Start planning your local travel itineraries, because the travel trend overlords at Lonely Planet have just released their picks for the year.

With restrictions changing more frequently most people change their knickers, we’ve rounded up everything you need to know right here.

With overseas trips well and truly back on the agenda, the well-travelled folk over at Lonely Planet have unveiled their top picks for destinations next year.

The French hotel chain has been busy this past week, opening the doors of a slick new Mercure across the ditch and new retreat in South Australia.

A Cook Islander has managed to travel to Perth without quarantining, while two travellers from Port Moresby wandered into Brisbane Airport’s common area before testing positive for COVID-19.

It was a day of firsts for Greg Foran last Friday, who popped his international flight cherry with Air NZ and put the new IATA Travel Pass app through its paces.

This agent scored one of only 70 spots on Air NZ’s first flight in a generation between the two cities. Jealous much?

The budget carrier has embraced its inner-Banksy to create this latest promo campaign.

Travel Weekly staff have had similar problems at Friday knock-off drinks, but concede that threatening to blow up a plane is more serious than peeing in a pot plant.

Australia and NZ are teaming up to host the next FIFA Women’s World Cup, so we’re assuming stadiums will serve a combination of meat pies and kiwi fruit to the masses.

The Kiwi carrier has added Tasmania to its repertoire, but there’s a catch.

Judith Collins has called for NZ to lift its ban on Aussie travellers for the sake of the country’s tourism industry, a sentiment that was echoed by our very own ScoMo shortly after.