Sally Fielke HOMES are more dangerous than hotels when it comes to alcohol-related violence, new pubs boss Sally Fielke says.

HOMES are more dangerous than hotels when it comes to alcohol-related violence, new pubs boss Sally Fielke says.

Hotel operators are hoping the increase in the number of international tourists and improved domestic travel figures will mean greater occupancy rates.

The conversion of hotels to apartments and low demand for new rooms has led to an 8.1 per cent drop in development in the sector during the past six months.

A new photograph which provides damning evidence that Ali Cetin helped smuggle 14 Turkish Kurds to Melville Island, off Darwin, has emerged as federal police have yet to charge the Mosman kebab-shop owner.