Headlines
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Airport regulation okay
Wednesday | Feb 6 2019EXISTING regulation of Australian airports has been endorsed by The Productivity Commission (PC) into the Economic Regulation of Airports, which has released its draft report today.
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AAT’s Red Centre growth
Tuesday | Feb 5 2019A new long-term multi-year agreement between Voyages and AAT Kings is seeing The Travel Corporation significantly boost its investments at Ayers Rock Resort.
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Concierge Travel Group sale
Tuesday | Feb 5 2019SYDNEY-BASED TMC Concierge Travel Group has been acquired by UK-based corporate and event travel business Reed & Mackay.
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Express TTC incentive launch
Tuesday | Feb 5 2019EXPRESS Travel Group (ETG) has unveiled details of an exclusive incentive in partnership with The Travel Corporation, which will see 20 top achieving agents each win a European “self-paced” famil.
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Pardon, release for Lake
Monday | Feb 4 2019AUSTRALIAN travel identity Trevor Lake, who was imprisoned in Cambodia four years ago over allegations of having sex with underage girls (TD 08 Aug 2014), has been granted a full pardon.
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TTC highlights Treadright
Monday | Feb 4 2019THE Travel Corporation is celebrating a decade of operation of its not-for-profit Treadright Foundation with a renewed pledge to make an even greater difference to the planet’s future.
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oneworld plots lounges
Monday | Feb 4 2019THE oneworld airline alliance has announced the rollout of “oneworld branded and managed airport lounges,” with the announcement coinciding with the alliance’s 20th anniversary and a major brand makeover which aims to encourage passengers to “Travel Bright”.
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Bestjet to be liquidated
Friday | Feb 1 2019YESTERDAY’S second meeting of creditors of the collapsed Bestjet Travel and Wynyard Travel voted for the businesses to be liquidated, amid revelations that the company’s Xero-based online accounting system had been accessed four times since the OTA ceased trading on 18 Dec.
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Travelport steps up NDC
Friday | Feb 1 2019TRAVEL commerce platform Travelport has completed the onboarding of the first group of travel agencies to receive access to NDC content.
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NSW insurance campaign
Friday | Feb 1 2019THE NSW Government has launched a campaign urging overseas visitors to take out health insurance to help combat the $30m of annual unpaid hospital bills.