaching a whale shark

SWIMMING WITH WHALE SHARKS NINGALOO REEF, AUSTRALIA The Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia is a place that you’re almost guaranteed to see a whale shark in certain periods of the year. The Reef is a UNESCO World Heritage Marine Park where marine life thrives.

Ningaloo is close to the shore, so it’s easy to walk out to it in a mask and flippers. It also boasts of the world’s largest fringing reef. Whale sharks usually congregate along the reef between March and August; you can, however, spot one in the area as late as October.

The reason why Ningaloo is favourable for whale congregation is due to the food pulses, the nutrientrich water, deep waters, and optimum temperatures of between 21 and 30 degrees.

Whale sharks are the biggest species of fish found in the sea, with Ningaloo Reef whale sharks measuring up to 36 feet and they feed solely on plankton. These gentle creatures pose no threat to humans so you can get up close to one without much worry, but the knowledge that they are gentle creatures doesn’t make the adrenaline rush any less exciting.

Swimming with these giants of the deep sea is a rare yet incredibly wild experience. The whale sharks at Ningaloo Reef are magical. Finding yourself in their presence is a moment rarely forgotten. Ningaloo Reef allows visitors to experience the presence of a whale shark without actually requiring scuba equipment.

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Colorado river rafting

WHITEWATER RAFTING GRAND CANYON, USA Rafting the Grand Canyon is a thrilling expedition for those with an adventurous spirit. These expeditions make it possible for people to travel along the river via the world’s famous whitewater and experience some of the most thrilling rapids on the Colorado River.

This expedition will let you experience the pure thrill and absolute serenity. This adventure activity will help you to unplug from the distractions of the world and get in touch with nature, whilst getting your adrenaline pumping on the downhill rapids.

Rafting through the breathtaking scenery of the Grand Canyon is a truly life-changing experience. The spectacular white rapids are followed by stretches of calm water allowing you to catch your breath between rapids.

If you desire to see the Grand Canyon at its unimaginable best, then the best time to visit is in spring and autumn. These seasons have mild temperatures that offer a pleasant environment for exploration; then you will have the opportunity to discover hidden waterfalls and paradisiacal side canyons.

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Bendigo Art Gallery and Cafe

WEEKEND GETAWAY With its historical landmarks, charming streetscapes, beautiful parks and gardens and cool cafés, Bendigo is everything you need and more for a relaxing weekend getaway. Ashlee Long explains.

Bendigo –

the vibrant Victorian city well known for its 1880’s gold rush wealth, is a terrific place for a weekend getaway. Start your morning with a flavourful coffee and award-winning breakfast at Wine Bank on View. Constructed and transformed from a historic gold rush bank into a bar and eatery, it provides the option of enjoying your breakfast by the open fire.

Not only is Wine Bank on View ideal for the morning, but by night, this praiseworthy venue turns into a thriving social hub to relax and enjoy a glass of wine.

Across the street stands the Bendigo Art Gallery.

Established in 1887 and located in Bendigo’s CBD, it is known as one of the largest regional galleries in Australia and is well worth the visit. Spend your late morning admiring the restored 19th-century rooms and gallery spaces with a particular focus on contemporary Australian art.

Inside the Bendigo Art Gallery is the Gallery Café that provides a range of exquisite wine, light meals, cake, and coffee. For brunch, you can enjoy a decadent piece of cake and sip at a warm cup of coffee while sitting outside in their beautiful outdoor dining area overlooking Bendigo’s historical park, Rosalind Park.

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Cheers to a great catch up at Wine Bank on View

The Bendigo nightlife is thriving on Friday and Saturday nights, so if you’re looking for an atmosphere that’s more focused on entertainment and great pub meals, head on over to The Hibernian Hotel. Located just outside the Bendigo CBD in High Street of Golden Square, very close to Quest Bendigo, this vibrant yet relaxing and newly renovated pub is available to satisfy your hunger and thirst while providing live AFL games, TAB facilities, a pool table and cosy fireplace.

If the bar-type atmosphere isn’t for you, The Woodhouse Restaurant located in Williamson Street of the Bendigo CBD is Bendigo’s only Redgum char-grill and dedicated steakhouse using unique techniques cooking only with wood.

Bendigo is the home of many beautifully refurbished and original buildings, cafés, restaurants, stores, and hotels.

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Following brunch, a brisk walk through the beautiful botanic gardens and scenery in Rosalind Park will leave you feeling refreshed.

Coming to the end of your walk through Rosalind Park, you will discover the Golden Dragon Museum.

Dedicated to the history of the Chinese culture and people who immigrated to Bendigo, it was the first accredited museum in Victoria. From amazing displays held at the Bendigo Easter Fair every year, to its Yi Yuan (Garden of Joy), it’s one of Bendigo’s most beautiful and must-see attractions.

For lunch, Bendigo’s highly favourable restaurant, Masons of Bendigo is also located just a block away providing customers with friendly waiters, beautifully cooked Australian food and unique dining experience in a modern atmosphere. Awarded with a ‘Certificate of Excellence’ by Trip Advisor, Masons of Bendigo is known for its service and excellent meals.

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Oxley overnight bag RRP $445 kinnon.com.au Lapoche packing bags RRP from $16.95 lapoche.com

Perfect packing Beth Richards, director, and designer of Kinnon leather and Lapoche travel accessories knows a thing about travel. She shares her weekend packing tips.

In between admiring historic landmarks, beautiful sceneries and experiencing some many award-winning and excellently reviewed cafés, restaurants and bars there is still plenty to do during your weekend getaway.

The Bendigo Performing Arts Centre offers excellent live theatre performances, and the Bendigo Cinema has the Gold Class option for those who want to experience serviced and high-class movie screenings.

If you’re still left wanting more, experience a taste of Bendigo history while taking a tour through the Central Deborah Gold Mine located in the centre of Bendigo, or to end your relaxing weekend getaway in style and tranquillity, visit Refresh Day Spa providing quality treatments, massages, and exceptional service.

Enjoy your Bendigo weekend away at Quest Bendigo, Quest Bendigo Central or Quest Bendigo Schaller Hotel.

It’s standard practice to pack twice the amount of clothes you need for a trip. With a little bit of pre-planning, your weekend away will be off to a great start, minus the stressing about what to pack. Packing is all about compartmentalising. Separating your clothes, shoes and accessories keeps your luggage in order and ensures everything is easy to find in your weekend bag. Luggage organisers will help you pack smarter, minimise clothes creasing, save space and keep you organised.

Here’s list of travel essentials which can become a weekend capsule wardrobe to dress down for daytime exploring or dress up for evenings. ➔ jeans ➔ t-shirts ➔ cashmere/woollen jumper ➔ jacket for day/night ➔ sneakers Extra pieces for ladies to consider ➔ scarf for layering and added warmth ➔ silk shirt to pair with jeans in the evening ➔ heels or boots for night ➔ one or two statement jewellery pieces for evening

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WHERE SUCCESS STAYS The face of work travel is changing and so are we. From in-room WiFi to full serviced apartment style accommodation, we’re here for you on your quest for success.

Visit questapartments.com.au to start your quest.

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Photos AGNSW.

The Archibald Prize

Yvette Coppersmith in front of her Archibald Prize winning self-portrait.

A behind the scenes look at Australia’s most prestigious art award

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he prize was established from a bequest by Jules Francois Archibald, the founding editor of The Bulletin magazine.

J.F. Archibald died in 1919 with the first Archibald Prize held two years after his death.

According to Archibald’s will – held in the Art Gallery of NSW archive – the Archibald Prize is to be awarded annually to the best portrait “preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in art, letters, science or politics, painted by any artist resident in Australasia”.

Portraits must have been painted in the previous year from at least one live sitting with the artist.

The Archibald Prize awards AU$100,000 prize money for the winning artist.

In its 97th year, the Archibald Prize has been held annually since 1921. An open competition, the Archibald Prize is judged by the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Finalists are exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales before embarking on a year-long regional tour. In the early years, all entries were hung.

Packing Room Prize winner Jamie Preisz ‘Jimmy’

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2018 FAST FACTS

794 Number of Archibald Prize entries

57 Number of finalists

21 First time Archibald finalists

12.5x 10.5cm

Smallest Archibald Prize entry: Lotte

by Marcus Wills

TOP THREE SUBJECTS

20 Self-portraits 14 other artists 5 actors

Finalist Anne Middleton ‘Guy’ Quest KUDOS / 51

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TOP CELLAR DOORS

S’Arenberg’s The Cube

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Australia and New Zealand do wine hospitality as well as anywhere on the planet. Whether you want to visit a glittering palace with its own high-end restaurant, or a rustic cellar door with vineyard views, there is something for every taste. Winsor Dobbin introduces 30 of the best places to taste wine in style.

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TarraWarra Estate

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Dal Zotto

The Yarra Valley is just a short drive from Melbourne CBD and offers a wide range of tasting options. Among the glitziest choices is Levantine Hill, with a gourmet restaurant operated by celebrity chef Teage Ezzard, sculpture gardens and its own helicopter pad and some stellar reds and chardonnays. Also in the region is TarraWarra Estate, which boasts a top-end eatery, new tasting rooms, its own museum of modern art and wine styles like nebbiolo and barbera alongside regional stars chardonnay and pinot noir.

On the other side of Melbourne, the Mornington Peninsula’s standouts include newcomer Point Leo Estate, where former Rockpool chef Phil Wood mans the pans at Laura, one of two on-site restaurants.

