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Flight Centre slashes costs
Thursday | Mar 26 2020STAFF cuts, 250 store closures and suspension of all promotional activity are among radical actions announced today by Flight Centre Travel Group (TD breaking news) as the company continues to grapple with the COVID-19 crisis.
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Aussie Dream cancelled
Thursday | Mar 26 2020DREAM Cruises yesterday confirmed the withdrawal of its planned 2020/21 Explorer Dream deployment in local waters due to ongoing concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Brands and the future
Thursday | Mar 26 2020NEIL Stollznow is a Director of Stollznow Research, a leading research and insights advisory that has a speciality in visitor and travel research and has provided this comment on how to prepare your brand during the COVID-19 crisis.
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No AFTA membership fees
Wednesday | Mar 25 2020THE Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA) today announced it would not charge any membership fees for the next billing year, as one of several measures to support ATAS accredited agencies and the wider Australian travel sector.
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Virgin Australia shrinks
Wednesday | Mar 25 2020VIRGIN Australia Group has further shrunk its operations, reducing its domestic capacity to 90% and will stand down approximately 80% of its workforce (TD breaking news) following the escalation of state border closures across Australia.
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ScoMo bans int’l travel
Wednesday | Mar 25 2020PRIME Minister Scott Morrison last night escalated the existing global Level 4 “Do not Travel” advisory for Australian citizens to an outright ban (TD breaking news), claiming some people are still departing on leisure trips despite the COVID-19 situation.
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Emirates, Etihad grounded
Tuesday | Mar 24 2020AN overnight edict by the rulers of the United Arab Emirates has seen two of the world’s largest international carriers suspend all flights effective from tomorrow night (TD breaking news).
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Agents call for protection
Tuesday | Mar 24 2020SUPPLIERS protecting commission has been ranked by travel agents as the most helpful initiative to help them manage the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their business, in the TD Business Support Poll.
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Travel spending plummets
Tuesday | Mar 24 2020THE latest News Corp Australia consumer travel spending index (pictured) clearly demonstrates the slump in demand, with the figures now including data for the week commencing 09 Mar.
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“Calm and confident” – WWT
Monday | Mar 23 2020WENDY Wu Tours (WWT) founder Wendy Wu says although Australia is currently in the grip of the coronavirus crisis, she is “very calm and very confident” that the market will recover.