News
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Northern exposure
Wednesday | Oct 20 2010A NEW wholesaler specialising in the Nordic, Polar and Russian regions was launched in Melbourne last week.
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Racing in Rotorua!
Wednesday | Oct 20 2010Air New Zealand and Destination Rotorua recently hosted a wholesaler famil in the NZ North Island playground of Rotorua – which is seeing a rebound in international visitors (see here).
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Sabre joins ICCA
Tuesday | Oct 19 2010GLOBAL Distribution platform Sabre Pacific has signed on with the International Cruise Council Australasia as an associate member.
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“Oh, he’s just so cute & fluffy,… like the cub”
Tuesday | Oct 19 2010Peregrine Adventures and South African Airways recently hosted a group of Flight Centre Queensland agents to a famil in South Africa.
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Flight Centre buys into gapyear.com
Tuesday | Oct 19 2010FLIGHT Centre Limited is continuing its online strategy, with yesterday’s announcement that it had acquired a majority stake in UK-based social networking site, gapyear.com (TD breaking news).
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QH week 2 winner
Tuesday | Oct 19 2010QANTAS Holidays has named Lynne Bird from Jetset Devonport as its Week 2 winner in its month long competition, exclusively featured in TD in Oct.
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Tassie NZ no’s drop
Tuesday | Oct 19 2010THE number of travellers from New Zealand visiting Tasmania has dropped by 23% year on year for the twelve months ending Jun, according to Tourism Tasmania.
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Alaskan ambassadors
Tuesday | Oct 19 2010THIS week Aussie agents are being invited to learn all about Alaska, in a series of roadshows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne undertaken by the Alaska Travel Industry Assn (see here).
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Window Seat 19 Oct 10
Tuesday | Oct 19 2010AUTHORITIES in the Chinese city of Zhengjiang have launched a major tourism campaign, creatively centred around a vinegar drinking competition.
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TAAP surge
Tuesday | Oct 19 2010EXPEDIA says the strong Aussie dollar is driving ongoing demand, with last week seeing a record high for transactions through the Travel Agent Affiliate Program.