News
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Travel Daily on location in Hong Kong
Thursday | Apr 8 2010TODAY our family familiarisation group will visit Hong Kong’s Ocean Park, which is one of the world’s best marine theme parks.
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Window Seat 08 Apr 10
Thursday | Apr 8 2010ABU DHABI is set to get a boost from the new Sex and the City 2 movie, despite not a single scene being shot in the UAE.
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Clarkson tickets
Thursday | Apr 8 2010MACAU Gov’t Tourist Office has named the lucky winners of the Kelly Clarkson competition which featured exclusively in TD last week as: Gloria Baidarman, World Business Travel; Trish Cox; American Express; Kerry Clarke, AMEX Centurion Travel; Nicole Blake, Spencer Travel; Sue Barton, The Travel Authority; Sylvia Young, Travel by Design and Charlene Veverka, AMEX Business Travel.
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Sheather appointed
Thursday | Apr 8 2010JULIE Sheather has been named as head of the newly established joint industry-gov’t initiative that aims to increase the number of int’l conventions being held around the country.
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Emirates kids fly free deal
Thursday | Apr 8 2010THIRTEEN Aussie wholesalers will soon begin promoting a new ‘Kids Fly Free’ deal to the UAE with Emirates as part of a global campaign backed by Dubai Tourism & Commerce Marketing, hoteliers and local DMCs.
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DJ ups Coffs seats
Thursday | Apr 8 2010VIRGIN Blue is upgrading its aircraft operating on a number of peak routes between Sydney-Coffs Harbour by around 600 seats a week due to high demand.
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Qik Book growth
Thursday | Apr 8 2010TRAVEL2 has doubled the range of destinations agents can book or quote packages using Qik Book to eight, now covering Rarotonga, Vanuatu, Hawaii (Honolulu) and New Zealand.
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APTMS restructure
Thursday | Apr 8 2010ASIA Pacific Travel Marketing Services founder David Mulley says the establishment of Momento Travel Services and the appointment of Kylee Kay as managing director (TD yesterday) is part of an ongoing restructure of the business, which is still subject to as-yet unfiled Australian Securities and Investment Commission paperwork.
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UA/US merger?
Thursday | Apr 8 2010UAL Corp., the parent company of United Airlines, and US Airways are believed to be in merger talks again, with media reports from the US suggesting a tie-up could be announced in a few months.
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QF adds 7 Chinese cities
Thursday | Apr 8 2010CHINA bound travellers from Australia will shortly have seven new destinations to select from following an extension of Qantas’ current codeshare with China Eastern Airlines (MU), exclusively revealed by TD yesterday.