Masquerade at Etihad – upper class masks for premium passengers
Forget about the Qantas pyjamas. There's a new aviation status symbol in the front end of the plane at 36,000 feet. And it's called a #snood. In a sign of the times, and precursor of More ...
Accor CEO Sebastien Bazin says business travel down 10% long term
Accor CEO Sebastien Bazin believes business travel will "never return to the new normal" and that in the long term corporate numbers likely sit around 10% less than they were pre-COVID. Short term, until mid-2021, More ...
Virgin ditches Tigerair Australia, cuts workforce, opts for Boeing 737 fleet
Virgin Australia will, under the pending ownership of Bain Capital, cut its workforce from 9000 to 6000, eliminate low cost carrier Tigerair Australia, move to an all-Boeing 737 mainline fleet and shift to a new More ...
Booking.com to restructure business and reduce workforce by 25%
Booking.com, the world's dominant online travel agent, will restructure its business and shed 25% of staff by the end of this year due to the impact of COVID-19. Up 4500 staff could lose their jobs, More ...
Travel agents to close as Victoria enters Stage 4 Restrictions
More permanent travel agency closures appear inevitable after the Victorian government ordered all non-essential retailers to shut their doors from Thursday for six weeks as part of its onerous Stage 4 Restrictions. Victorian Premier Daniel More ...
Superhero sunset on social media rescues Gympie’s daggy reputation
Fabulous story on the ABC website about how the power of celebrity, social media and stunning imagery from the Hemsworth bothers, Liam and Chris, combined to change the focus on the previously daggy Gympie region More ...
Palmy is back baby! Holiday house shortage looms as demand booms
Property managers predict this winter will be the busiest ever for Sydney's northern beaches holiday house market as cooped up Sydneysiders make the area their weekend playground. They also report Christmas bookings are being made More ...
Aircraft a bigger virus risk than cruise ships say consumers
It hardly seems possible, but despite all the adverse publicity about cruising and COVID, travellers across Asia-Pacific except Japan consider flying to be the riskier proposition. More than a third (37%) of respondents to a More ...
Indigenous tourism business model challenged by int’l travel bans
Indigenous tourism - a star performer over the past decade - is among the hardest hit sectors of the Australia's travel industry from COVID border restrictions with a new report revealing its heavy dependence on More ...
Short-term rentals outperform hotels across 27 markets during COVID
Short-term rentals have been much more popular than "traditional hotels" throughout the COVID pandemic, recording significantly higher occupancy rates between March and June, according to the preliminary findings of a joint analysis across 27 global More ...
Domestic air traffic increases at Sydney Airport after hitting rock bottom
Last June 3.4 million passengers either arrived or departed from Sydney Airport, Australia's busiest aviation gateway. This June, that number had collapsed to just 174,000 - a precipitous decline of 95%. Most were domestic travellers: More ...
125 Helloworld franchisees close shop, business raises $50m
Helloworld has revealed that 125 of its franchise travel agencies have closed their shops due to the impact of COVID over the past few months. The Australia and New Zealand retail chain - ASX code More ...