Australia & Pacific
Tourism body failed to assess campaign
By smh.com.au The national auditor has criticised Tourism Australia's handling of potential conflict of interest among board members, and for spending $184 million on the Where The Bloody Hell Are You?
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And Celebrates 10th Birthday
By eTN (August 6, 2008) - After being compulsorily “timed out” of the New Zealand Travel Industry Awards for three years – after winning the ‘Best Hotel’ award three years in succession from 2002 t
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Qantas jet makes emergency landing in Sydney
By news.yahoo.com SYDNEY, Australia - Australia's aviation agency launched a review of Qantas Airways' safety standards Sunday after a Manila-bound jetliner spraying hydraulic fuel made the airline's third high-profile
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AirAsia X diet: charge them!
By foxnews.com A travel magazine reported Monday that Australian airline AirAsia X is considering charging passengers by the pound in a bid to fight rising fuel prices and to "help Aussies lose weight."
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New Zealand: to tax or not to tax?
By nzherald.co.nz Funding has finally been approved for the Government's much talked about tourism strategy but the difficulty in getting it passed has highlighted key financing issues for the industry.
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Qantas
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press Writer CANBERRA, Australia — Australian airline Qantas will preserve its track record of never losing a jet plane in an accident by repairing a gaping hole in the side of a jetliner caused by an exploding
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Staging Connection
By eTN Gearhouse Staging Connections, the Dubai based business partnership between the Staging Connections Group Limited and locally based shareholders, has been successful in acquiring the Venue Event Servi
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Biggest Global Marketing Push In Decades
By eTN LOS ANGELES, CA - Internationally-renowned writer, producer and director Baz Luhrmann will conceive and produce a special international campaign for Tourism Australia.
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Significant Growth Expected In Australian Online Travel Market
By eTN SYDNEY - With significant growth expected in the Australian online travel market and a 30% increase in Australian traffic since its relaunch from Bezurk in May, Asia’s fastest-growing travel search
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Qantas
In a touch of irony, information systems provider Unisys released a survey on Friday showing Qantas was among the world's most trusted airlines.
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Alliance Will Bring Unprecedented Strength To State's Campaign To Win More Events
By eTN New South Wales is forecasting a significant hike in its share of the international business events market, following a new partnership between the State's two major event bodies, Events New South Wal
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Travel And Leisure Award
By eTN Benchmark Hospitality’s Turtle Bay Resort, located on the North Shore of Oahu, has been named to Travel + Leisure magazine’s list of the “Top 25 Hotels in Hawaii” for 2008, as ranked by the pu
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Australia
Frenchman who had been in Australia for only a month has been found dead in a Sydney prison cell, after being locked up during last week's World Youth Day for allegedly exposing himself to a pilgrim.
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August 7 -8 At Hawaii Convention Center
By eTN HONOLULU – The Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA), the state’s tourism agency, is pleased to announce that the fifth annual Hawaii Tourism Conference will be held on August 7-8, 2008 at the Hawaii Con
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To Offset Increases In Cost Of Fuel
By eTN HONOLULU, Hawaii - go!
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Crocosaurus Cove
A new Australian theme park hopes to lure tourists into their "Cage of Death" for a close encounter with an 18-foot crocodile, the Northern Territory News reported.
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Medical tourism
Americans requiring complex surgery will be able to have operations in New Zealand after the launch of a Kiwi medical tourism company.
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Canada Figures Show Record Growth
By eTN As Tourism Australia today announced Daryl Hudson as the new manager of its Canada office based in Toronto, tourism figures just in, show Canada arrivals to Australia are up by 13% compared to 2007/08
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Opening Of HawaiiGaga.com
By eTN Pretorius & McGrath, Ltd. today announced the opening of HawaiiGaga.com, the world's first search engine designed specifically for Hawaii vacation rentals.
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air new zealand - desperate times and desperate measures
Air New Zealand has frozen salaries of senior executives, halted bonus payments and is considering slashing jobs to compensate for soaring fuel costs and sliding passenger demand, according to an inte
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Acquisition Of Integra To Widen Group’s Asia-Pacific Network
By eTN AVIAREPS is expanding into Australia to further strengthen the group’s Asia-Pacific network.
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Australia
The federal government is aiming to rid the tourism industry of "shonky operators" with a new accreditation scheme.
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Fiji
Fiji could become one of the world's top destinations for cruising yachts, says a leading figure in the international yachting industry.
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Australia
SYDNEY is staging a comeback, moving up a place in the ranks of the most popular cities to visit, an influential survey of international travellers shows.
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FIJI
LOCATED on the western side of Viti Levu, Lautoka is ideally known for its reliance on the sugar industry.
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THE RUDD government is facing fresh calls from Singapore Airlines for a more liberal aviation policy
Singapore Airlines, in a submission to the government's National Aviation Policy Green Paper, said it believes the international air services policies of past governments have "not adequately balanced
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would you be so kind and come to australia please
Australians are generally not averse to ruffling a few feathers but it seems Tourism Australia has finally decided it's time to draw a line under the "where the bloody hell are you?" incident.
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Pilots buying their time
The aircraft operator involved in a crash that killed 15 people let inexperienced pilots fly passenger flights unpaid to clock up flying time, a Senate inquiry has been told.
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Record Number Heading For The Big Island
By eTN A record number of Women’s International Travel Industry Alliance (WITIA) members have registered so far for the September ‘Hawaii Educational’ which will provide a much needed boost in confiden
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Government Credits Reputation For Pristine Environment
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The government credited New Zealand's reputation for having a pristine environment for the nearly 5 percent rise in tourism revenue for the year through March 2007 reaching a
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