Headlines
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TA goes live with recovery
Thursday | May 7 2020TOURISM Australia has revealed plans to kick off a major tourism campaign, designed to keep the country’s tourism sector front-of-mind when travel restrictions are eventually lifted.
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ETG’s first Alatus agent
Thursday | May 7 2020EXPRESS Travel Group (ETG) has announced that business travel specialist Connections Group has joined its new Alatus Corporate agency network (TD 29 Apr).
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The trans-Tasman bubble and post COVID-19 travel
Thursday | May 7 2020DR Jeff Jarvis is Director of the Graduate Tourism Program at Melbourne’s Monash University.
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QR plots network recovery
Thursday | May 7 2020QATAR Airway today announced the phased rebuilding of its international flight network, with plans to have services operating to 80 destinations by the end of next month.
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NZ travel could be sooner
Wednesday | May 6 2020NEW Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters has stated travel between Australia and his country could arrive “a whole lot sooner than people think”.
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Cameron-Smith promoted
Wednesday | May 6 2020THE Travel Corporation (TTC) has appointed Matthew Cameron-Smith to the newly created role of CEO of the AAT Kings Group (TD breaking news yesterday).
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Virgin Atlantic cuts back
Wednesday | May 6 2020VIRGIN Atlantic has announced plans to lay off more than 3,150 staff across all functions of the business in a bid to ensure it can emerge from the COVID-19 crisis in a recoverable position.
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QF updates credit offer
Tuesday | May 5 2020QANTAS is modifying its systems to allow users with flight credits to redeem them across multiple future bookings.
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Spending drop bottoms
Tuesday | May 5 2020THE relaxation of stay-at-home orders is seen as key to initiating a recovery in consumer spending on travel, which has bottomed out for the last three periods covered by Travel Daily’s exclusive News Corp Australia index (pictured).
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Travel class action planned
Tuesday | May 5 2020LAW firm Slater & Gordon is soliciting input from consumers whose travel plans have been impacted due to COVID-19 and were then provided with a credit voucher rather than a refund.