The trip from a hotel room to Brisbane Airport will become a lot shorter for some visitors from 2017, with work beginning on two new hotels adjacent to the domestic terminal long-term car park.

Work officially started on the 130-room Pullman and 243-room Ibis hotels, along with the 600-capacity, 1735 square metre Brisbane Airport Conference Centre, at a ceremonial sod-turning on Wednesday.

Brisbane Airport will get two new hotels in 2017.

Joint developer Scott Flynn, the managing director of Scott Flynn Properties, said that sod-turning was "several years in the making".

Along with his brother Anthony Flynn, of the Flynn Property Group, Mr Flynn already owned and operated the Brisbane Airport Novotel, down the road near the DFO centre.