Headlines
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Airbnb regional platform
Monday | Oct 26 2020ACCOMMODATION giant Airbnb is providing $70,000 in funding for a new Australian Regional Tourism (ART) platform to help rural communities develop “world class farmstays”.
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Govt plots digital visas
Monday | Oct 26 2020THE Government’s plan to take incoming passenger cards online (TD 19 Oct) is part of an overarching “permissions capability” which would digitise and unify a range of immigration systems including visa processing.
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QF to save on agent costs
Friday | Oct 23 2020QANTAS CEO Alan Joyce this morning confirmed wide-ranging cost cutting measures to help the carrier survive the pandemic, for the first time revealing publicly that the measures include “renegotiating our arrangements with travel agents”.
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Webjet poised to grow
Friday | Oct 23 2020WEBJET’S share of the air booking market in Australia is expected to grow, with CEO John Gucsic citing the acceleration of the shift from offline to online due to the decreased presence of physical stores.
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New TMC model proposed
Friday | Oct 23 2020MELBOURNE-BASED Reho Travel’s Karsten Horne has spurred big discussion among his Helloworld for Business colleagues, with the presentation of a new retainer-based pricing model for TMCs.
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Cyber crime jumps in COVID
Friday | Oct 23 2020THE retail, hospitality and travel industries were hit with more than 4 billion web application attacks over last two years, according to a new report compiled by global cybersecurity consultant Akamai.
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Big future for agents – TTC
Thursday | Oct 22 2020THE Travel Corporation (TTC) CEO Brett Tollman believes that despite the massive disruption imposed by COVID-19, travel agents in Australia have a bright future once the pandemic passes.
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Losing $319m every day
Thursday | Oct 22 2020THE Australian economy is hemorrhaging more than $319 million a day in lost domestic and international tourism as a result of travel restrictions, a new study from the Business Council of Australia (BCA) suggests.
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P&O’s Aussie bounce back
Thursday | Oct 22 2020P&O Cruises Australia’s fleet is in shape for a “bounce back”, the cruise line has announced, with Pacific Adventure and Pacific Encounter now both joining the fleet in the first half of next year.
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Ombudsman “inundated”
Wednesday | Oct 21 2020THE office of the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO) says it has been “inundated” with more than 1,000 responses from travel agents since launching a survey on Fri asking about the industry’s travails (TD 19 Oct).