Destinations
Tourism Minister announces Australia’s top 20 beaches
Tourism Australia has teamed up with a “beach expert” to rank this year’s best Aussie beaches and we don’t know what a “beach expert” is, but we assume it involves a portable sunbathing chair and beach umbrella.
Events
Step Back in Time These School Holidays With Dinosaur Valley at Scenic World
by Amy Shapiro
You’re in for a roaring good time this summer with this all-ages, Jurassic adventure! Sadly no word of Jeff Goldblum… yet.
Destinations
Victoria reopens to fully-vaxxed travellers from Sydney, WA to allow quarantine-free travel for Queenslanders
Here are a couple more positive signs that domestic travel is getting back to the good old days.
Destinations
Victoria downgrades ‘red zones’ for Queensland and parts of Sydney, as other states make border moves
by Huntley Mitchell
The colour of Victoria’s ‘traffic lights’ have changed for certain travellers. However, that’s not an invite for them to drag race their way into the state.
Destinations
Famous Blue Mountains ‘Penis Cairn’ transformed into “a pair of ridiculously round boobies”
In case you’ve been keeping track, yes, we can confirm this is the second time in a month that we have run a phallic image to accompany our lead story, which we think encapsulates 2020 quite well.
Aviation
Australia’s newest airline takes off
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s … yep, it’s a plane! A seaplane from Australia’s newest airline to be exact, which promises to shave HOURS off flights between Sydney and Canberra.
Destinations
Popular NSW tourist attractions make the cut on The Bachelorette Australia
Did you watch The Bachelorette this week and notice it had a bit of a touristy feel? Confirm that feeling right here.
Destinations
Destination Wrap: Northern Territory reopening, Tahiti Tourisme’s global campaign + MORE
Like Cadbury’s Top Deck chocolate, this week’s Destination Wrap comes in two delicious layers, with domestic on the top and international on the bottom.
Destinations
Tourism
Sculpture at Scenic World returns for eighth year
Travel Weekly’s editor would’ve missed a media-only showing of this exhibition last week if it wasn’t for his Peter Brock-like driving up the Blue Mountains.
Tourism
The last-minute long weekend staycations you didn’t know you needed
We’ll be spending our long-weekend the same way we spend every day off: under a pile of blankets, watching Netflix shows with a bottle of wine.
Destinations
Bali’s Mount Agung: What we know
Bali is feeling the full force of Mount Agung, with the eruption of the volcano intensifying tenfold over the weekend.
Wholesalers
Big Fat Wholesaler Wrap
by Amy Bryant
We got the workie to put this together this morning while we downed four cups of coffee and tried to wake up. Don’t you just love Mondays?