Headlines
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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.
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Spectrum coming to Aus
Monday | Feb 17 2020Royal Caribbean Cruises will relocate Spectrum of the Seas away from China, with the vessel to sail to Sydney to operate two complimentary cruises for the first responders who helped battle Australia’s bushfires.