There are also expansive gardens and a sculpture park. You’ll discover exceptional wines, views, and accommodation, as well as fine dining, at Kooyong/Port Phillip Estate, while Polperro offers relaxed tastings and serious wine and food matchings.

Out of town, Clyde Park is a dramatically-sited facility with a busy tasting room and casual eatery just outside of Geelong, while Passing Clouds near Daylesford has just revamped its tasting room, serves hearty, rustic chic lunches and will soon be visited by local trains at its own railway platform at Musk.

Enjoy a little slice of Italy in the King Valley, where the Dal Zotto family, Australian prosecco pioneers, serve up Italianinspired seasonal and regional produce in their Trattoria.

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Seppeltsfield

Heifer Station

NEW SOUTH WALES The Hunter Valley is a two-hour drive north of Sydney, and its many cellar doors have seen it described as “Hollywood for wine lovers.”

For a peek behind the scenes at 150 years of winemaking history the Tyrrell’s cellar door offers tastings of exceptional Semillons and shiraz and a cellar door tour, while Hungerford Hill is home to a modern tasting facility and Muse restaurant, where chef Troy Rhoades-Brown has built a formidable reputation for his regional cuisine. Coming soon, and doubtless worth the wait, is the brand-new Brokenwood cellar door and The Wood restaurant, which will open late in the year. For an authentic taste of rural Australia, visit Heifer Station outside Orange, where tastings of affordable varietals are available in an atmospheric old woolshed and kids can enjoy a petting zoo. Take any curious overseas guests here for an authentic slice of Australiana.

Local stone and reclaimed timber were used in constructing the new Clonakilla cellar door at Murrumbateman, outside the national capital, where the tasting bar is made from repurposed wine barrels and manned by very knowledgeable staff. This was the birthplace of the shiraz-viognier blend in Australia.

Outside Mudgee, the Lowe Wines cellar door is set in a corrugated iron shed with wooden furniture. David Lowe’s organic wines can be matched with local produce at the adjacent The Zin House eatery run by Lowe’s partner and local foodie Kim Currie.

S’Arenberg’s The Cube

Hungerford Hill

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Yalumba’s cooperage (pictured) makes more than 300 barrels each year.

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The new star cellar door in McLaren Vale is d’Arenberg’s multi-purpose The Cube, an award-winning glass-encased steel and concrete structure that sits five storeys high, surrounded by vines, with its design inspired by a Rubix cube, with rotated “modules” that give the illusion of floating above the ground floor entrance. The Cube houses public and private tasting rooms, bars, a restaurant and an art gallery.

Over in the Barossa, the completely made-over Seppeltsfield cellar door has become a place of pilgrimage for wine lovers from around the globe wanting to taste ancient fortified wines dating back 100 years or more. The cellar door features private tasting pods, while Fino is undoubtedly one of the best cellar door restaurants in the country.

Down the road in the Eden Valley work is underway on a new cellar door at Henschke, home of the iconic $825-a-bottle Hill of Grace. The Henschke family has been making wines for 150 years, and you can feel the history all around you.

Yalumba, meanwhile, offers a range of tastings and tours of its historic facilities, including a rare on-site barrel cooperage.

In the Clare Valley, the wonderfully rustic chic Skillogalee - home to the first winery eatery in the region - is a must for both tastings and vineyard lunches served indoors or al fresco on the veranda under the shade of an old olive tree. Match the winery’s fabled rieslings with Port Lincoln sardines.

The famous gabled winery of Wynns Coonawarra Estate in Coonawarra, the region’s leading producer, offers visitors the chance to craft their wine blend as well as tasting fine cabernets and shirazes. The first vineyards were planted here in 1891.

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MONA Moorilla

TASMANIA A visit to the Moorilla cellar door and The Source restaurant, part of the extravagant MONA complex, is de rigueur for anyone visiting the Apple Isle, while Stefano Lubiana’s homely cellar door and country-style Osteria is more laid back and offers the chance to sample a fully biodynamic range along with Italian-accented dishes. Tamar Ridge, on the East Coast, offers tastings overlooking the ocean and vines, while Velo Estate, just a short drive outside of Launceston in the Tamar Valley, has an updated tasting facility and is home to highly-rated Timbre restaurant.

WEST AUSTRALIA The fabled Margaret River strip is home to several of Australia’s finest cellar doors, including Voyager Estate, with its superb tasting room staff, dramatically different Cape Dutch architecture and gourmet restaurant offering serious food and wine flights. Family-owned Leeuwin Estate, which hosts regular concerts, is another standout, also with a gourmet restaurant on site. In the Swan Valley, outside Perth, Sandalford cellar door offers river cruises, tutored tastings, guided tours and is home to a gourmet eatery that is a regular award winner.

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Pegasus Bay, and diningroom below.

NEW ZEALAND Central Otago is home to several of the most spectacular tasting facilities in the world – and world-class pinot noirs that can match the best of Burgundy. Head to regional pioneer Rippon on the banks of Lake Wanaka for incredible views and world-class wines presented by very well-trained staff.

For those visiting Auckland, artists enclave Waiheke Island, ‘the island of wine,’ is just a 35-minute ferry ride from downtown Auckland and home to several tasting facilities including Stonyridge, which also boasts an olive grove plantation and the popular Veranda Café, a top spot to taste the premium red wines.

Outside Christchurch, in North Canterbury, Pegasus Bay has been owned and operated by the Donaldson family since the 1970s and has a global reputation for both its wines and dining room. The menu is created around the wine list, each dish being matched with a suggested wine. It changes regularly to utilise seasonal ingredients.

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CLEVER CHEF

Nutritionist Jacqueline Alwill has created two recipes you can create in your room.

PESTO QUINOA WITH CHICKEN PEAS AND BROCCOLINI Serves One

ingr edients - 180-200g chicken breast - 1/2 cup quinoa, rinsed - 2 tablespoons pesto - 1/2 bunch broccolini, trimmed - 1/2 cup frozen or fresh peas - 1/2 avocado, sliced - 1/2 lemon - sea salt and black pepper

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To poach the chicken: Fill a small saucepan with water and bring to the boil, add whole chicken breast, turn off heat, cover and poach for 20 minutes. Once cooked drain and set aside covered.

To make the quinoa: Combine quinoa and 1 cup water in a small saucepan, bring to the boil, cover and reduce to simmer for 12-15 minutes. The quinoa is cooked when the ‘tails’ of the quinoa begin to show. Once cooked toss with pesto, place in a bowl for serving, cover and set aside.

To cook the vegetables: Bring a small saucepan of water to the boil, take off heat, add broccolini and blanch for 2-3 minutes, remove broccolini and set aside. Quickly blanch peas for 1 minute, drain completely and toss with pesto quinoa.

To serve: Slice the chicken and place on top of quinoa with broccolini, avocado and lemon.

Season with sea salt and black pepper.

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ALMOND TOASTED SALMON WITH CAULIFLOWER STEAKS Serves One Gluten Free: Dairy Free: Sugar-Free

ingr edients

- One x 180g piece of salmon - One tablespoon olive oil or ghee+ - 1/4 bunch coriander leaves picked, stalks finely chopped - 1/2 tablespoon almonds, chopped - 1/4 head cauliflower, sliced down middle to form ‘steaks’ instead of florets - 1/4 cup natural yoghurt - sea salt and black pepper - 1/2 lemon

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Heat a large frypan over medium heat, add one tablespoon olive oil or ghee, add cauliflower steaks and sprinkle the top of the cauliflower steaks with sea salt. Cover frypan with lid and cook cauliflower steaks on one side for 4 minutes, remove the lid, flip and cook alternate side for 4 minutes uncovered.

Once cauliflower is cooked, transfer to plate, cover and set aside.

Rub salmon in remaining one tablespoon olive oil or ghee, coriander stalks, and chopped almonds.

Place in frypan and cook flesh side down for 3 minutes covered with a lid, uncover, flip and cook for another 3-4 minutes uncovered, skin side down.

To serve, place a dollop of natural yoghurt on the plate, top with salmon, cauliflower steaks, add lemon cheek and season with sea salt and black pepper.

