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CTM hit by virus, unrest
Wednesday | Feb 19 2020JAMIE Pherous, Corporate Travel Management CEO, says the one-off impacts of Brexit, Hong Kong demonstrations and COVID-19 have “masked an otherwise solid business performance where we have been winning customers, managing costs and growing market share”.
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Webjet takes a hit from TC
Wednesday | Feb 19 2020WEBJET’S profit for 1H20 was hit hard by the Thomas Cook collapse in Sep, with the company writing off a $44m debt in unpaid receivables from the failed company (TD breaking news).
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A Sapphire year for Oz
Wednesday | Feb 19 2020PRINCESS Cruises has announced its 2,670-passenger Sapphire Princess vessel will be redeployed from homeports in Singapore and Shanghai to Australia for an extended year-long season six months early, commencing 01 May (TD breaking news 18 Feb).
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Qld ups travel support
Wednesday | Feb 19 2020THE Queensland Government has issued a $27 million business stimulus package to Queensland businesses struggling in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Excite Directors take control
Tuesday | Feb 18 2020GEORGE Papaioannou and Nicholas Stavropoulos, the Directors of the collapsed Excite Holidays, were yesterday handed back control of four of the five companies involved in the failure – while the fifth one was removed from the Administration because according to KPMG, it was never insolvent (TD breaking news).
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LeisureCom buys Ecruising
Tuesday | Feb 18 2020PRIVATE equity-backed LeisureCom Group is expanding into the cruise sector, with the 100% acquisition of pioneering Australian online cruise seller, Ecruising (TD breaking news).
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Qantas “phishing” scam
Tuesday | Feb 18 2020QANTAS has found itself the victim of a sophisticated email scam in which frequent flyers are being invited to log into a fake Qantas website so their details can be harvested.
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TTC plots 100 more years
Tuesday | Feb 18 2020THE Travel Corporation (TTC) is busy plotting the next 100 years for the company, as it nears a century of operation in Aug.
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New improved ReadyRooms
Monday | Feb 17 2020HELLOWORLD’S acquisition of the Excite Holidays platform (TD 13 Feb) has seen the company establish a new wholly owned subsidiary in Greece, which is employing key technical and development staff who formerly worked for the collapsed Excite.
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CLIA shines light on cruise
Monday | Feb 17 2020THE cruise industry honoured its top achievers over the weekend at the 19th Annual Cruise Industry Awards in Sydney.