Meet in Regional NSW
Hotel Etico is Australia's first social enterprise hotel - which means its purpose is to deliver a fantastic retreat experience to guests that powers a program providing work, training and live-in opportunities to people with intellectual disabilities, enabling them to transition to open employment and become more independent.
Meet hospitality graduate Shay Bell
Link Disability Magazine is Australia's leading national cross-disability magazine. Featuring opinions and perspectives directly from people with a disability, Link covers a diverse range of topics including news, issues, art, sport, breakthroughs, travel, health, advocacy, products and people in the disability sector. Link started out in 1980 as a small state-based newspaper and has since evolved into a national, professionally designed, glossy, colour magazine.
Visit Blue Mountains
Hotel Etico provides beautiful and comfortable accommodation in an historic manor house, delicious food from Niccolo's restaurant and a wide selection of drinks from our bar within a unique and warm atmosphere. All of this, while powering a program that provides employment and independent living opportunities to young people with intellectual disability, helping them to achieve their independence goals.
Blue Mountains Gazette
Mt Victoria Manor is the home of Australia's first social enterprise hotel.
SBS Italian - Hotel Etico wins Disability Service Award
Premio a Hotel Etico, un progetto che valorizza le diverse abilità.
Impact Boom
Andrea Comastri on Addressing Employment Barriers Through Inclusive Business Models.
SMH Traveller
Hotel Etico, Mount Victoria, NSW: Australia's first 'social enterprise' hotel assists young adults with learning disabilities.
Blue Mountains Gazette
Australia's first social enterprise hotel wins award for Innovation in Employment Programs at 2022 Australian Disability Service Awards.
SBS Small Business Secrets
SBS Small Business Secrets - Young Australians with a disability are ‘front and centre’ at this unique hospitality training venture.
SBS Italian
SBS Italian - Hotel Etico, ad un anno dall'apertura un bilancio "decisamente positivo".
Philanthropy Australia
Hotel Etico, where workers living with disabilities are ‘front and centre’
