Tumbarumba - a sleepy timber, grape growing and grazing town in the bucolic Snowy Valleys of NSW - is undergoing a quiet tourism revolution. It's all down  to a new 'rail trail' that's attracted more than 12,000 riders since a low-key opening during peak-COVID last April. Now other towns in More ...

How much do travel agents earn? The answer for many is hardly anything at all. And that was before COVID decimated the industry, reliant as it is on international travel. This hard fact has been underscored by industry group AFTA, which now says the $128 million Federal Government assistance package More ...

As scenic drives go, the 836km between Sydney and Melbourne along the Hume Highway is, for many people, exciting as a TV test pattern. The sprawling country between Australia's two largest cities is always dry and the weather hot, with a midday glare that somehow lasts for hours. More ...

After a tough year in which demand slumped through COVID by up to 90 per cent, Hertz Asia Pacific boss Eoin MacNeill (pictured) says demand is bouncing back with the car hire giant starting to rebuild its fleet after cutting it by almost 40 per cent during the height of More ...

Australian travel agents with turnover between $50,000 and $20 million will receive grants ranging from $1500 to $100,000, the Federal Government has announced. Federal Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham (pictured) said: “This one off payment recognises that travel agents are operating in an exceptional set of circumstances where most are having More ...

Retail group Helloworld has doubled down on cruising - which it doesn't expect to rebound from COVID until 2022 - purchasing  privately owned Australian wholesaler CruiseCo for an undisclosed amount from existing cash reserves. CruiseCo had annual total turnover of $70 million before COVID hit and will complement Helloworld's existing More ...

Victorians are being urged by their State Government to keep their tourism spend local after travel restrictions were recently lifted. This is the focus of a new multi-million dollar campaign from Visit Victoria with the tagline "Stay close, go further" that will be rolled out over the next few weeks. More ...

Australian Federation of Travel Agents CEO Darren Rudd appears to have awkwardly misjudged the political climate by prematurely announcing a funding package that has yet to eventuate following a conversation with Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Rudd, pictured, who had asked the Federal Government for $250 million emergency funding over 18 More ...

Travel networking and experience app Travello has bought the Backpacker Deals website and business for a mix of cash and shares. Travello claims the deal will create Australia's largest 'experience based, youth focused' Online Travel Agent.  “Backpacker Deals is a market leader in the youth vertical and they’ve built some More ...

Corporate travel will lead the recovery at Flight Centre with a chance it could profitable by the middle of next year. But leisure revenue for the group has a much longer runway back due to the bulk of earnings coming from international tourism. Here are the key takeaways from the More ...

Webjet Managing Director John Gusicic (pictured) says cash is flowing back through the business after six months from hell, a period when travel demand collapsed, forcing it to slash costs by 50 percent, including significant staff redundancies, while raising around $500m to stay afloat. Good times. Not. But in a More ...

Nowhere in Australia had a greater proportion of international tourists than far north Queensland pre-COVID. The iconic tourism hubs of Cairns and Port Douglas were packed with big spending Chinese, Japanese, European and American tourists through to March this year. But international border closures have meant zero inbound business over More ...