News
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Free China airfare
Tuesday | Nov 23 2010SCENIC Tours has a partner fly free promo available on its 20-day China and City of the Sun, Lhasa tour for 2011/12 departures representing a saving of $930.
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TIA consumer link
Tuesday | Nov 23 2010AFTA is working with key industry partners to highlight the importance of the National Travel Industry Awards, as part of its planned Travel Agent Awareness consumer campaign (TD 26 Oct).
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Harrah’s ditch IPO
Tuesday | Nov 23 2010HARRAH’S Entertainment Group has announced plans to scrap a planned initial public offering of common stock, (TD 09 Nov) “due to market conditions”.
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WA Flighties on the rocks
Tuesday | Nov 23 2010Virgin Blue and AAT Kings recently hosted nine Flight Centre consultants from WA on a NZ South Island familiarisation.
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Window Seat 23 Nov 10
Tuesday | Nov 23 2010MELBOURNE-based Sarah Whitty from Radisson Edwardian Hotels brightened up the business section of Saturday’s Australian newspaper.
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TD winners
Tuesday | Nov 23 2010CONGRATULATIONS to Rebecca Hamerton from Globus who was the lucky winner of last Fri’s Bucket List competition in TD.
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Review report in Dec
Tuesday | Nov 23 2010AFTA has confirmed that it expects the Pricewaterhouse Coopers report into consumer protection in the travel industry to be on the agenda of next month’s Ministerial Council on Consumer Affairs meeting which is scheduled for 02 Dec.
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More HWT-owned shops
Tuesday | Nov 23 2010HARVEY World Travel is set to open more company-owned stores in the next year, with md David Rivers telling TD that “we are looking at a number of key locations around Australia”.
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2011 conferences
Tuesday | Nov 23 2010TRAVELLERS Choice will hold its 2011 Shareholders Conference in Singapore, while Harvey World Travel’s 2011 Symposium will take place in Sydney.
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Webjet slams AA
Tuesday | Nov 23 2010WEBJET this morning blasted American Airlines for its new GDS fee (TD yesterday), saying the AA initials could actually stand for ‘Agency Annihilation’.
