News
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McGraw tkt winners
Tuesday | Sep 14 2010TRAVEL Daily was inundated with readers keen to win tickets to see Tim McGraw perform live at Acer Arena in Sydney, in last week’s exclusive comp, courtesy of Macau Gov’t Tourism Office.
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JTG agents to AKL
Tuesday | Sep 14 2010JETSET Travelworld will this weekend hold its Business Select conference in Auckland at the Langham Hotel.
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Michael’s off to Europe!
Tuesday | Sep 14 2010Michael Williams, a Sydney travel consultant who works with one of Rail Europe’s GSA’s, was the lucky winner of our Roving Reporter competition last month and will shortly head off on the rail trip of a lifetime around Europe.
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Cruise West update
Tuesday | Sep 14 2010ADVENTURE World has set up a dedicated customer service team to provide help for agents with existing Cruise West bookings, as uncertainty about the Seattle-based operator’s future continues.
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Walshe gearing up
Tuesday | Sep 14 2010THE parent company of the Walshe Group, Southern Travel, is expecting that its revenue earned in Australia will exceed that from New Zealand in the coming financial year, and is “gearing its operations to cope with and expand this very substantial potential”.
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California roadshow
Tuesday | Sep 14 2010AGENTS are being invited to attend an upcoming California Tourism roadshow which will take place next month in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
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TT adds tenth A320
Tuesday | Sep 14 2010TIGER Airways yesterday confirmed the addition of a tenth aircraft to its Australian-based fleet (TD Fri) with the extra A320 to be based at Melbourne Tullamarine airport from Dec.
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SQ looking at second MEL A380
Tuesday | Sep 14 2010SINGAPORE Airlines is believed to be considering a second daily A380 service between Melbourne and Singapore, with premium loads recovering as the global economy turns around.
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TravelXperts grows
Tuesday | Sep 14 2010THE new TravelXperts “professional independents travel agent network” (TD 24 Aug) has added Sydney TMC Spencer Travel as well as Adelaide’s Cruising Plus and online hotel distributor Rooms XML to its membership.
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Branson struts his stuff
Tuesday | Sep 14 2010Virgin Blue Airlines Group celebrated its 10th anniversary in typical Virgin style on Sun in Melbourne with new ceo John Borghetti and Sir Richard Branson proving to staff and crew they aren’t just all brains, but know how to groove too (see here).