Australian insurance provider TravelCard - launched at lavish and expensive event just two years ago - has announced it is going into hibernation with the business no longer viable due to a lack of demand caused by border closures. According to insurance industry media repeorts, all current policies remain valid More ...

Celebrity couple, comedian Hamish Blake and writer wife Zoe Foster-Blake, have been chosen to front a $7 million Australian domestic tourism campaign launched today.  “Our Holiday Here This Year campaign is all about galvanizing Australians to support their fellow Australians by booking a holiday wherever they can around the country,” More ...

  One of Australia's top cruise agents, Clean Cruising, says 95% of its revenue has gone since COVID and implored Australian governments to stop dithering and make a call on when cruising can resume so they can have emotional and financial clarity. Because at the moment, says Clean Cruising Director, More ...

Travel and other key industries hard-hit by COVID such as hospitality and childcare have been snubbed by the Australian government and Prime Minister Scott Morrison (pictured), a former Managing Director of Tourism Australia, in its delayed annual budget, released last night. They've been left behind to fend for themselves as More ...

Imagine paying $280,000 a year rent for a 100sqm shop after spending $400,000 on a fitout. How the hell do you make any money? The answer is you don't. The above figures are behind the demise of one Sydney travel business in a major northern suburbs shopping centre. No doubt More ...

The Australian Government has announced $150 million regional tourism funding including a $50 million Regional Tourism Recovery marketing fund to help regions reliant on international tourism to attract domestic business, and $100 million for regional tourism infrastructure as part of the Building Better Regions initiative. Federal Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham More ...

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 the business and are now focusing purely domestic travel, a move that has won favour More ...

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 operator Village Roadshow. Like so many travel companies, TripADeal, which describes itself as an "online More ...

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 agents and minimum $10,000 packages to brick-and-mortar businesses. To qualify, travel agents must have an More ...

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 of all state and territory borders and associated travel restrictions, relevant information on transport, hotels More ...

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 Experience Week 2020 - themed “Travel Zero.O: Back To The Future”  - will be 100% More ...

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 it Hipcamp Australia and introduced a controversial customer service free that can exceed 20 percent. More ...

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 since the company was forced to re-evaluate its business in the wake of COVID-19. Co-founder More ...

Prospects of a vaccine have sent Australian travel stocks soaring by up to 50% over the past month and a leading fund manager believes they have plenty more headroom despite recent dismal financial results and dire short-term prospects. Corporate Travel Management (CTD) and Webjet (WEB) led the pack with share More ...

Sleepy St. Arnaud, population 2619, is now part of the ‘Silo Art Trail’ in western Victoria thanks to a huge new artwork called ‘Hope’ spanning two grain silos on the outskirts of town. Created by local artist Kyle Torney, the painting depicts the human history of St. Arnaud, originally a More ...

Major Australian travel retailer Helloworld (ASX: HLO) says it paid out out more than $800 million in full or partial refunds to customers from its corporate, wholesale and ticketing businesses in Australia and New Zealand up to June 30, 2020, due to the impact of COVId-19 on travel. It says More ...