Big Fat Road & Rail Wrap
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It’s another Road & Rail wrap! And this one has more than four stories in it! Can you tell we haven’t had many wins lately?
SeaLink launches amazing new food, wine & Kangaroo Island Self Drive Packages
Discover South Australia’s most loved wine regions and one of Australia’s unspoilt treasures – Kangaroo Island, with SeaLink’s new self-drive holiday packages. As a bonus, packages also include a 30-day Entertainment Digital Membership, offering savings of up to 25 per cent and fantastic two-for-one deals at many of South Australia’s top restaurants, attractions and activities.
There are three six-day Self-Drive holiday packages to choose from including the South Australia Food and Wine Getaway, the Barossa and Kangaroo Island package and the Hahndorf, McLaren Vale and Kangaroo Island package.
Helping to save hundreds of dollars, all self-drive packages include the bonus Entertainment Digital Membership. The membership provides hundreds of discounts and two-for-one deals at many restaurants, cafes, art attractions and shopping destinations in Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Barossa and Fleurieu Peninsula. The 30-day membership can be self-activated prior to travel so benefits can be utilised before, after and during holiday packages.
The South Australia Food and Wine Getaway combines coach touring and self-drive and explores the city of Adelaide, the Barossa region on a choice of two food and wine coach tours and Kangaroo Island to discover the Island’s unique local wines and produce, pristine beaches, fascinating wildlife, amazing attractions and spectacular coastal scenery.
itravel goes off the beaten track
The itravel 747 jet is not quite a Boeing. It’s a HR Holden taking on the annual Outback Car Trekand raising funds for The Royal Flying Doctor Service.
itravel has sponsored Team HR-747 for five years running with theevent raisingin excess of $26 million for the RFDS.
The itravel Jet has travelled approximately 3,500 kilometresfrom Tamworth to Airlie Beach.
Rail Plus announces winners of 2019 Rocky Mountaineer Counting Contest
Rail Plus has announced the winners of their 2019 Rocky Mountaineer ‘Count the Wildlife’ contest.
The 14 lucky winners are:
- $500 Gift Card – Ash Nikolaou from Flight Centre Marrickville Metro
- Four $100 Coles/Myer or Countdown Gift Cards – Robyn Hodder-MacNeill from The Travellers Shop in Gympie, Jennie Smith from Flight Centre Takanini (NZ), Kim Adams from Helloworld Horsham and Aslam Bhojani from Travelsmart Papakura (NZ)
- Two Rocky Mountaineer Engineers Hats – Kate Jarmyn from Flight Centre NEXT and Gwyneth Liu from AGL Travel
- Five Rocky Mountaineer Bear Soft Toys – Meg Robinson from italktravel Warners Bay, Gabriella Ingvall from Flight Centre East Victoria Park, Lisa Rose from Zeppelin Travel in Benowa, Andi Forte from Flight Centre Tailor Made Adelaide City and Candice Free from Travel Associates in Geelong West
- Rocky Mountaineer Cookbook – Chelsea Groot from Travel by Wyndham in Bundall
- Rocky Mountaineer Travel Bag – Jamie Farrar-Semak from Flight Centre Gympie
Swiss Travel Pass Superstar Returns!
The highly anticipated annual Swiss Travel Pass SuperStar Program is back and will run from 2 July to 28 September 2018. A joint initiative between the Swiss Travel System and Rail Europe GSAs, the program equips agents with useful information about travelling around Switzerland, the benefits of Swiss Travel Pass as well as the many journeys around the country. Updates on new and improved products are also provided in the program.
Over the course of the three-month program, agents will need to sell as many passes as they can and answer 10 quiz questions in each of the program’s six modules. Agents must get at least six out of the 10 questions correct in order to be eligible to win the monthly prizes.
Certificates will be awarded to agents who successfully complete all modules and register a minimum of 36 points. In each module, agents can win a series of prizes including six Bucherer watches; six Nespresso coffee machines; 12 wine and cheese hampers; and 12 $100 Visa gift cards.
