News
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Adventure World Warriors
Thursday | Dec 9 2010ADVENTURE World unveiled its new 100 page China brochure and launched two new destinations – Korea and Japan – at The First Emperor: China’s Entombed Warriors exhibit at the Art Gallery of New South Wales last night (see here).
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Best Western Tanzania
Thursday | Dec 9 2010BEST Western International has opened its first hotel in Tanzania, the 62-room Best Western Coral Beach Hotel in Dar El Salaam.
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Smith ICCA chair
Thursday | Dec 9 2010ROYAL Caribbean’s Australasian md, Gavin Smith, has been named as the new Chairman of the International Cruise Council Australasia, after the ICCA annual general meeting in Sydney on Tue.
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Strategic move, ladies!
Thursday | Dec 9 2010Rock legend Bono from U2 was happy to meet this group of avid fans from Strategic Airlines when he arrived in Brisbane yesterday afternoon
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UK to relax LAG ban
Thursday | Dec 9 2010AVIATION authorities in the UK have confirmed plans to relax the current LAGs requirements which ban the carriage of liquids, gels or aerosols in containers larger than 100ml.
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DXB opening delay
Thursday | Dec 9 2010THE start of passenger operations at the new Al Maktoum airport in Dubai may be delayed by a few months, according to Dubai Airports ceo Paul Griffiths.
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All inclusive fines
Thursday | Dec 9 2010THE ACCC is cracking down on the all-inclusive pricing requirements across the hospitality and travel industry (TD 01 Jul), with a Canberra cafe fined $20,000 for fine print on its menus which detailed a 10% surcharge on Sundays and public holidays.
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Window Seat 09 Dec 10
Thursday | Dec 9 2010THERE’S certainly no doubt about the many talents of Sandra Chiles of inPlace Recruitment, who is known and admired across the Australian travel industry for her years of experience and expertise.
But her abilities extend to more than finding the perfect travel job or candidate, as her win in the recent ‘The Moment’ photo competition run by Fairfax Publications will attest. -
Counsellors gm soon
Thursday | Dec 9 2010TRAVEL Counsellors says it’s currently in the “induction process” of its new Australian general manager, who is yet to be officially announced.
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Discovery Ecotours probe
Thursday | Dec 9 2010THE administrator of Discovery Ecotours, which collapsed earlier this year (TD 09 Apr) is urging further investigation of the activities of the company’s director, Neil Hermes.