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Quest Accommodation Directory

NEW PROPERTIES COMING SOON

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA

ACT CANBERRA

VIC MELBOURNE CBD

WA SUBURBS

UNITED KINGDOM UK LIVERPOOL

QUEST CANBERRA CITY WALK

QUEST NEW QUAY

240 City Walk, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, questcanberracitywalk.com.au

26 Caravel Ln, Docklands questnewquay.com.au

QUEST SOUTH PERTH FORESHORE

QUEST LIVERPOOL CITY CENTRE

21 & 23 Mends St, South Perth questsouthperthforeshore.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

NEW ZEALAND

72 Church Street, L1 3AY, Liverpool United Kingdom questliverpoolcitycentre.co.uk

NSW REGIONAL

NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL

QUEST ORANGE

QUEST BURWOOD EAST

132 Kite Street, Orange, New South Wales questorange.com.au

335 Burwood Highway, Burwood questburwoodeast.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE CBD

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

QUEST ON ST KILDA ROAD

QUEST NOTTING HILL

478 St Kilda Road, Melbourne questonstkildaroad.com.au

Ferntree Business Park, Notting Hill VIC 3168 questnottinghill.com.au

QUEST TAURANGA CENTRAL 71 Devonport Street, Tauranga NZ 3110

SOUTH ISLAND CHRISTCHURCH

QUEST ON TUAM 156 Tuam Street, Christchurch NZ 8011

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AUSTRALIA ACT

NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

Quest Accommodation Directory NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

QUEST CANBERRA

QUEST CASTLE HILL

QUEST MACQUARIE PARK

QUEST POTTS POINT

Melbourne Building, 28 West Row, Canberra City ACT 2601 T: 61 (02) 6243 2222 questcanberra.com.au

8 Gladstone Road, Castle Hill NSW 2154 T: 61 (02) 8848 1500 questcastlehill.com.au

71 Epping Road, Macquarie Park NSW 2113 T: 61 (02) 8879 4600 questmacquariepark.com.au

15 Springfield Avenue, Potts Point NSW 2011 T: 61 (02) 8988 6999 questpottspoint.com.au

NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

QUEST BELLA VISTA

QUEST CHATSWOOD

QUEST MANLY

QUEST ST LEONARDS

24 Norbrik Drive, Bella Vista NSW 2153 T: 61 (02) 8818 9300 questbellavista.com.au

38 Albert Avenue, Chatswood NSW 2067 T: 61 (02) 8423 1600 questchatswood.com.au

54A West Esplanade, Manly NSW 2095 T: 61 (02) 9976 4600 questmanly.com.au

10 Atchison Street, St Leonards NSW 2065 T: 61 (02) 8425 0400 queststleonards.com.au

NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

QUEST BONDI JUNCTION

QUEST CRONULLA BEACH

QUEST MASCOT

QUEST AT SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK

28 Spring Street, Bondi Junction NSW 2022 T: 61 (02) 9078 1700 questbondijunction.com.au

1 Kingsway, Cronulla NSW 2230 T: 61 (02) 8536 3600 questcronullabeach.com.au

108-114 Robey Street, Mascot NSW 2020 T: 61 (02) 9366 3900 questmascot.com.au

6 Edwin Flack Avenue, Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127 T: 61 (02) 9033 2000 questatsydneyolympicpark.com.au

NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

NSW SYDNEY SUBURBS

QUEST CAMPBELLTOWN

QUEST LIVERPOOL

QUEST NORTH RYDE

QUEST PENRITH

1 Rennie Road, Campbelltown NSW 2560 T: 61 (02) 4622 4900 questcampbelltown.com.au

39 Scott Street, Liverpool NSW 2170 T: 61 (02) 8738 0800 questliverpool.com.au

58-62 Delhi Road, North Ryde NSW 2113 T: 61 (02) 8899 8888 questnorthryde.com.au

Lot 3003 Lord Sheffield Circuit, Penrith, NSW 2750 T: 1800 334 033 questpenrith.com.au âž” Quest KUDOS / 61

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Quest Accommodation Directory NSW REGIONAL

QUEST ALBURY

NSW REGIONAL

QUEST MAITLAND

NSW REGIONAL

QUEST SINGLETON

550 Kiewa Street, Albury NSW 2640 T: 61 (02) 6058 0900 questalbury.com.au

1 Ken Tubman Drive, Maitland NSW 2320 T: 61 (02) 4999 6000 questmaitland.com.au

5-7 Civic Avenue, Singleton NSW 2330 T: 61 (02) 6570 3800 questsingleton.com.au

NSW REGIONAL

NSW REGIONAL

NSW REGIONAL

QUEST ALBURY ON TOWNSEND 450 Townsend Street, Albury NSW 2640 T: 61 (02) 6058 1100 questalburyontownsend.com.au

NSW REGIONAL

QUEST DUBBO 22 Bultje Street, Dubbo NSW 2830 T: 61 (02) 5809 8600 questdubbo.com.au

NSW REGIONAL

QUEST GRIFFITH 53 Railway Street, Griffith NSW 2680 T: 61 (02) 6953 1900 questgriffith.com.au

QUEST NEWCASTLE 575 Hunter Street, Newcastle NSW 2300 T: 61 (02) 4928 8000 questnewcastle.com.au

NSW REGIONAL

QUEST NEWCASTLE WEST 787 Hunter Street, Newcastle West NSW 2302 T: 61 (02) 4920 3400 questnewcastlewest.com.au

NSW REGIONAL

QUEST NOWRA 130 Kinghorne Street, Nowra NSW 2541 T: 61 (02) 4421 9300 questnowra.com.au

NT DARWIN SUBURBS

QUEST BERRIMAH 4 Berrimah Road, Berrimah NT 0828 T: 61 (08) 8935 3600 questberrimah.com.au NT DARWIN SUBURBS

QUEST TAMWORTH

QUEST PALMERSTON

337 Armidale Road, Tamworth NSW 2340 T: 61 (02) 6761 2366 questtamworth.com.au

18 The Boulevard Palmerston City NT 0830 T: 61 (08) 8919 4100 questpalmerston.com.au

NSW REGIONAL

NT DARWIN SUBURBS

QUEST WAGGA WAGGA

QUEST PARAP

69 Gurwood Street, Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 T: 61 (02) 6923 7000 questwaggawagga.com.au

49 Parap Road, Parap NT 0820 T: 61 (08) 8919 8100 questparap.com.au

NSW REGIONAL

QUEST WOLLONGONG 59-61 Kembla Street, Wollongong NSW 2500 T: 61 (02) 4221 1500 questwollongong.com.au

NT REGIONAL

QUEST ALICE SPRINGS 9-10 South Terrace, Alice Springs NT 0870 T: 61 (08) 8959 0000 questalicesprings.com.au

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Quest Accommodation Directory QLD BRISBANE CBD

QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS

QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS

QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS

QUEST RIVER PARK CENTRAL

QUEST CANNON HILL

QUEST IPSWICH

QUEST WOOLLOONGABBA

120 Mary Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 T: 61 (07) 3838 1000 questriverparkcentral.com.au

930 Wynnum Road, Cannon Hill QLD 4170 T: 1800 334 033 questapartments.com.au

57–63 Warwick Road, Ipswich QLD 4305 T: 61 (07) 3813 6000 questipswich.com.au

130 Logan Road, Woolloongabba QLD 4102 T: 61 (07) 3873 3000 questwoolloongabba.com.au

QLD BRISBANE CBD

QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS

QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS

QLD REGIONAL

QUEST SPRING HILL

QUEST CHERMSIDE

QUEST KELVIN GROVE

QUEST GLADSTONE

454 Upper Edward Street, Spring Hill QLD 4000 T: 61 (07) 3026 2500 questspringhill.com.au

9 Thomas Street, Chermside QLD 4032 T: 61 (07) 3363 0100 questchermside.com.au

41 Ramsgate Street, Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 T: 61 (07) 3308 4800 questkelvingrove.com.au

39-43 Bramston Street, Gladstone QLD 4680 T: 61 (07) 4970 0900 questgladstone.com.au

QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS

QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS

QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS

QLD REGIONAL

QUEST CHERMSIDE on PLAYFIELD

QUEST SPRINGFIELD CENTRAL

QUEST MACKAY

Cnr Lancaster Road & Duke Street, Ascot QLD 4007 T: 61 (07) 3630 0400 questascot.com.au

38-40 Playfield Street, Chermside QLD 4032 T: 61 (07) 3624 0800 questchermsideonplayfield.com.au

4 Wellness Way, Springfield QLD 4300 T: 61 (07) 3155 1300 questspringfieldcentral.com.au

38 Macalister Street, Mackay QLD 4740 T: 61 (07) 4829 3500 questmackay.com.au

QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS

QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS

QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS

QLD REGIONAL

QUEST BREAKFAST CREEK

QUEST EIGHT MILE PLAINS 1 Clunies Ross Court, Eight Mile Plains QLD 4113 T: 61 (07) 3736 2800 questeightmileplains.com.au

QUEST ASCOT

15 Amy Street, Albion QLD 4010 T: 61 (07) 3330 9700 questbreakfastcreek.com.au

QUEST ON STORY BRIDGE 85 Deakin Street , Kangaroo Point QLD 4169 T: 61 (07) 3249 8400 questonstorybridge.com.au

QUEST MACKAY ON GORDON 27 Gordon Street, Mackay QLD 4740 T: 61 (07) 4842 1800 questmackayongordon.com.au ➔ Quest KUDOS / 63

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Quest Accommodation Directory QLD REGIONAL

QUEST ROCKHAMPTON

QLD REGIONAL

QUEST TOWNSVILLE ON EYRE

SA ADEL AIDE SUBURBS

QUEST MAWSON LAKES

TASMANIA HOBART CBD

QUEST TRINITY HOUSE

48 Victoria Parade, Rockhampton QLD 4700 T: 61 (07) 4920 5300 questrockhampton.com.au

19-21 Leichhardt Street, North Ward QLD 4810 T: 61 (07) 4789 7400 questtownsvilleoneyre.com.au

33–37 Main Street, Mawson Lakes SA 5095 T: 61 (08) 7071 0100 questmawsonlakes.com.au

149 Brooker Avenue, Hobart TAS 7000 T: 61 (03) 6236 9656 questtrinityhouse.com.au

QLD REGIONAL

SA ADEL AIDE CBD

SA ADEL AIDE SUBURBS

TASMANIA HOBART CBD

QUEST TOOWOOMBA 133 Margaret Street, Toowoomba QLD 4350 T: 61 (07) 4690 2222 questtoowoomba.com.au