The 10 top performing agents will win a spot on an all-inclusive 7D/6N famil to Switzerland later in the year, courtesy of Switzerland Tourism.
Avis launches new Edinburgh ‘hidden gems’ one-day road trip (Interactive guide-map)
To help discover more of Scotland, Avis Car Hire enlisted Edinburgh based travel blogger Sonja Thomson to explore and discover 10 hidden gems that are one day’s drive away from the capital.
Experiencing Scottish art, food, history and culture, Sonja’s favourite places have been charted out on an interactive guide-map on the Avis Inspires blog. Each destination has an article or video that goes into further detail. Watch it here.
Featured destinations:
- The Helix: Home of the Kelpies (article)
- The Engine Shed, Sterling (article)
- Doune Castle (article)
- Loch Lomond Leisure (article)
- Mhor Bread Bakery (article)
- Glencoe Folk Museum (article)
- Culross Palace (article)
- Made in Sterling Art Store (video)
- Smiddy Farm Shop (video)
- Luss Smokehouse (video)
Rail Plus kicks off World Cup of Great Train Journeys!
In the spirit of the international football championship, Rail Plus has kicked off its very own World Cups Series – the World Cup of Great Train Journeys. The first of its kind, the competition is open to all agents across Australia and New Zealand, where 10 x $15 wine vouchers are up for grabs.
To enter, agents need to fill out this form before heading to Rail Plus’ Facebook page to cast their votes on one of two great train journeys going head-to-head each day for the next 32 days ending 16 July.
The great train journeys up against each other in the preliminary rounds are:
- The Ghan vs Coast Starlight
- TranzAlpine vs Vistadome
- Eastern & Oriental Express vs The Overland
- Rovos Rail vs El Transcantabrico
- Coastal Pacific vs the Blue Train
- Rocky Mountaineer vs Caspian Odyssey
- Belmond Grand Hibernian vs The Silk Road
- Alaskan Railroad vs Golden Eagle Danube Express
- The Canadian vs Belmond British Pullman
- Venice Simplon-Orient-Express vs Sicilian Odyssey
- Belmond Royal Scotsman vs Indian Pacific
- Persian Odyssey vs Belmond Andean Explorer
- Northern Explorer vs Al Andalus
- Belmond Hiram Bingham vs Maharajas’ Express
- Trans-Siberian Express onboard The Golden Eagle vs Grand Train Tour of Switzerland
- Deccan Odyssey vs El Expreso de la Robla
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SAKA Museum recognised in TIME magazine’s World’s Greatest Places 2024
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Journey Beyond launches first brand-led campaign during Paris Olympics
Journey Beyond is pushing the boundaries. On The Ghan, you can't even see them!
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Ascott Australia partners with Hotels for Trees
Hoteliers can take a 'Lyf' out of this book and improve their green credentials.
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Victoria’s TAC Top Tourism Town Award winners for 2024
Keep looking in our own backyard. There are plenty of places to go.
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Uniworld partners with Camilla Franks with Egyptian-inspired collection
We are in de-Nile about making puns combining Crocs and leopard prints, given this luxe partnership.
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Aussies at Paris Olympics anxious about travel risks, with incidents already recorded
Fortunately one of our biggest gold medal hopes still held onto his pedals.
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Banyan Tree Seaview Villas elevates Laguna Lang Co
If you've ever played golf in the tropics, start early. LIke way early. It's hot! Damn hot.
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Silversea taps Barbara Biffi as senior vice president for global sales
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Wendy Wu unveils new Japan travel brochure and itineraries
Get outta town! Off-beat Japan will be a lot less congested we figure than the usual tourist hotspots.
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UK and Europe event organisers look to venues with sustainability integrity, ICC Sydney survey finds
Here in Sydney, you can even eat the table centrepieces. Although we advise they be cooked first.
