News in Brief: Wednesday July 3

News in Brief: Wednesday July 3
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Silversea has launched a new brochure featuring voyages in Asia Pacific in 2013 and 2014.

Highlights, according to the cruise line, are two cruises on Silver Shadow; a 40-day Shores of the Orient and Australasia voyage which departs Hong Kong for Auckland on November 25 and a 24-day Old Asia and Myanmar Mystique cruise which departs Bali for Singapore on February 3.

 

China Southern's first Australian employee and who was credited with helping to start services to Sydney just after the 2000 Olympic Games, has retired.

Frank Gyzemyter joined the carrier in 1997 with a brief to establish flights to Brisbane. The Asia financial crisis put paid to those plans but Gyzemyter was re-hired three years later when Sydney came on line.

 

Helen Wongs Tours has cut prices by up to $600 per couple on selected group trips to Vietnam and China. The savings are valid on packages where flights are provided by Cathay Pacific.

The starting price of a 12-day China Discovery itinerary is now $3690 per person twin share while a 12-day Glimpses of Vietnam itinerary is $3200.

Both deals apply for bookings paid in full by August 30 for travel between February 1 and April 30 in China and from February 1 until March 30 in Vietnam.

 

Insurance firm SureSave has warned travellers of the risk of theft on aircraft after revealing that of all the claims relating to carry-on luggage received over the past six years, 21% concern theft.

 

 

 

 

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