Renmark Hotel

317. Welcome to the first hotel in the British Commonwealth to be co-operatively owned

The Renmark Hotel, the oldest co-operatively owned hotel in the British Commonwealth, stands beside the Murray River in South Australia’s Riverland region. It first opened its doors in 1897 and has continued to serve the district’s renowned local produce from the same site ever since. Although the hotel’s collective ownership has remained unchanged since the […]

. Renmark Hotel

The handsome and historic Renmark Hotel, in South Australia’s Murray River region, is the oldest co-operatively owned hotel in the British Commonwealth. Since 1897 it has provided hospitality and fine local produce to the local farming community that owns it. Its manager, Michael Schuetze, says that when the small town of Renmark needed its first […]