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Renos Rologas new general manager ANZ for FCM Travel
Two decades in the travel game! Let's hope Renos is in for the long haul at FCM.
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Untamed Escapes to offer Cultural Day Tour from Port Lincoln in partnership with Maba Idi
International visitors travel thousands of kilometres for this experience. Time to share.
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Luxe Finish Line Penthouses offer the best vantage point for the finish of the Sydney-Hobart
Long have we been following the yachts leavings Sydney Harbour and one day, we will see the finish, from this place!
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In a busy world, proximity to nature is the new luxury
Forget Raffles, treat your nearest and dearest to a stay at the local campsite. They'll be super close to nature.
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Circular Quay welcomes new Korean dining experience to Sydney Place
We once took Korean-American chef David Chang around Koreatown, Eastwood. Not happy about driving rain, loved the food.
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MSC Cruises unveils a new outdoor kid-friendly attraction on World America
Drop your kid down the jaws of a shark and they come out 11 decks below. Sounds good to me.
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Amadeus welcomes FCM Travel as new reseller partner of Cytric Easy
Cytric Easy, the travel management tool embedded in Microsoft Teams, is to be integrated into FCM Travel portfolio. Amadeus and FCM Travel have extended their Cytric distribution agreement to include Cytric Easy. With this new agreement, global travel management company FCM Travel, becomes a reseller of the innovative travel management collaboration solution embedded into Microsoft […]
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Australian travellers abandon peer-to-peer stays and gravitate back to big hotels, survey finds
Doom scrolling Airbnb for the best-possible stay options two days out from departure was wearing us down, apparently.
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Quark Expeditions launches the Ultimate Summer in the Arctic sweepstakes for travel advisors
Summer in the Arctic still means it's freezing. But hopefully a winning sweepstakes tickets will warm your cockles.
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‘I bet it smells weird’ – Internet divided over floating restaurant in China
I you are still feeling peckish at the end of your meal, their fish tank is full. But can you eat koi?
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‘Turn up in the Northern Territory this Spring’ campaign deals
Agents and airlines get all hot and sweaty over these enticing deals. Or did someone just turn the air-conditioning up?
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‘Like nothing on earth’: Saudi Arabia’s new Treyam resort set in a Star Wars-style landscape
As long as Jar Jar Binks is not there, we would like a seat at the Mos Eisley Cantina please.
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Raffles Hotels and Resorts is set to open in Tokyo in 2028
Time to get your vision boards at the ready! Raffles is landing in Tokyo!
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‘A true honour’ – Andrew Stark wins Flight Centre Director’s Award for the second time
Congratulations Andrew! If you're a fan of British reality TV you might notice a familiar face.
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Club Med debuts travel agent portal 2.0 with bonus prize for tops sales
See those people by the pool. That could be you. Start selling through the portal people!
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Envoyage announces 2024 Australian Icons and rewards event in the Maldives
We were going to edit our name into the list but we chickened out.
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HIF Global signs collaboration agreement with Airbus on eFuels
We know it's a good thing but can a jet fuel geek out there send in a diagram explaining this please.
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Crystal announces release dates for 2026 itineraries
If you have started collecting 2026 itineraries then here is another one for you.
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Cairns Airport unveils display of support for FNQ youth
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Viking announces six new cruise itineraries
Now's the time to start learning Putonghua, Nihongo and Lhasa. Or maybe even know where these are spoken.
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Join Qatar Airways, Celebrity Cruises & Klook – Showcase Your Brand at Click Frenzy Travel August 2024!
Clicking calmly will also be welcome when it comes to this particular deal. Click calmly here to find out more.
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InsideAsia Tours launches new incentive that doubles agent commission
Double commission! We like the sound of that. Hope their system doesn't crash as a result.
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Push to revive Parramatta’s iconic Roxy Theatre into entertainment destination
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Qatar Airways signs an expansion to Boeing 777-9 aircraft order
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Flight Centre shares down following revised profit guidance
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