GROUP HOTEL OPERATOR OF THE YEAR 2022

Alistair Flower and group GM Shane Curry with the winning Settlers Inn team

For the first time in three years, the AHA NSW Awards for Excellence made a triumphant return on Monday night, celebrating the state’s best across a record 46 categories.

Pandemic-delayed since 2019, the no-expense-spared event ushed in 1,500 hospitality industry, community and political leaders to The Cutaway, at Barangaroo.

Moving up from being Individual Operator in 2017, now employing 250 staff across 10 venues, Alistair Flowers’ Flower Hotels became the first ever regional group to take the hotly-contested Group Hotel Operator of the Year.

“It’s very humbling, considering the calibre of the operators here in NSW,” Flower told PubTIC.