Headlines
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MEL passengers rise 6%
Tuesday | Jul 20 2010MELBOURNE Airport says a 6% rise in passenger numbers over the 2009/10 financial year is a “testament to the city’s standing as a growing tourism and business destination of significant international importance”.
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Expedia fires up on fees
Tuesday | Jul 20 2010ONLINE travel company Expedia has slammed its main rival Webjet along with other un-named travel websites, who it says are charging “unacceptably high booking fees” for flights that “deliver little or no value.”
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ACCC cans WA car cartel
Monday | Jul 19 2010CAR rental companies operating at Perth Airport will not be able to collectively negotiate, after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission confirmed an earlier draft decision (TD 14 May) blocking the plan.
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CTC to close in Australia
Monday | Jul 19 2010A GLOBAL revamp within the Canadian Tourism Commission looks set to see the closure of the organisation’s long-running Australian office, to be replaced instead by a GSA.
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Flight Centre gets social
Friday | Jul 16 2010FLIGHT Centre has appointed its first ever Global Social Media Manager, with Gregg Tilston taking up the newly created role effective immediately.
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New online wholesaler
Friday | Jul 16 2010AUSTRALIAN travel agents have been targeted by a leading online travel trade service provider from Ireland, which has established an Australian presence including a local website and business development manager.
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Jetstar pushes boundary
Thursday | Jul 15 2010JETSTAR ceo Bruce Buchanan has renewed his call for trans-Tasman flights to be treated as domestic services, saying the move would generate more than 325,000 extra passenger movements each year.
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Homework battle hots up
Thursday | Jul 15 2010MOBILE Travel Agents has hit back at a promotional campaign by rival home-based network TravelManagers (TD yesterday), saying that claims made by TravelManagers are “frankly astonishing and lack credibility”.
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Thailand set for revival
Wednesday | Jul 14 2010THE Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched a massive tourism revival program in front of more than 700 travel agents, tour operators and media people from around the world at a lavish function designed to help revive visitor arrivals so badly affected by political unrest.
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787 deliveries advanced
Wednesday | Jul 14 2010QANTAS will receive the first of its 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft in mid-2012, after reaching an agreement with Boeing to bring forward the delivery of the first eight of the new-generation aircraft (TD breaking news).