News
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Footy tipping
Thursday | Mar 11 2010DON’T forget to register for this year’s Travel Daily AFL and NRL footy tipping competitions, and get your tips in for the NRL first round which kicks off Fri night.
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Sydney drops off QR map
Thursday | Mar 11 2010THE online route map on the Qatar Airways website has been modified to remove Sydney as an imminently launching destination.
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A$ higher against £
Thursday | Mar 11 2010THE Australian dollar has hit fresh 25-year highs against the British pound Sterling, after weak UK industrial performance
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TA language boost
Thursday | Mar 11 2010TOURISM Australia’s main website at www.australia.com is now available in three new languages, with the launch last week of special editions in Thai, Russian and Spanish for Latin and South America.
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Record NTIA nominations
Thursday | Mar 11 2010THERE are just two days left for the industry to nominate for this year’s National Travel Industry Awards – but AFTA says there’s already been a huge response with the number of nominations received so far already topping last year’s record figures.
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Qantas BKK alert
Thursday | Mar 11 2010QANTAS is warning its passengers travelling to and from Bangkok this weekend to allow significantly more time than usual to travel to and from the city’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport because of possible unrest.
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Sunshine for Sabre
Thursday | Mar 11 2010SABRE Pacific elevated Chris Wilks to the newly created State Manager role in Queensland.
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Viking 2011 out
Thursday | Mar 11 2010VIKING River Cruises today released dates and pricing for 2011 departures on a range of voyages in Europe, Russia and Egypt, in response to “record sales and high demand” for some itineraries which are already almost sold out for 2010.
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Travel Daily on location in Abu Dhabi
Wednesday | Mar 10 2010THE group of agents and wholesalers participating in this first Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority Mega Famil took in a few of the UAE capital city’s most popular tourist sites today.
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Backpackers strong
Wednesday | Mar 10 2010ATEC has hailed the results of Tourism Australia’s International Visitor Survey for Dec, which showed inbound numbers in the backpacker sector up 2% to 570,000 and expenditure up by 10.4% to almost $3.5 billion.