News
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iTrek campaign cancelled
Wednesday | Mar 17 2010PRESSURE exerted by travel agents in Australia and the USA has forced the cancellation of the controversial ‘The Travel Agent is Dead’ marketing campaign undertaken by online insurance provider iTrek (TD 09 Mar).
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Best Western green
Wednesday | Mar 17 2010BEST Western is claiming to be the first hotelier in Australia to introduce a fully biodegradable range of bathroom products.
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Points for holidays
Wednesday | Mar 17 2010QANTAS Frequent Flyers have a chance to earn 5000 points when booking any Qantas or Jetstar flight with a hotel package in Australia online through Qantas Holidays.
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EY AUS lounges
Wednesday | Mar 17 2010ETIHAD Airways is currently in the process of reviewing locations at Sydney and Melbourne Airports to establish its first dedicated airport lounges in Australia.
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TD Breaking News – V Australia to boost South Africa
Wednesday | Mar 17 2010V Australia to add third weekly Melbourne-Johannesburg flight
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Intrepid GM’s bowled over
Wednesday | Mar 17 2010INTREPID Travel’s twenty one General Managers from its global network of sales and operations companies were all brought together recently for a week of meetings and planning for further growth in 2010 and beyond. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4443030480/
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FJ time changes
Wednesday | Mar 17 2010AIR Pacific has confirmed that a number of scheduling changes will apply to its flights during the week from 28 Mar, due to daylight saving ending in Fiji on that date, but slightly later in Sydney and Melbourne, on 04 Apr.
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ExcelleNT results
Wednesday | Mar 17 2010THE Northern Territory was the only place in Australia to grow its domestic visitor market for the year to 31 Dec, with 4.3% overall increase – 20,000 extra visitors.
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Big rush for QM2
Wednesday | Mar 17 2010MORE than 1300 people have already registered their interest to travel on the groundbreaking Queen Mary 2 circumnavigation of Australia, as first revealed in TD last week (TD 08 Mar).
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Michael J thriller
Wednesday | Mar 17 2010SOFITEL Macau has launched a tribute to Michael Jackson by opening a gallery containing 10 items of his, including the jewelled glove he wore when he premiered the moonwalk.