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NTIA 2022 – what a night!
Monday | Oct 17 2022THE collective spirits of Australia’s travel industry soared on Sat night as about 1,200 people from across the country gathered for the glittering 2022 National Travel Industry Awards.
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High school travel training
Monday | Oct 17 2022AUSTRALIAN year 11 and 12 high school students will be more easily able to transition directly into the travel industry, under key changes to the High School Industry Curriculum Framework which will commence in 2023.
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Barry is back in travel
Monday | Oct 17 2022FORMER Contiki Holidays and Trafalgar MD Katrina Barry was this morning announced as a new Board member of Webjet Limited (TD breaking news), with the move marking her return to the travel sector, at least in a non-executive director capacity.
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Just one sleep until NTIA
Friday | Oct 14 2022THE industry is set for a restless sleep tonight, as anticipation of the Australian travel sector’s first post-pandemic celebratory night of nights builds to fever pitch.
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QF links east to Coral
Friday | Oct 14 2022VICTORIANS will soon be able to fly direct to Western Australia’s Coral Coast, home of the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef, for the first time thanks to a new Qantas service.
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BCD showcases 2023 trends
Friday | Oct 14 2022BCD Meetings & Events (M&E) has released its sixth annual trends report, revealing “meetings and events are back in a big way”.
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Qantas confident of profit
Thursday | Oct 13 2022QANTAS has this morning projected that its 1H23 underlying profit before tax will be between $1.2-1.3 billion (TD breaking news), marking the carrier’s emergence from five consecutive halves of heavy losses due to the pandemic.
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Stuba enhances curation
Thursday | Oct 13 2022GLOBAL accommodation travel wholesaler Stuba has announced a “new era” in trade-only accommodation booking systems, launching its new Curated Collections platform that it says will significantly cut down on the search time required for agents and suppliers.
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Demand quelling dollar
Thursday | Oct 13 2022GROWING demand for international travel is helping to minimise the impact that the weakening Aussie dollar is having on Qantas’ operations, the carrier’s Chief Financial Officer Vanessa Hudson has revealed.
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O’brien named as MCEC ceo
Thursday | Oct 13 2022FORMER Food and Wine Victoria CEO Natalie O’Brien was today named as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC).