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Helloworld “largely intact”
Wednesday | Feb 24 2021HELLOWORLD Travel Limited has hailed the “enormous perseverance and effort” of its travel agency network members in Australia and New Zealand, saying as a result the retail groups remained “largely intact as at the end of Dec 2020”.
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FC offers COVID services
Wednesday | Feb 24 2021FLIGHT Centre Travel Group has forged an agreement with healthcare provider Healius Limited to become a distribution partner of its COVID-19-related travel testing solutions.
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Australia “ripe” for Pass
Wednesday | Feb 24 2021THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) believes Australia would be receptive to rebooting international travel sooner if the country embraced its digital Travel Pass technology.
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AFTA poll confirms impact
Tuesday | Feb 23 2021THE Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA) has today revealed the first results of its “Travelsectorkeeper” survey, revealing that more than 40% of the industry does not expect to return to profit until 2023.
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G’day to Aussie resorts
Tuesday | Feb 23 2021EL Questro Wilderness Park in WA and Kings Canyon Resort in the NT are now back in Australian hands following G’day Group’s purchase from global food service & hospitality company Delaware North, which bought the properties almost exactly a decade ago (TD 02 Mar 2010).
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Emirates to charge GDS fee
Monday | Feb 22 2021EMIRATES has become the latest carrier to impose fees on bookings through travel agent GDS platforms, with a fee of up to US$25 per sector to become effective from 01 Jul.
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NZ digital travel pass trial
Monday | Feb 22 2021AIR New Zealand will be among the first carriers to trial an electronic Travel Pass app developed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), with a planned pilot on flights between Auckland and Sydney.
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Vic “Circuit Breaker” funds
Monday | Feb 22 2021THE Victorian Government has unveiled a $143 million “Circuit Breaker” support package designed to help tourism businesses in the state impacted by last week’s multi-billion dollar snap COVID-19 lockdown.
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No bail for dodgy agent
Friday | Feb 19 2021FORMER South Australian travel consultant Arthur Zacharias (TD 09 Aug 2016) will await his fate in prison, after yesterday being refused bail during a hearing in the Adelaide Magistrates court.
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Overseas arrivals down
Friday | Feb 19 2021OVERSEAS arrivals to Australia in Jan were down by 9.7% on Dec to 31,700 estimated trips, according to new provisional statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.