News
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Agents early Austrian Xmas
Monday | Nov 22 2010Austrian National Tourist Office and Emirates show-cased the Tirol region of Austria to this group of lucky agents at the end of last week as part of the ‘Austria. Destination Summit’.
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Hotels.com app.
Monday | Nov 22 2010HOTELS.COM has launched a new Facebook app which, it says, is the first online agency to develop an application that offers full auto complete functionality, that can search for accom, compare & complete transactions.
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Bookings slide
Monday | Nov 22 2010JETSET Travelworld Group ceo Peter Lacaze has revealed a dip in Australian BSP figures for both domestic and international bookings during Oct, with the decline reversing a strong growth trend seen in previous months.
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TC pays out $690K
Monday | Nov 22 2010TRAVELLERS Choice managing director Gary Allomes said the company emerged from the downturn of “2008/09 as a lean, financially disciplined organisation, strategically well positioned to take advantage of the steadily improving trading conditions we’ve experienced over the past 12 months”.
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AA Travelport fee stuns agents
Monday | Nov 22 2010THE new “booking source premium” which will be charged by American Airlines for agents booking its segments through the Galileo GDS (TD breaking news) is likely to see the carrier suffer a big drop in bookings, according to a number of furious agents who have contacted TD this morning.
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GA SkyTeam meet
Monday | Nov 22 2010GARUDA Indonesia will meet with officials from the SkyTeam airline alliance in Jakarta on Tue to sign an official memorandum of understanding, paving the way for the carrier to join the expanding SkyTeam, by 2012.
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Calypso owner sale
Monday | Nov 22 2010TOURISM Technology, the parent company of the Calypso reservation system, is now back in the hands of its founder Graeme Hunter, who together with gm Michael Dundon has bought all TT shares formerly owned by the collapsed Roamfree.
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Top Choice for fourth year
Monday | Nov 22 2010The number one Gold Choice member of the year with Travellers Choice was awarded to Toni Chambers from Broadway Travel and Cruise Centre in WA (see here).
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Skywest WA win
Monday | Nov 22 2010PERTH-based carrier Skywest Airlines has been chosen as the “preferred proponent” for a five year licence extension to operate flights from Perth to Albany; as the sole operator to Esperance; and to Learmonth/Exmouth in a shared operator capacity.
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$10m reno for QLD Island resorts
Monday | Nov 22 2010HIDEAWAY Resorts will plough $10 million into its two Qld island properties through extensive upgrades and enhancement programs, in a bid to “unlock the potential of both islands.”