Travel Agents
Travel to make full recovery before end of 2024, says Virtuoso’s Fiona Dalton
Dalton hosted media at Crown Sydney this morning to celebrate Matthew Upchurch’s return to Aus. Our roving journalist managed to take down this story in between courses.
Travel Agents
TravelManagers to party like its 2019 with first national conference since COVID
As TravelManager’s GM puts it, this coveted event is like a “slightly rowdy family reunion”, so get ready to explain to your distant aunt why you’re not married yet over mum’s inedible egg salad.
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Hawai‘i Tourism Oceania bring agents together to celebrate ‘Month of Lei’
We are also celebrating the Month of Lei by purchasing a plastic one from the $2 shop and forcing the office dog to wear it when we take her for walks.
Travel Agents
“We’re seeing a reverse of the direct booking trend”: SA Tourism acting CEO talks agents role in Africa’s return
by Nancy Hromin
South African Tourism’s Themba Khumalo shares how the African continent can excite the international market and how travel agents will play a key role.
Travel Agents
Helloworld reports 60 per cent improvement in turnover, appoints new CFO
Things are looking up for travel agents if this fresh spattering of financial results is anything to go by.
Travel Agents
AFTA farewells industry legend
AFTA’s former CEO, John Dart, passed away at the age of 90. He was the Federation’s CEO for 10 years in the late 80’s and early 90’s.
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TravelManagers host first round of face-to-face state meetings in two years
The home-based agency’s personal travel managers have been busy cutting a rug (and various cakes!) at their first spate of grand get-togethers and we’ve got the photos to prove it!
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“I’d like to help”: Shadow tourism minister throws support behind travel agents
Gird your loins because Scomo has set a date and the pollies are pounding the pavement to shake as many hands and kiss as many babies as humanely possible.
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Flight Centre reveals story behind ‘bobblehead Tom’ after ad roasted online
The travel agency is being trolled online for what appears to be a glaring error in one of its ads, but the crafty folk at Flight Centre are determined to have the last laugh.
Travel Agents
Agents to play a big role coming out of the pandemic, according to News Corp’s 1H23 travel forecast
News Corp’s biannual travel forecast feels very outshined by its older brother that get’s reported on everyday, the weather forecast.
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Agents take on Singapore as restrictions drop for vaccinated travellers
This dynamic duo from TravelManagers gave the Lion City a test run ahead of its grand reopening. Read their verdict here.
Travel Agents
Virtuoso hosts 2022 Symposium onboard Silversea’s newest luxe liner
More than 300 of the industry’s biggest wigs set sail for the luxury network’s event of the year. We would love to have been flies on the wall if we didn’t assume all insects would be swatted on sight.