Discovery Parks has today announced the leasehold purchase of Blackwater Central Motel in the regional town of Blackwater in Central Queensland.

The 29-room motel services a predominantly corporate and workforce market and complements Discovery’s existing holiday and caravan park in the town, which also largely accommodates travelling and fly-in-fly-out workers.

Located on Blackwater’s main thoroughfare, Railway Street, Blackwater Central Motel is less than two kilometres from the existing Discovery Parks property. The two facilities will be combined under a centralised management structure as Discovery Parks – Blackwater.

Discovery Parks Chief Operations Officer Matt Lang said the acquisition was a strategic complement to its existing presence in the town.

“Through our workstay division, Discovery Parks is one of Australia’s leading providers of corporate and workforce accommodation, supporting the remote accommodation needs of leading businesses around the country,” Mr Lang said.

“This acquisition enables us to cost effectively expand our presence in a region with strong upside thanks to booming resources, agriculture and transport sectors. 

“Owing to the anticipated growth in demand for quality workforce accommodation in the town, we had considered an expansion of our existing holiday and caravan park site; however, Blackwater Central Motel provides us with access to a near new asset with low anticipated maintenance costs making for an appealing and strategically aligned deal.”

Discovery purchased the property through ResortBrokers’ agent Nathan Benjamin, alongside ResortBrokers’ new Central Queensland agents, Lleyton McArthur and Tania Johnston.

Media enquiries: Brittany Harmer, Corporate Communications Manager | 0415 655 191, brittany.harmer@discoveryparks.com.au.

About G’day Group

Founded in 2004 with three caravan parks in WA, G’day Group is now Australia’s leader in regional accommodation experiences with more than 340 properties across the country.

G’day Group operates more than 90 holiday parks and resorts under the Discovery Parks and Resorts brand, with properties in iconic regional destinations, including Kings Canyon, Rottnest Island and the world famous El Questro. The Group is also home to G’day Parks, a network of 240+ independently owned, licensed parks and the G’day Rewards loyalty program, which has 260,000 paid members.

Beyond holiday parks and resorts, the Group owns Wikicamps, Australia’s largest regional travel community and the #1 paid app in the App Store with more than 300k monthly active users, as well as Bookeasy, a specialist provider of booking management systems and technology solutions to leading destination management authorities in Australia and New Zealand (operating as BookIt).

G’day Group has property assets valued at $2 billion and is on track to become a $2.5 billion business by 2026. The company is majority owned by Australian Retirement Trust and founder and CEO Grant Wilckens is a Board Director of the South Australian Tourism Commission and former Chair of the Caravan Industry Association of Australia.