QLD REGIONAL

QUEST TOWNSVILLE 30-34 Palmer Street, Townsville QLD 4810 T: 61 (07) 4726 4444 questtownsville.com.au

QUEST WATERFRONT

QUEST ON FRANKLIN

QUEST PORT ADELAIDE

74 Franklin Street, Adelaide SA 5000 T: 61 (08) 8113 7500 questonfranklin.com.au

36 North Parade, Port Adelaide SA 5015 T: 61 (08) 8409 3500 questportadelaide.com.au

3 Brooke Street, Hobart TAS 7000 T: 61 (03) 6224 8630 questwaterfront.com.au

SA ADEL AIDE CBD

SA REGIONAL

TASMANIA REGIONAL

QUEST ON KING WILLIAM

QUEST WHYALLA

QUEST LAUNCESTON

82 King William Street, Adelaide SA 5000 T: 61 (08) 8217 5000 questonkingwilliam.com.au

4 Moran Street, Whyalla SA 5608 T: 61 (08) 8644 7600 questwhyalla.com.au

16 Paterson Street, Launceston TAS 7250 T: 61 (03) 6333 3555 questlaunceston.com.au

SA ADEL AIDE CBD

TASMANIA HOBART CBD

VIC MELBOURNE CBD

QUEST APARTMENT HOTELS

over 160 properties in Australia & New Zealand

QUEST KING WILLIAM SOUTH 379 King William Street, Adelaide SA 5000 T: 61 (08) 8206 6500 questkingwilliamsouth.com.au

QUEST SAVOY

QUEST ON BOURKE

38 Elizabeth Street, Hobart TAS 7000 T: 61 (03) 6220 2300 questsavoy.com.au

155 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 T: 61 (03) 9631 0400 questonbourke.com.au

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Quest Accommodation Directory VIC MELBOURNE CBD

QUEST DOCKLANDS 750 Bourke Street, Docklands VIC 3008 T: 61 (03) 9630 1000 questdocklands.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE CBD

VIC MELBOURNE CBD

QUEST JOLIMONT

QUEST ABBOTSFORD

QUEST CARLTON ON FINLAY

611 Victoria Street, Abbotsford VIC 3067 T: 61 (03) 9426 1800 questabbotsford.com.au

2-9 Finlay Place, Carlton VIC 3053 T: 61 (03) 8341 4777 questcarltononfinlay.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE CBD

QUEST ON BOURKE

QUEST ON LONSDALE 43 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 T: 61 (03) 9663 3317 questonlonsdale.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE CBD

VIC MELBOURNE CBD

QUEST SOUTHBANK

24 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 T: 61 (03) 9663 2888 questgordonplace.com.au

12-16 Kavanagh Street, Southbank VIC 3006 T: 61 (03) 9694 5600 questsouthbank.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE CBD

VIC MELBOURNE CBD

QUEST GRAND HOTEL MELBOURNE 33 Spencer St, Melbourne VIC 3000 t: 61 (03) 9611 4567 questgrandhotelmelbourne.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

153-155 Wellington Pde South, East Melbourne VIC 3002 T: 61 (03) 9668 1200 questjolimont.com.au

155 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 T: 61 (03) 9631 0400 questonbourke.com.au

QUEST GORDON PLACE

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

QUEST ON WILLIAM 172 William Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 T: 61 (03) 9605 2222 questonwilliam.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

QUEST BRIGHTON

QUEST CAROLINE SPRINGS

Cnr South & Cummins Road, Brighton East VIC 3187 T: 61 (03) 9591 5000 questbrighton.com.au

234 Caroline Springs Boulevard, Caroline Springs VIC 3023 T: 61 (03) 8361 3888 questcarolinesprings.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

QUEST BRIGHTON ON THE BAY

QUEST ON CHAPEL

250 Esplanade, Brighton VIC 3186 T: 61 (03) 9591 5000 questbrightononthebay.com.au

651 Chapel Street, South Yarra VIC 3141 T: 61 (03) 9828 2444 questonchapel.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

QUEST BUNDOORA

QUEST CHELTENHAM

40 Janefield Drive, Bundoora VIC 3083 61 (03) 8306 0600 questbundoora.com.au

37-39 Station Road, Cheltenham VIC 3192 T: 61 (03) 8523 5800 questcheltenham.com.au

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Quest Accommodation Directory VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

QUEST DANDENONG Cnr Princes Hwy & James Street, Dandenong VIC 3175 T: 61 (03) 9797 2200 questdandenong.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

QUEST EAST MELBOURNE

QUEST FRANKSTON

QUEST IVANHOE

48 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne VIC 3002 T: 61 (03) 9413 0000 questeastmelbourne.com.au

377 Nepean Highway, Frankston VIC 3199 T: 61 (03) 8796 1000 questfrankston.com.au

72-84 Upper Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe VIC 3079 T: 61 (03) 9490 2100 questivanhoe.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

QUEST DANDENONG CENTRAL

QUEST EPPING

QUEST FRANKSTON ON THE BAY

QUEST KEW

2-10 Walker Street, Dandenong VIC 3175 T: 61 (03) 8710 5700 questdandenongcentral.com.au

Epping Plaza, Epping VIC 1710 T: 1800 334 033 questepping.com.au

435 Nepean Highway, Frankston 3199 T: 61 (03) 8765 2500 questfrankstononthebay.com.au

19-21 Walpole Street, Kew VIC 3101 T: 61 (03) 9854 7201 questkew.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

QUEST FLEMINGTON

QUEST GLEN WAVERLEY

QUEST MARIBYRNONG

855 Doncaster Road, Doncaster VIC 3108 T: 61 (03) 8848 1600 questdoncaster.com.au

600 Epsom Road, Flemington VIC 3031 T: 61 (03) 9371 2200 questflemington.com.au

353-361 Springvale Road, Glen Waverley VIC 3150 T: 61 (03) 9239 2900 questglenwaverley.com.au

Edgewater Boulevard, Maribyrnong VIC 3032 T: 1800 334 033 questmaribyrnong.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

QUEST ON DORCAS

QUEST FLEMINGTON CENTRAL

QUEST DONCASTER

8 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne VIC 3205 T: 61 (03) 9698 1500 questondorcas.com.au

1 Ascot Vale Rd, Flemington VIC 3031 T: 61 ((03) 8595 8880 questflemingtoncentral.com.au

QUEST HAWTHORN

QUEST MELBOURNE AIRPORT

616 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn VIC 3122 T: 61 (03) 8803 7700 questhawthorn.com.au

Cnr South Centre Rd & Annandale Rd, 20 Annandale Road, Melbourne Airport VIC 3045 questmelbourneairport.com.au

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Quest Accommodation Directory VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

QUEST MONT ALBERT

QUEST PRAHRAN

741-745 Whitehorse Road, Mont Albert VIC 3127 T: 61 (03) 8843 1500 questmontalbert.com.au

9 Balmoral Street, South Yarra VIC 3141 T: 61 (03) 9823 8888 questprahran.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

QUEST WERRIBEE 69 Synnot Street, Werribee VIC 3030 T: 61 (03) 8744 6000 questwerribee.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC REGIONAL

QUEST BALLARAT 7-11 Dawson Street North, Ballarat VIC 3350 T: 61 (03) 5309 1200 questballarat.com.au

VIC REGIONAL

QUEST MOONEE VALLEY

QUEST ROYAL GARDENS 8 Royal Lane, Fitzroy VIC 3065 T: 61 (03) 9419 9888 questroyalgardens.com.au

QUEST WILLIAMSTOWN

QUEST BENDIGO

Cnr McPherson & Coats Street, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039 T: 61 (03) 8325 9500 questmooneevalley.com.au

1 Syme Street, Williamstown VIC 3016 T: 61 (03) 9393 5300 questwilliamstown.com.au

489 High Street, Bendigo VIC 3550 T: 61 (03) 5447 0822 questbendigo.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

QUEST MOORABBIN

QUEST SANCTUARY LAKES

VIC REGIONAL

9 Greg Norman Drive, Sanctuary Lakes Resort, Point Cook VIC 3030 T: 61 (03) 9394 2100 questsanctuarylakes.com.au

QUEST WILLIAMSTOWN NORTH

3 Kingston Road, Heatherton VIC 3202 T: 61 (03) 9981 8900 questmoorabbin.com.au

QUEST BENDIGO CENTRAL

115-119 Kororoit Creek Road, Williamstown VIC 3016 T: 61 (03) 9393 9700 questwilliamstownnorth.com.au

228 McCrae Street, Bendigo VIC 3550 T: 61 (03) 5410 1300 questbendigocentral.com.au

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS

VIC REGIONAL

QUEST NARRE WARREN

QUEST ST KILDA BAYSIDE

QUEST WINDSOR

QUEST SCHALLER HOTEL BENDIGO

Cnr Princes Highway & Verdun Drive, Narre Warren VIC 3805 T: 61 (03) 9796 6944 questnarrewarren.com.au

1 Eildon Road, St Kilda VIC 3182 T: 61 (03) 9593 9500 queststkildabayside.com.au

111 Punt Road, Prahran VIC 3181 T: 61 (03) 9520 3333 questwindsor.com.au

60 Lucan St, Bendigo VIC 3550 T: 61 (03) 4433 6100 questschallerhotelbendigo.com.au âž” Quest KUDOS / 67

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Quest Accommodation Directory VIC REGIONAL

