Australian Traveller

Halcyon days on Hayman

FOLLOWING A MULTI-MILLION dollar refurbishment, Hayman Island reopened at the beginning of July under the InterContinental Hotels Group. It’s the latest incarnation of one of Queensland’s most iconic island resorts and builds on a history of tourism that dates back to the 1930s, when Whitsunday fishermen Bob and Bert Hallam established a simple

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