News
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Samoa no’s slide
Thursday | Mar 18 2010SAMOA Tourism Authority has reported a decrease of 8.6% in visitor arrival numbers during Jan compared to Jan 09, with Aussies accounting for 22% of arrivals.
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Travelscene wins
Thursday | Mar 18 2010JEREMY Reithmuller from Travelscene Wagga Wagga, and KISS Travel, WA are lucky winners of $5000 each, won in a joint Travelscene Amex and American Express Membership rewards promotion which will allocate $60,000 to 12 lucky Travelscene members over 2010.
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Air India in control
Thursday | Mar 18 2010STAR Alliance-elect member Air India has expanded its relationship with Sabre Airline Solutions, with the carrier moving closer to a fully integrated flight control system through solutions from the Sabre AirVision and Sabre AirCentre software suites.
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HoT also online
Thursday | Mar 18 2010NEW Zealand’s House of Travel has also this week launched a major online initiative – but unlike Harvey World Travel’s new search engine the HoT site is a self-service bookable system.
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South Africa educational
Thursday | Mar 18 2010Hot off the press – this photo was snapped on the African Wildlife Safaris, Flight Centre and V Australia educational to South Africa on the road this week. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4443866633/
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Two EK crew sinful
Thursday | Mar 18 2010TWO Emirates cabin crew have been convicted of “coercion to commit sin” receiving a three month prison sentence, reduced from six, in Dubai over sexually explicit text messages yesterday.
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Kempinski BKK
Thursday | Mar 18 2010EUROPEAN hotelier Kempinski has announced it will open a new property in Bangkok in Jun.
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Top of the evening to you!
Thursday | Mar 18 2010TOURISM Ireland last night turned the Opera House green in celebration of St Patrick’s day and to promote Ireland as a destination of choice. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/sets/72157623648409680/
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Jungfrau rail tkts
Thursday | Mar 18 2010RAIL Plus is offering a new rail pass in Switzerland that gives pax a chance to stop at the highest rail station in Europe – at the 3454m Jungfraujoch.
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BW growth in 2009
Thursday | Mar 18 2010THE Best Western hotel chain saw significant growth in the past year, adding 275 independently owned and operated hotels, incl 19 properties in Australia and NZ, which now totals 192 hotels.