QUEST ECHUCA 25–29 Heygarth Street, Echuca VIC 3564 T: 61 (03) 5481 3900 questechuca.com.au

VIC REGIONAL

VIC REGIONAL

WA PERTH CBD

WA PERTH SUBURBS

QUEST SHEPPARTON

QUEST MOUNTS BAY ROAD

QUEST MIDLAND

177-183 Welsford Street, Shepparton VIC 3630 T: 61 (03) 5814 4800 questshepparton.com.au

130 Mounts Bay Road, Perth WA 6000 T: 61 (08) 9480 8100 questmountsbayroad.com.au

3 The Crescent, Midland, WA 6056 T: 61 (08) 6148 3900 questmidland.com.au

VIC REGIONAL

WA PERTH CBD

QUEST WEST END

WA PERTH SUBURBS

QUEST GEELONG

QUEST WARRNAMBOOL

16-18 The Esplanade South, Geelong VIC 3220 T: 61 (03) 5228 2000 questgeelong.com.au

15-19 Liebig Street, Warrnambool VIC 3280 T: 61 (03) 5564 1200 questwarrnambool.com.au

451 Murray Street, Perth WA 6000 T: 61 (08) 9480 3888 questwestend.com.au

18 Rheola Street, West Perth WA 6005 T: 61 (08) 9365 8999 questonrheola.com.au

VIC REGIONAL

VIC REGIONAL

WA PERTH SUBURBS

WA REGIONAL

QUEST PORTLAND

QUEST WODONGA

QUEST FREMANTLE

66 Julia Street, Portland VIC 3305 T: 61 (03) 5500 9222 questportland.com.au

46 Reid Street, Wodonga VIC 3690 T: 61 (02) 6043 8300 questwodonga.com.au

8 Pakenham Street, Fremantle WA 6160 T: 61 (08) 9433 9400 questfremantle.com.au

VIC REGIONAL

QUEST SALE 180–184 York Street, Sale VIC 3850 T: 61 (03) 5142 0900 questsale.com.au

QUEST ON RHEOLA

QUEST ROCKINGHAM 22 Flinders Lane, Rockingham WA 6168 T: 61 (08) 9591 0600 questrockingham.com.au

WA PERTH CBD

WA PERTH SUBURBS

WA PERTH SUBURBS

QUEST EAST PERTH

QUEST INNALOO 1 Sunray Drive, Innaloo WA 6018 T: 61 (08) 6148 2600 questinnaloo.com.au

4 Brighton Road, Scarborough WA 6019 T: 61 (08) 6140 3500 questscarborough.com.au

176 Adelaide Terrace, East Perth WA 6004 T: 61 (08) 6210 6000 questeastperth.com.au

QUEST SCARBOROUGH

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Quest Accommodation Directory WA PERTH SUBURBS

QUEST SOUTH PERTH 281 Mill Point Road (cnr Arlington Ave), South Perth WA 6151 T: 61 (08) 9474 0200 questsouthperth.com.au

WA PERTH SUBURBS

WA REGIONAL

QUEST YELVERTON KALGOORLIE

210 Egan Street, Kalgoorlie WA 6430 T: 61 (08) 9022 8181 questkalgoorlie.com.au

NEW ZEALAND

NORTH ISLAND AUCKLAND

QUEST KINGS PARK

QUEST AUCKLAND

54 Kings Park Road, West Perth WA 6005 T: 61 (08) 9420 8700 questkingspark.com.au

363 Queen Street, Auckland NZ 1010 T: 64 (09) 300 2200 questauckland.co.nz

WA REGIONAL

QUEST BUNBURY 14 Lyons Cove, Bunbury WA 6230 T: 61 (08) 9722 0777 questbunbury.com.au

WA REGIONAL

NORTH ISLAND AUCKLAND

NORTH ISLAND AUCKLAND

NORTH ISLAND AUCKLAND

QUEST ON HOBSON

QUEST PONSONBY

127 Hobson Street, Auckland NZ 1010 T:64 (09) 282 4763 questhobson.co.nz

68 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby Auckland NZ 1011 T: 64 (09) 360 4240 questponsonby.co.nz

NORTH ISLAND AUCKLAND

QUEST ON BEAUMONT 80 Beaumont Street, Auckland 1010 T: 64 (09) 222 0180 questonbeaumont.co.nz

NORTH ISLAND AUCKLAND

NORTH ISLAND AUCKLAND

QUEST NEWMARKET 31-39 Davis Crescent, Newmarket Auckland NZ 1023 T: 64 (09) 520 3000 questnewmarket.co.nz

NORTH ISLAND AUCKLAND

QUEST ON QUEEN

QUEST CARLAW PARK

62 Queen Street, Auckland NZ 1010 T: 64 (09) 300 2500 questonqueen.co.nz

15 Nicholls Lane, Carlaw Park Auckland NZ 1010 T: 64 (09) 304 0521 questcarlawpark.co.nz

32 Kell Drive, Albany Auckland, NZ 0632 T: 64 (09) 414 0024 questalbany.co.nz

NORTH ISLAND AUCKLAND

NORTH ISLAND AUCKLAND

NORTH ISLAND AUCKLAND

QUEST MANDURAH

QUEST ON EDEN

20 Apollo Place, Mandurah WA 6210 T: 61 (08) 9535 9599 questmandurah.com.au

52 Eden Crescent, Auckland NZ 1010 T: 64 (09) 366 6500 questoneden.co.nz

QUEST ALBANY

QUEST PARNELL

QUEST HENDERSON

8 Heather Street, Parnell Auckland NZ 1052 T: 64 (09) 337 0804 questparnell.co.nz

12 Wadier Place, Henderson Auckland NZ 0610 T: 64 (09) 839 7247 questhenderson.co.nz

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Quest Accommodation Directory NORTH ISLAND AUCKLAND

QUEST HIGHBROOK 60 Highbrook Drive, The Crossings East Tamaki, Auckland NZ 2013 T: 64 (09) 222 0160 questhighbrook.co.nz

NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL

QUEST HAMILTON

NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL

NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL

WELLINGTON

QUEST NAPIER

QUEST ON WARD

176 Dickens Street, Napier NZ 4110 T: 64 (06) 833 5325 questnapier.co.nz

42-47 Ward Street, Hamilton NZ 3204 T: 64 (07) 839 1676 questonward.co.nz

40-42 Richmond Street Petone, Lower Hutt T: 64 (04) 282 1680 questpetone.co.nz

NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL

WELLINGTON

NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL

QUEST PALMERSTON NORTH

QUEST WHANGAREI

QUEST PETONE

QUEST ATRIUM

51 London Street, Hamilton NZ 3204 T: 64 (07) 834 1440 questhamilton.co.nz

1-17 Fitzherbert Avenue, (Cnr of Fitzherbert Avenue & The Square) Palmerston North NZ 4410 T: 64 (06) 357 7676 questpalmerstonnorth.co.nz

58 Bank Street Whangarei, NZ, 0110 T: 64 (09) 972 7854 questwhangarei.co.nz

154 The Terrace, Wellington NZ 6011 T: 64 (04) 931 1000 questatrium.co.nz

NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL

NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL

WELLINGTON

WELLINGTON

QUEST ON DURHAM 6 Durham Street, Tauranga NZ 3110 T: 64 (07) 571 1455 questondurham.co.nz

NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL

QUEST ROTORUA CENTRAL 1192 Hinemoa Street, Rotorua NZ 3010 T: 64 (07) 929 9808 questrotoruacentral.co.nz

QUEST NEW PLYMOUTH

QUEST ON JOHNSTON

QUEST ON LAMBTON

21 Currie Street, New Plymouth NZ 4310 T: 64 (06) 758 5483 questnewplymouth.co.nz

35 Johnston Street, Wellington NZ 6011 T: 64 (04) 460 5100 questonjohnston.co.nz

120 Lambton Quay, Wellington NZ 6011 T: 64 (04) 931 2999 questonlambton.co.nz

NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL

WELLINGTON

QUEST TAUPO

QUEST ON THE TERRACE

QUEST ON THORNDON

120 The Terrace, Wellington NZ 6011 T: 64 (04) 470 1820 questterrace.co.nz

61-63 Thorndon Quay, Wellington NZ 0611 T: 64 (04) 333 0007 questonthorndon.co.nz

59-61 Kaimanawa Street Taupo, NZ, 3330 T: 64 (07) 929 8579 questtaupo.co.nz

WELLINGTON

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SOUTH ISLAND REGIONAL

AUSTRALIA

QUEST WELLINGTON

QUEST INVERCARGILL

Cnr Hunter and Lambton Quay, Wellington NZ 6011 T: 64 (04) 916 0700 questwellington.co.nz

10 Dee Street, (Cnr Dee & Tay St) Invercargill NZ 9810 T: 64 (03) 211 3966 questinvercargill.co.nz

Citadines on Bourke, MELBOURNE No 131-135 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia T: (61-3) 9039 8888

SOUTH ISLAND CHRISTCHURCH

SOUTH ISLAND REGIONAL

AUSTRALIA

QUEST NELSON

Somerset on Elizabeth, MELBOURNE No 250 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia T: (61-3) 8665 8888

QUEST CHRISTCHURCH

Cathedral Junction 113 Worcester Street, Christchurch NZ 8011 T: 64 (03) 222 2003 questchristchurch.co.nz

