Evan Petrelis, Renaissance Man, positive about domestic switch
Evan Petrelis is the renaissance man of Australian travel - pun intended. Petrelis and his team at Renaissance Tours, which has been running high-end guided trips to the world's cultural capitals since 1997, have flipped More ...
One way the only way for more travellers, says Skyscanner report
Booking lead times contracting, domestic travel up, more one-way flights being booked as people return home for extended periods or want to escape a bad situation. These are the three major aviation trends revealed in More ...
Accor Pacific fires verbal salvo in Queensland’s COVID border war
Accor Pacific, Australia's largest hotel operator, says Queensland hotels will run at 30% occupancy for months and some may be forced to close unless the Queensland government sets a border reopening date. "This is not More ...
TripADeal founders cede control, sell majority stake to private equity
TripADeal founders Richard Johnston and Norm Black (pictured) have ceded control of the business they founded in 2011, selling 55% of the company to BGH Capital, which is in the process of buying theme park More ...
Virgin, Airbnb talk redundancies – should have done it sooner says Scurrah
Virgin Australia CEO Paul Scurrah says he regrets not providing certainty to employees the airline stood down for months - many of them without pay - by making them redundant sooner. Scurrah said in an More ...
West Australian govt funds $3m support package for travel agents
The West Australian government today announced a $3 million support package for the state's travel agents, whose businesses have been decimated by COVID travel restrictions. It will provide packages of up to $5,000 to home-based More ...
New COVID travel portal from Tourism Australia
Travellers can now access a new COVID travel web resource from Tourism Australia. The ‘Australian COVID Travel Portal' aggregates key safety information, travel restrictions and guidelines from every state and territory. It includes current status More ...
Back to to the future at Web in Travel Singapore 2020
Web in Travel Singapore is heading back to the future in a very modern way when the 15th edition of the event returns from September 28 to October 1. The first three days of WiT More ...
Not so happy campers as new Youcamp owner Hipcamp levies hefty service fees
Youcamp, which pioneered the concept of camping on private land in Australia, has been sold to US company Hipcamp, which in rapid succession has closed the site, migrated its content to the parent portal, rebranded More ...
Rydges hotel central to Melbourne’s COIVID crisis sells for $35m
Rydges on Swanston, the hotel central to Victoria's second COVID wave, has sold for a reported $35 million. Selling agent Colliers International says: "The strong buyer response was due to the property’s prime location, development More ...
It’s terminal, Tigerair Australia shut down for good by Virgin Australia
Virgin Australia (VAH) has finally killed off its low-cost carrier Tigerair Australia, according to multiple media reports. The carrier, which has been grounded since late April, was originally going to be mothballed by VAH and More ...
Radical Travello pivot nets social media gold, doubles followers to 3m
A radical pivot for travel networking and experiences app Travello has seen the company's Facebook followers double to 3 million, while downloads have grown dramatically to reach more than one million in just five months More ...