Repurpose Historical Building for Hotel Use Case Study: Harbour Rocks Hotel, Sydney

As the world is growing where tourism is considered as a primary necessity and culture and heritage are the main role for visitor to decide their destination. One of the crucial aspects of tourism is accommodation and how combining accommodation with culture and heritage will have an impact not only to the neighbourhood and seemingly increasing the tourism sector. By doing so, the visitors have a whole experience of heritage and culture in their accommodation. Using Harbour Rocks Hotel, Sydney as case study, being described and explained with the method that derives from theories and Conservation Guideline from Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore. The findings during the research are how Indonesia can follow the same path taken by Sydney to repurpose one of the abandoned buildings located is historic area to be a hotel and how Indonesia can learn from Singapore to have a certain guidelines with regards to the conservation and preservation heritage buildings. The conclusion is turning a heritage building for hotel use will benefit the most in terms of economy, tourism, heritage and indirectly support the sustainable system by reusing another building for a