108-110 Collingwood Street, Nelson, NZ, 7010 T: 64 (03) 929 5503 questnelson.co.nz

SOUTH ISLAND CHRISTCHURCH

FIJI

QUEST ON MANCHESTER

QUEST SUVA

54 Manchester Street, Christchurch NZ 8011 T: 64 (03) 595 1538 questonmanchester.co.nz

Suva Central, Renwick Road Suva Central Fiji T: 67 (9) 331 9119 questsuva.com

SOUTH ISLAND REGIONAL

QUEST DUNEDIN 333 Cumberland Street, Dunedin NZ 9016 T: 64 (03) 470 1725 questdunedin.co.nz

ASCOTT PROPERTY NETWORK AUSTRALIA

Somerset on the Pier, HOBART Elizabeth Street Pier, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia T: (61-3) 6220 6600

AUSTRALIA

Citadines St Georges Terrace, PERTH No. 185 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA 6000, Australia T: (61-8) 9226 3355 CAMBODIA

Somerset Norodom, PHNOM PENH No. 10-12, Street 41, Tonle Bassac Commune, Phnom Penh T: +65 6272 7272

CHINA

Ascott BEIJING No.108B Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100022 China T: (86 10) 6587 0888 CHINA

Ascott Raffles City, BEIJING No. 1–2 Dongzhimen South Street, Dongcheng District Beijing 100007, China T: (86-10) 8405 3888 CHINA

Ascott Riverside Garden, BEIJING No. 33, Zhou Zhuang Jiayuan Dongli, Chaoyang District Beijing 100122, China T: (86-10) 8783 1666 CHINA

Ascott Raffles City, CHENGDU No. 3 Section 4, South Renmin Road, Wuhou District Chengdu 610041, China T: (86-28) 6268 2888 ➔ Quest KUDOS / 71

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Ascott Property Network Accommodation Directory CHINA

Citadines South, CHENGDU 88 Tianfu 3rd Street, ICON Genesis Plaza Tower 5 Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, Chengdu, China T: (86-28) 8521 6666 CHINA

CHINA

Somerset Grand Central, DALIAN No 128-2 Jinma Road, Dalian Development Area Dalian 116600, China T: (86-411) 8801 3888 CHINA

Somerset Riverview, CHENGDU No. 1 Section 3, Renmin South Road, Wuhou District Chengdu 610041, China T: (86-28) 6181 6888

Citadines Gugeng DALIAN No. 138 Jinma Road, Dalian Development Area, Dalian T: (86-411) 8793 5888

CHINA

CHINA

Somerset Yangtze River, CHONGQING Block B, Hejing Building, No. 151 Changjiang Binjiang Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400010, China T: (86-23) 6399 7888 CHINA

Somerset JieFangBei, CHONGQING Block B, Hejing Building, No. 108 Minzu Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400010, China T: (86-23) 8677 6888

Somerset Harbour Court, DALIAN No. 55 Renmin Road, Zhongshan District, Dalian 116001, China T: (86-411) 3991 1888 CHINA

Ascott Guangzhou No. 73 Tianhedong Road, Tianhe District Guangzhou 510630, China T: (86-20) 8513 0388

CHINA

CHINA

Ascott IFC, GUANGZHOU No. 5 Zhujiang Xi Road, Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District Guangzhou 510623, China T: (86-20) 3838 9888

Somerset Swan Lake, HEFEI No. 888 Qianshan Road, New Municipal and Cultural District, Hefei, China T: (86-551) 6610 6888

CHINA

CHINA

Citadines Lizhiwan, GUANGZHOU No. 145-4 Longjin Xi Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou 510150, China T: (86-20) 2835 1999 CHINA

Citadines Ashley, HONG KONG No. 18 Ashley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China T: (852) 2262 3062

Somerset Riviera, GUANGZHOU No. 770 Binjiang Zhong Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510220, China T: (86-20) 8956 6688

Somerset Victoria Park, HONG KONG No. 118 Electric Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, China T: (852) 3653 8088

CHINA

Citadines Intime City, HANGZHOU Block 4, Intime City, 380 Fengtan Road, Gongshu District Hangzhou 310011, China T: (86-571) 8667 9888

CHINA

CHINA

Citadines Harbourview HONG KONG 138 Connaught Road West, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong T: (852) 3607 3333

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Ascott Property Network Accommodation Directory CHINA

CHINA

CHINA

CHINA

Citadines Mercer, HONG KONG No. 29 Jervois Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, China T: (852) 2922 9988

Ascott Heng Shan, SHANGHAI No. 99 Hengshan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200031, China T:(021) 3339 5588

Ascott Maillen, SHENZHEN No 3 Yanshan Road, Nanshan District Shenzhen 518067, China T: (86-755) 2160 0188

Citadines Xinghai, SUZHOU Block 27 Jiacheng Gardens, 58 Xinghai St Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou 215021, China T: (86-512) 8885 8288

CHINA

CHINA

CHINA

CHINA

Ascott Macau Dynasty District, Cidade de Braga, Nape, Macau T: (853) 2822 0688

Ascott Huai Hai Road, SHANGHAI No. 282, Huai Hai Road Central, Huangpu District Shanghai 200021, China T: (86-21) 2329 8888

Ascott Raffles City, SHENZHEN No. 22 Dengliang Road, Nanshan District Shenzhen 518054, China T: (86-755) 2523 6888

Somerset Baitang, SUZHOU 266 East Suzhou Avenue, Suzhou Industrial Park Suzhou 215028, China T: (86-512) 6688 6688

CHINA

CHINA

Somerset Youth Olmpic NANJING No. 9 Qing’ao South Road, Jianye District Nanjing 210000, China T: (86-25) 8308 0888

Somerset Xu Hui, SHANGHAI No 888 Shaanxi Nan Road, Xu Hui District Shanghai 200031, China T: (86-21) 6466 0888

CHINA

Ascott Harmony City, NANTONG No.57 Gongnong Road, Chongchuan District, China T: (86-513) 8566 7888

CHINA

Somerset Grandview, SHENZHEN No 5 Xinsha Road, Futian District, Shenzhen 518048, China T: (86-755) 8312 9888

CHINA

Somerset Emerald City, SUZHOU No 436 Changjiang Road, Suzhou New District Suzhou 215011, China T: (86-512) 6818 6611

CHINA

CHINA

CHINA

Somerset Heping, SHENYANG No 80 Taiyuan North Street, Heping District Shenyang 110000, China T: (86-24) 2397 5555

Ascott Midtown, SUZHOU No 229 Zhongxin West Avenue, Suzhou Industrial Park Suzhou 215021, China T: (86-512) 6293 3666

Ascott TEDA MSD Tianjin No 7 Xincheng West Road, Tianjin Economic Technological Development Area, Tianjin 300475, China T: (86-22) 5999 7666

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Ascott Property Network Accommodation Directory CHINA

CHINA

CHINA

INDIA

Somerset International Building, TIANJIN No 75 Nanjing Road, Heping District, Tianjin 300050, China T: (86-22) 2330 6666

Ascott Central WUXI No. 288, Zhongshan Road, Liangxi District, Wuxi 214000, China T: (86 510) 6888 2888

Citadines Gaoxin, XI’AN 13 Gaoxin Si Road, Hi-Tech Zone Xi’an 710075, China T: (86-29) 8843 7888

Somerset Greenways, CHENNAI No 94, Sathyadev Avenue, MRC Nagar, Chennai 600 028, India T: (91-44) 7100 0001 F: (91-44) 7100 0010

CHINA

CHINA

CHINA

INDONESIA

Somerset Olympic Tower, TIANJIN No 126 Chengdu Dao, Heping District, Tianjin 300051, China T: (86-22) 2335 5888

Somerset Software Park XIAMEN No.2 Jinshan Road, Siming District, Xiamen 361008, China T: (86-592) 3236 888

Somerset Xindicheng XI’AN No. 64, The West Section of South 2nd Ring Road, Yanta District, Xi’an, China T: (86-29) 8790 9888

Citadines Kuta Beach, BALI Jalan Pantai Kuta, Badung, Bali 80361, Indonesia T: (62-361) 849 6500 F: (62-361) 849 6565

CHINA

CHINA

Citadines Zhuankou, WUHAN No 159 Dongfeng Avenue, Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone 430056, China T: (86-27) 8421 8000 CHINA

Somerset Wusheng, WUHAN No 238, Zhongshan Avenue, Qiaokou District, Hankou Wuhan 430032, China T: (86-27) 6360 1688

CHINA

Somerset Harmony City, WUXI Build. 2, No. 260 Xicheng Road, Liangxi District, China T: (86-510) 6888 9888

Citadines Xingqing Palace, XI’AN 159 Xingqing Road, Beilin District, Xi’an 710049, China T: (86-29) 8338 0588

CHINA

INDIA

Citadines Central, XI’AN 36 Zhubashi, Beilin District, Xi’an 710002, China T: (86-29) 8576 1188

Citadines OMR Chennai Sholinganallur Junction, Old Mahabalipuram Road Sholinganallur, Chennai 600119, India T: (91-44) 7111 7111

INDONESIA

Ascott JAKARTA Jalan Kebon Kacang Raya No 2, Jakarta 10230, Indonesia T: (62-21) 391 6868 F: (62-21) 391 3368 INDONESIA

