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Agents must take charge
Tuesday | Nov 29 2022IN A world of diminishing margins and evaporating BSP commissions, Travellers Choice (TC) Managing Director Christian Hunter believes a fee-for-service model is “no longer optional” for Australian travel agents.
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QF sweetens the QDP pot
Tuesday | Nov 29 2022QANTAS has followed through with a commitment to offer travel agents access to discounts when using its Qantas Distribution Platform (QDP), announcing that up to 4% savings on base domestic fares are available from today (TD breaking news).
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Overseas arrivals needed
Tuesday | Nov 29 2022TOURISM NT has conceded that while domestic holiday visitation and expenditure levels are tracking toward a strong recovery, int’l visitation is yet to return to pre-COVID levels.
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TC enjoys strong recovery
Monday | Nov 28 2022THE first in-person Travellers Choice Annual General Meeting in three years took place in Melbourne over the weekend, with a higher-than-anticipated 200 delegates in attendance.
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Profitability in sight for Rex
Monday | Nov 28 2022REX Airlines (REX) believes its regional Saab operations will return to monthly profitability by Q3 of the 2023 financial year.
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TC One adds tours/cruise
Monday | Nov 28 2022TRAVELLERS Choice will further enhance its TC One online booking platform for members, incorporating touring options from 31 Dec and fully-integrated cruise bookings from Jun next year (TD breaking news).
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Sheldon takes shelter
Monday | Nov 28 2022A NSW Senator who labelled Qantas “mongrels” and “big corporate gorillas” who “hoard all the bananas”, has been slapped down by the carrier today, which issued a fierce rebuke of the characterisations made regarding a proposal to move some of its workers off enterprise bargaining agreements in exchange for individual contracts.
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Int’l traffic 70% shy of ’19
Friday | Nov 25 2022INTERNATIONAL air passenger traffic in Australia for the 12 months to Sep was around 70% short of pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest update from The Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE).
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Exxy airfares deter Aussies
Friday | Nov 25 2022RISING airfares and an overall increase in travel costs have put off more than a third of Australians from travelling, new research from Finder has revealed.
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$50 million of dreaming
Friday | Nov 25 2022ARDENT Leisure’s Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast is preparing to invest more than $50 million on the second phase of its future growth plan.