News
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Rovos derailment
Thursday | Apr 22 2010SOUTH Africa’s popular tourist locomotive, Rovos Rail crashed outside Cape Town yesterday as it neared the end of its journey with 55 passengers on board.
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Jetstar to fly Taiwan to Japan
Thursday | Apr 22 2010JETSTAR has today announced the 05 Jul launch of flights between Taipei and Osaka, with the move flagged at the ATEC Symposium in Melbourne by JQ head of sales Rainer Bauer.
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Travel Daily on location at the ATEC Symposium
Thursday | Apr 22 2010THE ATEC Symposium is the annual gathering of Australia’s inbound tourism industry, and this year is being held in Tasmania as it emerges as one of Australia’s international tourism hot spots. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/sets/72157623784448987/
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Window Seat 22 Apr 10
Thursday | Apr 22 2010A STARTUP carrier in the USA called Family Airlines must really like the new Hollywood blockbuster Avatar because it’s just filed an application to changed its name to Avatar Airlines.
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Joyce reassures travellers
Thursday | Apr 22 2010QANTAS is working to secure extra aircraft landing slots at London Heathrow and Frankfurt in a bid to lift stranded and delayed passengers at airports in Asia due to the six day shutdown of European airspace this week.
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4200 entries already
Thursday | Apr 22 2010MORE than 4200 people have uploaded photos and descriptions of their favourite places in Australia in the first phase of Tourism Australia’s new ‘There’s Nothing Like Australia’ campaign.
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Travel Daily TV exclusively presents interview with Qantas CEO, Alan Joyce
Thursday | Apr 22 2010Click here to view volcano aftermath interview.
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Dollar set to dive
Thursday | Apr 22 2010CHRIS Richardson from Access Economics this morning said he expects the Australian dollar to slide to below US60c – but not for the next year or so.
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$4m China tourism boost
Thursday | Apr 22 2010FEDERAL Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson this morning announced $4m in extra funding over four years to extend the China Approved Destination Status Scheme for Australian tourism operators.
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Rudd backs industry
Thursday | Apr 22 2010PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd made a surprise appearance this morning at the ATEC Symposium in Hobart, having been accosted on the street by a delegate last night and invited to make a speech to the conference.