Ascott Kuningan, JAKARTA Ciputra World 1, Jalan Prof Dr Satrio Kav 3-5, Jakarta 12940, Indonesia T: (62-21) 3006 0288

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Ascott Property Network Accommodation Directory INDONESIA

Ascott Sudirman, JAKARTA Ciputra World 2, Jalan Prof. Dr. Satrio Kav. 11 Jakarta 12930, Indonesia T: (62-21) 5083 7878 INDONESIA

Citadines Rasuna, JAKARTA The H Tower, Jalan HR Rasuna Said Kav. 20, Kuningan, Jakarta 12940, Indonesia T: (62-21) 2953 3123 INDONESIA

Somerset Berlian, JAKARTA Jalan Permata Berlian V, Permata Hijau, Jakarta 12210, Indonesia T: (62-21) 5366 8888

INDONESIA

Somerset Grand Citra, JAKARTA Jalan Prof Dr Satrio Kav. 1, Jakarta 12940, Indonesia T: (62-21) 2995 6888

INDONESIA

JAPAN

L AOS

Ascott Waterplace, SURABAYA Tower D 1 Jalan Pakuwon Indah Lontar Timur Kav. 3-5, Surabaya 60216 Indonesia T: (62-31) 7393 001

Somerset Shinagawa, TOKYO 4-24-58 Takanawa Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0074 , Japan T: (81-3) 3445 2805

Somerset Vientiane Souphanouvong Avenue, Sikhotabong district P.O.Box: 4793 Vientiane, Lao PDR T: (856) 21 250 888

JAPAN

JAPAN

MAL AYSIA

Citadines Shinjuku, TOKYO 1-28-13 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160 0022, Japan T: (81-3) 5379 7208

Citadines DPulze, Cyberjaya Lingkaran Cyber Point Timur Cyber 12, 63000 Cyberjaya Malaysia T: (60-3) 8689 9888

JAPAN

JAPAN

MAL AYSIA

Citadines Central Shinjuku, TOKYO 1-2-9 Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160 0021, Japan T: (81-3) 3200 0223

Somerset Azabu East, TOKYO No. 1-9-11 Higashi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106 0044, Japan T: (81-3) 5114 2800

Somerset Medini Iskandar PUTERI Lot 5 Jalan Medini Utara 4, Medini Iskandar Malaysia, 79200 Nusajaya Johor, Malaysia T: (60-7) 287 1011

JAPAN

JAPAN

MAL AYSIA

Somerset Ginza, EAST TOKYO 4-1-12 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045 T: (81-3) 3549-7111

Ascott Marunouchi TOKYO 1-1-1 Otemachi, Chiyodaku Tokyo, Japan T: (81-3) 5208 2001

Somerset Puteri Harbour Iskandar PUTERI Persiaran Puteri Selatan, Puteri Harbour 79000 Iskandar Puteri, Johor Darul Ta’zim, Malaysia T: (60-7) 287 1088

Citadines Karasuma-Gojo, KYOTO 432 Matsuya-cho Gojo-dori Karasuma-Higashiiru Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600 8105, Japan T: (81-75) 352 8900

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Ascott Property Network Accommodation Directory MAL AYSIA

MAL AYSIA

PHILIPPINES

SINGAPORE

Ascott Kuala Lumpur No. 9 Jalan Pinang 50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia T: (603) 2718 6868

Somerset Damansara UPtown Petaling JAYA 2A, Jalan SS21/37, Damansara Utama ,47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor T: (60-3) 7730 0888

Citadines Salcedo, MAKATI 148 Valero Street, Salcedo Village, Makati City 1227 Philippines T: (63-2) 863 9888

Ascott Orchard Singapore, SINGAPORE No 11 Cairnhill Road, Singapore 229724 T: (65) 6540 1688

PHILIPPINES

SINGAPORE

Somerset Millennium MAKATI No. 104 Aguirre Street, Legaspi Village Makati City 1229, Philippines T: (63-2) 750 7888

Citadines Mount Sophia, SINGAPORE 8 Wilkie Road #01-26 Wilkie Edge, Singapore 228095 T: (65) 6593 8188

MAL AYSIA

PHILIPPINES

Ascott Sentral, KUALA LUMPUR No. 211 Jalan Tun Sambanthan, KL Sentral 50470 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia T: (60-3) 2727 9999

Somerset Alabang MANILA 3409 Spectrum Midway Filinvest City 1781 Alabang, Muntinlupa City T: (63-2) 643 0999

MAL AYSIA

PHILIPPINES

Somerset Ampang, KUALA LUMPUR No. 187 Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia T: (60-3) 2723 8888

Ascott Bonifacio Global City, MANILA 28th Street corner 5th Avenue, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City 1634 Philippines T: (63-2) 860 9888

PHILIPPINES

SINGAPORE

Somerset Olympia MAKATI No 7912 Makati Avenue, Makati City 1200, Philippines T: (63-2) 812 1010

Citadines Fusionopolis, SINGAPORE 3 Fusionopolis Way Symbiosis Tower Singapore 138633 T: (65) 6248 3333

MAL AYSIA

PHILIPPINES

SINGAPORE

SINGAPORE

Citadines Uplands, KUCHING No. 55 Jalan Simpang Tiga 93350 Kuching Sarawak, Malaysia T: (60-82) 281 888

Ascott Makati, Glorietta 4, Ayala Centre, Makati City 1224, Philippines T: (63-2) 729 8888

Ascott Raffles Place, SINGAPORE No 2 Finlayson Green, Singapore 049247 T: (65) 6577 1688

Somerset Bencoolen, SINGAPORE No 51 Bencoolen Street, Singapore 189630 T: (65) 6849 4688

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Ascott Property Network Accommodation Directory SINGAPORE

SOUTH KOREA

THAIL AND

THAIL AND

Somerset Liang Court, SINGAPORE No 177B River Valley Road, Singapore 179032 T: (65) 6337 0111

Somerset Jeju Shinhwa World 139 Sinhwayeoksa-ro 304 beongil, Andeok-myeon, Seogwipo-si, Jeju 63522, South Korea T: (82-64) 908 8800

Citadines Sukhumvit 11, BANGKOK 22/22 Sukhumvit 11, Sukhumvit Road, Klongtoey Nue, Wattana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand T: (66-2) 264 6777

Somerset Sukhumvit Thonglor, BANGKOK No 115 Sukhumvit 55 (Thonglor), Sukhumvit Road, Klongton Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand T: (66-2) 365 7999

SOUTH KOREA

THAIL AND

THAIL AND

THAIL AND

Citadines Haeundae, BUSAN 620 Haeun-daero.

Haeundae-gu, Busan 48094, South Korea T: (82-51) 662 8888

Somerset Ekamai Bangkok 22/1 Ekamai Soi 2, Sukhumvit 63 Road, Phra Khanong Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110 T: (66-2) 032 1999

Citadines Sukhumvit 16, BANGKOK 38 Sukhumvit 16, Sukhumvit Road, Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110, Thailand T: (66-2) 663 8777

Citadines Grand Central, SRI RACHA 99/9 Thetsaban 1 Road Sri Racha, Chonburi 20110 Thailand T: (66) 3831 6600

THAIL AND

VIETNAM

SOUTH KOREA

Citadines Han River, SEOUL 11 Yangpyeong-ro 28-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 07202 South Korea T: (82-2) 2014 1111

THAIL AND

Ascott Sathorn, BANGKOK No 7 South Sathorn Road, Yannawa, Sathorn, Bangkok 10120, Thailand T: (66-2) 676 6868

Citadines Sukhumvit 23, BANGKOK 37/7 Sukhumvit 23, Sukhumvit Road, Klongtoey-nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand T: (66-2) 204 4777

Citadines Blue Cove DANANG No.1 Le Van Duyet, Nai Hien Dong Ward, Son Tra District, Da Nang City, Vietnam T: (84-236) 387 8888

SOUTH KOREA

THAIL AND

THAIL AND

VIETNAM

Somerset Palace, SEOUL 7 Yulgok-ro 2-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03143, South Korea T: (82-2) 6730 8888

Citadines Sukhumvit 8, BANGKOK 77/7 Sukhumvit 8, Sukhumvit Road, Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110, Thailand T: (66-2) 257 2277

Somerset Lake Point, BANGKOK No 41 Sukhumvit 16, Sukhumvit Road, Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110, Thailand T: (66-2) 663 1234

Citadines Regency SAIGON No. 20-22 Pham Ngoc Thach Street District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam T: (84-28) 3736 6666

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Ascott Property Network Accommodation Directory VIETNAM

Citadines Bayfront NHA TRANG 62 Tran Phu, Nha Trang, Vietnam T: (84-25) 8351 7222

VIETNAM

Somerset West Lake, HANOI No 254D Thuy Khue Road, Hanoi, Vietnam T: (84-24) 3843 0030

BELGIUM

PARIS

Citadines Sainte-Catherine, BRUSSELS 51 Quai au Bois à Brûler, 1000 Brussels, Belgium T: (32-2) 221 14 11

Citadines Austerlitz, PARIS 27 rue Esquirol, 75013 Paris, France T: (33) 1 56 61 54 00

VIETNAM

VIETNAM

BELGIUM

PARIS

Somerset Central TD, HAI PHONG CITY Tower A, TD Plaza, Lot 20A, Le Hong Phong Street Dong Khe Ward, Ngo Quyen District, Hai Phong City, Vietnam T: (84-225) 3670 888

