News
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MEL applauds CA
Thursday | Jul 15 2010MELBOURNE Airport has welcomed Air China’s (CA) move to boost services between the state capital and China from later this year, as exclusively revealed by Travel Daily (TD Fri).
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Thailand warning
Thursday | Jul 15 2010THE Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has updated its warning for Thailand, citing an extension of the state of emergency in 19 provinces, including Bangkok, until 04 Oct.
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SAT ambassador
Thursday | Jul 15 2010SOUTH African Tourism has named Sydney’s Rachael Scobie as the local Ambassador for its latest promo, which will see her join six other Ambassadors from around the globe, going on an adventure odyssey to South Africa this year.
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VA Waikato-LAX
Thursday | Jul 15 2010V AUSTRALIA and Pacific Blue today announced a connecting flight from Hamilton Airport in NZ through to LAX via Brisbane.
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Sydney for MGM?
Thursday | Jul 15 2010ONE of the world’s biggest casino operators is interested in running the hotel at the proposed Barangaroo development on the shores of Sydney harbour.
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Sydney welcomes first Adina
Thursday | Jul 15 2010LAST night Toga Hospitality hosted a group of guests for a performance at Sydney Theatre Company (STC) to help celebrate the recent rebadging of their Medina on Crown property to Adina Apartment Hotel Sydney, Crown Street (TD 23 Jun).
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Cunard record
Thursday | Jul 15 2010FOUR Australian travel agents sold more than 200 cabins on Cunard’s QM2 circumnavigation voyage in just…
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Rock on the block
Thursday | Jul 15 2010A CONSORTIUM backed by the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) is expected to be announced as the purchaser of the Voyages Ayers Rock Resort within weeks.
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Jetstar pushes boundary
Thursday | Jul 15 2010JETSTAR ceo Bruce Buchanan has renewed his call for trans-Tasman flights to be treated as domestic services, saying the move would generate more than 325,000 extra passenger movements each year.
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Homework battle hots up
Thursday | Jul 15 2010MOBILE Travel Agents has hit back at a promotional campaign by rival home-based network TravelManagers (TD yesterday), saying that claims made by TravelManagers are “frankly astonishing and lack credibility”.