News
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Gap tree planting
Friday | Jul 16 2010GAP Adventures is inviting the travel industry to join with them in next month’s PlanetARK National Tree Day in Melbourne.
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TCF termination
Friday | Jul 16 2010THE Travel Compensation Fund has this morning announced the non-voluntary termination of Koralia Tours, Strathfield NSW (ABN: 66 099 615 568) effective 15 Jul, as its licence was cancelled.
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German €26 tax
Friday | Jul 16 2010THE German govt has draft a law to impose a new air travel tax on airlines from 01 Jan of up to €26pp (AU$38) on long haul flights, as flagged by Travel Daily recently (TD 09 Jun).
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Marc and the Masterchef
Friday | Jul 16 2010AS this year’s Masterchef TV series approaches its climax, host Gary Mehigan yesterday was the guest of honour at a special celebrity luncheon at the Sydney Sofitel Wentworth (see here).
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BA gets mobile
Friday | Jul 16 2010BRITISH Airways is the latest carrier to offer mobile boarding passes for iPhone users from next week, initially on routes between London Heathrow and Edinburgh.
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SYD fuel chaos
Friday | Jul 16 2010DISRUPTION is expected at Sydney Airport next week, with refuellers yesterday giving notice of a 24 hour strike on 21 Jul.
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Pan Pacific appoint
Friday | Jul 16 2010PAN Pacific Hotels Group has announced the appointment of Nigel Roberts to the position of vice president, area operations Oceania, as flagged by Travel Daily last week (TD 07 Jul).
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TA Facebook fans
Friday | Jul 16 2010TOURISM Australia says it now has more than 500,000 fans for its Facebook social networking platform, which launched in 2008.
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Window Seat 16 Jul 10
Friday | Jul 16 2010MEXICO City is hoping for a surge in gay tourism, offering a free honeymoon to the first gay couple to wed in Argentina, after the South American country yesterday became the first in the region to legalise same-sex marriages.
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787 may slip again
Friday | Jul 16 2010BOEING this morning issued a ‘cautionary note’ that the delivery of its first 787 aircraft to launch customer ANA may slip into the early weeks of 2011.