Headlines
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Aussie Austria stats soar
Wednesday | Nov 17 2010THE Austrian National Tourist Office has reported a 20.5% year-on- year increase in Australian visitors during the peak ‘summer period’ (May-Sep), ANTO director for Australia/NZ, Astrid Mulholland-Licht has revealed.
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OETG independent target
Tuesday | Nov 16 2010ORIENT Express Travel Group has set its sights firmly on the 1200 or so unaligned agents across Australia, with the planned launch of a new “brand support tag line” as part of its 2011 1ndependence group offering.
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Astrid’s Austrian summit
Tuesday | Nov 16 2010ASTRID Mulholland-Licht, the head of the Austrian National Tourist Office in Australia and NZ, has this week launched a “new generation of platforms” for preferred travel agents, which is likely to be adopted by the organisation across its key international markets.
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NT tour operator collapse
Monday | Nov 15 2010DARWIN-based tour operator Top End Escapes has ceased trading, with Tourism NT stepping in to attempt to minimise disruption by liaising with affected passengers and suppliers.
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TA targets spending boom
Monday | Nov 15 2010TOURISM Australia today outlined a “new strategic approach” for Australia’s tourism industry, aimed at doubling overnight visitor expenditure to $140 billion annually by 2020.
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Amadeus hotel platform
Friday | Nov 12 2010TRAVEL technology firm Amadeus has today launched a new solution for accommodation operators which it claims will “transform the way hotels do business”.
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A380 reaccommodation
Friday | Nov 12 2010THE rescheduling of QF services due to the A380 groundings (TD yesterday) is causing major consternation for travel agents and passengers, because altered timings means many travellers will miss connecting flights.
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A380 European directive
Thursday | Nov 11 2010THE European Aviation Safety Agency has issued an interim airworthiness directive for A380 aircraft operating the Rolls Royce Trent-900 aircraft, ordering repetitive inspections of parts of the engines to “detect any abnormal oil leakage, and if any discrepancy is found, to prohibit further engine operation”.
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Responsible Oz tourism
Thursday | Nov 11 2010TWO Australian tourism operators have been named as winners in the annual Responsible Tourism Awards overnight at World Travel Market in London.
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SQ suspends A380 flights
Wednesday | Nov 10 2010SINGAPORE Airlines this morning cancelled the departure of one of its A380 flights from London, telling pax that engine maker Rolls Royce had placed an “embargo” on A380 aircraft using its Trent 900 engines, as exclusively revealed to the world in TD’s breaking news.