Headlines
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CATO’s Touring Academy
Monday | Mar 4 2024THE Council of Australian Tour Operators (CATO) has unveiled a new Touring Academy it believes will help improve the knowledge travel agents have of land-based tour operators and wholesalers.
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S Korean demand K-pops
Monday | Mar 4 2024STRONGER than anticipated demand for Contiki’s first trip to South Korea next month (TD 02 Aug 2023) has led the youth operator to add new departure dates in 2024 and 2025.
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Agent burnout warning
Monday | Mar 4 2024ITRAVEL Australia CEO Steve Labroski has heralded significant opportunity in 2024 but suggested that advisors would have to walk the tightrope between burnout and success in order to capitalise on it.
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Rex flags uncertain future
Friday | Mar 1 2024WHILE Rex has managed to stem most of the bleeding in after-tax profits for the six months to 31 Dec 2023, the carrier declined to provide a profit guidance for FY24 due to an “uncertain economic outlook”.
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Qantas welcomes A220s
Friday | Mar 1 2024QANTASLINK’S two new Airbus A220 aircraft are taking off today for their first commercial flights, marking the next chapter of the carrier’s phasing out of Boeing 717 aircraft.
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Sabre champions NDC
Friday | Mar 1 2024SABRE Corporation has rolled out two new cloud-based travel management solutions designed to help Asia Pacific agencies to transition to using NDC content.
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DNSW corporate refresh
Friday | Mar 1 2024COMPREHENSIVE data on visitor markets and insights are now available to stakeholders in NSW tourism via a new corporate website from Destination NSW.
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ATAS spotlights members
Friday | Mar 1 2024AUSTRALIAN Travel Accreditation Scheme (ATAS) members are reaping the benefits from ongoing mainstream media profiling, the Australian Travel Industry Association (ATIA) has spruiked this week (TD 27 Feb).
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Air NZ inks SIA until ’29
Thursday | Feb 29 2024AIR New Zealand and Singapore Airlines have been granted regulatory approval by the NZ Government to extend their joint venture alliance until 2029.
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FCTG says No No to GOGO
Thursday | Feb 29 2024FLIGHT Centre Travel Group’s (FCTG) recent decision to close its loss-making US wholesaler GOGO Vacations comes as it prepares to capitalise on new opportunities in leisure and corporate travel.