Headlines
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Perfect storm impacts EXP
Friday | Feb 21 2020LISTED activities operator Experience Co yesterday reported a six-month loss of $7.1 million, with the business hit by a triple whammy of bushfires, coronavirus and restructuring.
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Cruiseco confident of surge
Friday | Feb 21 2020AMBITIONS remain high at Cruiseco, with the consortium confident it can double its business over the next five years despite a shift in strategy seeing it move away from full ship charters.
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APAC air demand dwindles
Friday | Feb 21 2020AIRLINES in the Asia Pacific region are set to bear a combined US$27.8 billion loss in revenue in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) warns.
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Lower the COVID-19 threat
Friday | Feb 21 2020WHILE the threat of COVID-19 remains small for most of the western world, companies are taking precautions by releasing safety guidance policies for its travelling employees to protect against any possible threat.
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Qantas slashes Asia flights
Thursday | Feb 20 2020QANTAS this morning unveiled sweeping cuts to some of its Asian routes, as it responds to an ongoing demand slump relating to the coronavirus crisis.
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Webjet chooses Cover-More
Thursday | Feb 20 2020WEBJET and Cover-More have inked a new agreement that will see the insurer become the exclusive provider of travel insurance for the OTA across Australia and New Zealand.
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QF profit OK despite headwinds
Thursday | Feb 20 2020QANTAS CEO Alan Joyce this morning hailed the carrier’s performance for the six months to 31 Dec, with an underlying profit result of $771 million, down just $4 million despite a range of issues including high foreign exchange costs, unrest in Hong Kong and increased domestic airport charges.
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Uniworld launches its first trade partnership program
Thursday | Feb 20 2020LAST Fri night, 14 Feb, Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection, the world’s most luxurious all-inclusive river cruise line, invited its top-producing and most engaged trade partners from around Australia for an evening of celebration at the Deckhouse in Woolwich. Hosted by Uniworld’s President & CEO Ellen Bettridge, the evening began in style with guests boarding a vintage Sydney ferry which transported them to the exclusive secret location. The agency partners were inducted into Uniworld’s new partnership program, Alchemy, which is designed to support and reward top agents through priority access to reservations, access to local area marketing funds, stateroom upgrades for industry rates, and famil opportunities. The program will run on a calendar year basis with the next intake of Alchemy members to be inducted in Jan 2021, giving all agents the opportunity to participate. When asked what Alchemy means, “for us it’s the perfect word that describes the magical moment when the right client is recommended the right cruise,” said Bettridge.
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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).