Headlines
-
NTIA 2023 host named
Tuesday | Nov 7 2023POPULAR comedian Anthony “Lehmo” Lehmann has today been announced as the host of the upcoming National Travel Industry Awards, set to take place in less than two weeks at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium.
-
New sports tix platform
Tuesday | Nov 7 2023MYTICKETPRO has launched a sports ticketing platform for the tourism industry, providing travel professionals access to verified live ticket inventory for North American sports events.
-
YHA for wildlife
Tuesday | Nov 7 2023NOT-FOR-PROFIT accommodation network YHA Australia has partnered with World Animal Protection to develop a new set of wildlife guidelines for tours and experiences with wild and captive wild animals.
-
Webjet leads Carbon offset uptake
Tuesday | Nov 7 2023WEBJET has seen a 72% year-on-year increase in tonnes of carbon emissions offset via its Sustainable Traveller program, with a record 119,300 bookings this year alone.
-
Perth to host WTTC in ’24
Monday | Nov 6 2023THE World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) will host its next Global Summit in Perth, with the WA Capital announced as the location for the first time the event has ever been in Oceania.
-
QF defends Garuda deal
Monday | Nov 6 2023QANTAS has rebuffed accusations from rivals that a codeshare proposal with Garuda will lessen competition (TD 16 Oct), claiming the criticism fails to incorporate the Indonesian carrier’s reduced fleet size.
-
China numbers dwindle
Monday | Nov 6 2023THE recovery of the Chinese visitor market continues to lag well behind the rest of Australia’s other big source markets, the latest data from Tourism Research Australia (TRA) shows.
-
Cash is still king: Travelex
Monday | Nov 6 2023MORE than half of Australian outbound travellers still use cash as their primary form of foreign currency when overseas, according to new research from forex specialist Travelex.
-
QF arrests “loss of trust”
Friday | Nov 3 2023IT WAS a very self-reflective mood at Qantas’ Annual General Meeting this morning, with both CEO Vanessa Hudson and Chair Richard Goyder acknowledging a loss of trust and a need for “renewal” moving forward.
-
Australia key for Hurtigruten
Friday | Nov 3 2023HURTIGRUTEN Cruises continues to go from strength to strength in the local market, with the company’s Asia Pacific MD, Damian Perry, confirming that about a quarter of Hurtigruten’s global passenger numbers for its Antarctica operations are now sourced in Australia & NZ.