Somerset Chancellor Court, HO CHI MINH CITY No 21-23 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, District 1 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam T: (84-28) 3822 9197

Citadines Toison d’Or, BRUSSELS 61-63 Avenue de la Toison d’Or, 1060 Brussels, Belgium T: (32-2) 543 53 53

Citadines Bastille Gare de Lyon, PARIS 14-18 rue de Chaligny, 75012 Paris, France T: (33) 1 40 04 43 50

VIETNAM

VIETNAM

PARIS

PARIS

Somerset Grand, HANOI No 49 Hai Ba Trung Street, Hanoi, Vietnam T: (84-24) 3934 2342

Somerset Ho Chi Minh City No 8A Nguyen Binh Khiem Street, District 1 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam T: (84-28) 3822 8899

La Clef Tour Eiffel PARIS 83 Avenue Kléber, 75116 Paris, France T: (33) 1 44 05 75 75

Citadines Bastille Marais PARIS 37 Boulevard Richard Lenoir 75011 Paris, France T: (33) 1 53 36 90 00

VIETNAM

VIETNAM

PARIS

Somerset Hoa Binh, HANOI No 106 Hoang Quoc Viet Street, Hanoi, Vietnam T: (84-24) 3755 5888

Somerset Vista, HO CHI MINH CITY No 628C Hanoi Highway, An Phu Ward, District 2 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam T: (84-28) 6255 9900

La Clef Louvre Paris 8 rue de Richelieu, 75001 Paris, France T: (33) 1 55 35 28 00

PARIS

Citadines Didot Montparnasse, PARIS 94 rue Didot, 75014 Paris, France T: (33) 1 53 90 38 00

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Ascott Property Network Accommodation Directory PARIS

FRANCE

FRANCE

FRANCE

Citadines La Défense, PARIS La Défense, Les Saisons 8 boulevard de Neuilly 92400 Courbevoie, France T: (33) 1 58 13 57 57

Citadines Opéra, PARIS 18 rue Favart, 75002 Paris, France T: (33) 1 40 15 14 00

Citadines Tour Eiffel, PARIS 132 boulevard de Grenelle, 75015 Paris, France T: (33) 1 53 95 60 00

Citadines City Centre, GRENOBLE 9-11 rue de Strasbourg, 38000 Grenoble, France T: (33) 4 76 15 02 00

PARIS

FRANCE

FRANCE

FRANCE

Citadines Les Halles, PARIS 4 rue des Innocents, 75001 Paris, France T: (33) 1 40 39 26 50

Citadines Place d’Italie, PARIS 18 place d’Italie, 75013 Paris, France T: (33) 1 43 13 85 00

Citadines Trocadéro PARIS 29 bis, rue Saint-Didier, 75116 Paris, France T: (33) 1 56 90 70 00

Citadines City Centre, LILLE Avenue Willy Brandt-Euralille, 59777 Lille, France T: (33) 3 28 36 75 00

PARIS

FRANCE

FRANCE

FRANCE

Citadines Maine Montparnasse, PARIS 67 avenue du Maine, 75014 Paris, France T: (33) 1 53 91 27 00

Citadines République, PARIS 75 bis, avenue Parmentier, 75011 Paris, France T: (33) 1 55 28 08 20

Citadines Croisette Cannes 1 rue le Poussin, 06400 Cannes, France T: (33) 4 97 06 92 00

Citadines Part-Dieu, LYON 91-95 rue Moncey, 69003 Lyon, France T: (33) 4 78 14 90 00

FRANCE

FRANCE

Citadines Montmartre, PARIS 16 avenue Rachel, 75018 Paris, France T: (33) 1 44 70 45 50

Citadines Saint-Germain -des-Prés, PARIS 53 ter, quai des GrandAugustins, 75006 Paris, France T: (33) 1 44 07 70 00

FRANCE

Citadines Genève, Ferney VOLTAIRE 34 rue de Genève, 01210 Ferney-Voltaire, France T: (33) 4 50 42 68 00

FRANCE

Citadines Presqu’île, LYON 2 rue Thomassin, 69002 Lyon, France T: (33) 4 72 40 40 50 ➔ Quest KUDOS / 79

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Ascott Property Network Accommodation Directory FRANCE

FRANCE

GERMANY

UNITED KINGDOM

Citadines Castellane, MARSEILLE 60 rue du Rouet, 13006 Marseille, France T:(33) 4 96 20 11 00

Citadines Wilson, TOULOUSE 8 boulevard de Strasbourg, 31000 Toulouse, France T: (33) 5 34 41 75 00

Citadines Michel, HAMBURG Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 7 20459 Hamburg, Germany T: (49) 040 300 6180

Citadines Barbican, LONDON 7-21 Goswell Road, London EC1M 7AH, United Kingdom T: (44) 207 566 8000

FRANCE

GEORGIA

GERMANY

UNITED KINGDOM

Citadines Prado Chanot, Marseille 9-11 boulevard de Louvain, 13008 Marseille, France T:(33) 4 96 20 65 00

Citadines City Centre, TBILISI Building 2 a, 4 Freedom Square, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia T: (995)322547030

Citadines Arnulfpark, MUNICH Arnulfstrasse 51, 80636 München, Germany T: (49) 089 94008-00

Citadines Holborn-Covent Garden, LONDON 94-99 High Holborn, London WC1V 6LF, United Kingdom T: (44) 207 395 8800

FRANCE

GERMANY

SPAIN

UNITED KINGDOM

Citadines Antigone, MONTPELLIER 588 boulevard d’Antigone, 34000 Montpellier, France T: (33) 4 99 52 37 50

Citadines Kurfürstendamm, BERLIN Olivaer Platz 1, 10707 BerlinWilmersdorf, Germany T: (0) 800 724 38 59

Citadines Ramblas, BARCELONA Ramblas 122, 08002 Barcelona, Spain T: (34) 932 701 111

Citadines South Kensington, LONDON 35A Gloucester Road London SW7 4PL, United Kingdom T: (44) 207 543 7878

FRANCE

Citadines Kléber, STRASBOURG 50-54 rue du Jeu des Enfants, 67000 Strasbourg, France T: (33) 3 90 22 47 00

GERMANY

Citadines City Centre, FRANKFURT Europa-Allee 23 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Germany T: (49) 69 920385 0

UNITED KINGDOM

UNITED KINGDOM

The Cavendish, LONDON (Managed by The Ascott Limited) 81 Jermyn Street, St James’s London SW1Y 6JF, United Kingdom T: (44) (0) 207 930 2111

Citadines Trafalgar Square, LONDON 18-21 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5EA, UK T: (44) 207 766 3700

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Ascott Property Network Accommodation Directory SAUDI ARABIA

SAUDI ARABIA

Somerset West Bay, DOHA Diplomatic Area, PO Box 26026, Doha, Qatar T: (974) 4420 3333

Ascott Tahlia, JEDDAH Al Andalus District, Prince Mohamed Bin Abdul Aziz Street (Tahlia Street), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia T: (966) 12 2832322

Citadines Al Salamah, JEDDAH (Prince Sultan Street), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia T: (966) 12 6111846

BAHRAIN

SAUDI ARABIA

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Somerset Al Fateh, BAHRAIN PO Box 75771, Juffair, Kingdom of Bahrain T: (973) 1781 1889 F: (973) 1781 1886

Ascott Corniche AL KHOBAR Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Street, Corniche Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia T: (971) 4 366 1000

Ascott Park Place, DUBAI Park Place Tower, Sheikh Zayed Road. PO Box 117452, Dubai, United Arab Emirates T: (971-4) 310 8555

Ascott Rafal Olaya, RIYADH Al Ulaya, Olaya Street, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia T: (971) 4310 8503

SAUDI ARABIA

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

TURKE Y

Ascott Sari, JEDDAH Al Zahra’s District, Sari Street, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia T: (966) 12 6926299

Citadines Metro Central, DUBAI Barsha Heights PO Box 502400 Dubai, UAE T: +971 4 4354200

Somerset Maslak, ISTANBUL Maslak 1453, Maslak District, Sögüt Street No: 20AA C15 PK: 34396 Maslak Sanyer, Istanbul, Turkey T: 90 850 207 6162

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

QATAR

Hotel Central Fifth Avenue New York 15 West 45th Street, New York, 10036 New York, USA T: (+1) 212 302 9088

OMAN

Somerset Panorama, MUSCAT Al Ghubrah, Al Ghubrah Street, Muscat, Oman T: (971-4) 310 8503

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QUEST ! ASCOTT PROPERTY NETWORK A strategic partnership between Quest and The Ascott Limited provides guests with access to a global network of locations and accommodation choices. Looking to the long term, the partnership provides a solid platform for the global expansion of the Quest brand. This means that wherever business takes you, you are likely to find a Quest Apartment Hotel in the vicinity.

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BECOME A QUEST FRANCHISEE A PROVEN AND SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS FORMULA As Australasia’s largest apartment hotel operator, Quest is a brand business travellers have come to rely on for more than 25 years.

We’ve created a business format franchise model that takes away some of the challenges to achieving success in small business, with the support of one of Australia’s most recognisable brands.

You don’t need a background in hospitality to become a Quest Franchisee, but you do need a proven track record in running a business or leading a team within a corporate environment. And you need to be prepared to immerse yourself in the day-to-day running of your business.

To find more about becoming a successful Quest franchisee, visit questfranchise.com.au or call 1800 334 033.

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