News
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Starwood’s 1000th
Tuesday | Jun 1 2010THE Sheraton Quandao Lake Resorts in China opened yesterday, making it the 1000th hotel in the Starwood Hotel and Resorts Worldwide portfolio.
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CZ lifts Australia
Tuesday | Jun 1 2010CHINA Southern Airlines has announced an expansion of its flights into Australia, including moving its Sydney services to double daily from 31 Oct, as well as the 01 Nov debut of flights to Brisbane.
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BA boosts c’share
Tuesday | Jun 1 2010BRITISH Airways will expand its codeshare operations within Australasia, as part of the pact with QF which saw six new European destinations added to the QF/BA pact (TD yesterday).
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Accor reports recovery
Tuesday | Jun 1 2010HOTEL group Accor Asia Pacific says a combination of strong demand and a lack of new hotel rooms coming onto the market is likely to see room rates in Australia increase this year.
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NZ cruise cost cut
Tuesday | Jun 1 2010THE NZ government has more than halved its marine safety levies on cruise passengers, which will reduce from NZ$8.29 to just $3.30 from 01 Oct – in time for the next cruise season.
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Window Seat 01 June 10
Tuesday | Jun 1 2010WARN your clients not to be too concerned if they see things hotting up at Sydney Airport over the next few weeks.
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Travel Daily on location in Adelaide
Tuesday | Jun 1 2010THE new TA ad campaign (TD yesterday) is all the talk of ATE today, with the promotion for the first time allowing free use by the travel trade of the ‘There’s nothing like Australia’ branding.
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Jetstar iPad trial
Tuesday | Jun 1 2010JETSTAR will become the first airline in the world to try out the funky new Apple iPad as an in-flight entertainment option.
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STA closures
Tuesday | Jun 1 2010STA Travel has closed six of its Australian branches, according to an update from the Travel Compensation Fund this morning.
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Giant response to TA ad
Tuesday | Jun 1 2010THE copy of the new Tourism Australia TV commercial which was loaded onto the Travel Daily TV website (TD yesterday) has attracted about a thousand views and many comments in the last 18 hours since it went online.
