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Australia's 'Best Jobs' finalists arrive Down Under

SYDNEY, Australia - After a tough contest involving more than 600,000 applicants worldwide, the 18 finalists in the running for Tourism Australia's 'Best Jobs in the World' have finally arrived in ...

Opening Series of 2014 Major League Baseball

Sydney wins Major League Baseball

SYDNEY, Australia - Sydney will host the Opening Series of 2014 Major League Baseball, at the Sydney Cricket Ground, between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Chinese visitors to Australia overtake British numbers

Chinese tourism to Australia up 17 percent

MELBOURNE, Australia - More Chinese tourists than British are visiting Australia despite strong Australian dollar.

Guam Wins Awards at Korea World Travel Fair

Korean visitor arrivals to Guam up 45 percent

TUMON, Guam - Calendar year 2012 proved to be a record-breaking year for arrivals to Guam. The island welcomed over 1.3 million visitors, a level not seen since the mid to late 1990s.

Golf Tourism In New Zealand

Tourism New Zealand hopes golf will attract higher spending visitors

Tourism New Zealand is hoping to double the number of international tourists who come here to play golf as part of a new strategy to attract higher spending visitors.

Building a New Zealand-based zombie tourism company

Auckland about to face zombie tourism

Raising money to raise the dead is the aim of a trio of Australians intent on building a New Zealand-based zombie tourism company.

'Best Jobs in the World' contest

Australia's 'Best Jobs' finalists get ready for 'Show Time'

SYDNEY, Australia - The 18 finalists for Tourism Australia's 'Best Jobs in the World' – three for each of the six dream jobs – have been chosen and will travel Down Under next month to spend a ...

launches new official tourism website

Tourism Fiji registers travel domain of Fiji.travel

The .travel top level domain registry is pleased to announce that Tourism Fiji, the official travel and tourism agency of the government of Fiji, has registered the name Fiji.travel and has now ...

The Global Professionals on the Move 2013 report

Australia holds its appeal as top world destination for professionals to work

SYDNEY, Australia - Australia is the third most desired place for professionals to relocate to, says a new report, despite economic challenges and the current high exchange rate making it ...

What happened to the missing cruise passengers?

Authorities call off search for two missing cruise ship passengers

SYDNEY, Australia - After scouring hundreds of miles of waters off Australia's coast, authorities on Friday called off a search for two cruise ship passengers who are believed to have fallen ...

Two Carnival Spirit passengers believed to have fallen overboard

Authorities call off search for two missing cruise ship passengers

After scouring hundreds of miles of waters off Australia's coast, authorities on Friday called off a search for two cruise ship passengers who are believed to have fallen overboard.

Hotel deals from Agoda.com

Make plans to attend the Vivid Sydney Light, Music & Idea Festival

SINGAPORE – Agoda.com, Asia’s leading hotel booking site and part of Nasdaq-listed Priceline Group (Nasdaq:PCLN), is illuminating great deals on hotels in Sydney, Australia for the annual ...

Boeing 787-9

Major milestone for Air New Zealand's Boeing 787-9 program

The first of Air New Zealand's Boeing 787-9 aircraft to be constructed has achieved a major milestone this week with the arrival of the first major part of the new aircraft at Boeing's Everett ...

Fiji government accused of human and workers' rights abuses

New campaign aims to debunk idea that Fiji is a tropical paradise

Workers in Fiji are targeting tourists with a campaign that aims to debunk the idea that the country is a tropical paradise.

Virgin Australia Regional Airlines

Virgin Australia launches new regional carrier

Following the successful acquisition of Skywest Airlines last month, Virgin Founder Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Australia CEO John Borghetti have officially launched Virgin Australia Regional ...

Airlines squeeze every last dollar out of customers

Airline surcharges rivalling the cost of fares

SYDNEY, Australia - On Friday, Jetstar was levying an $8.50 ''booking and service fee'' per leg on $9 flights bought with Visa, Mastercard, Diners or American Express cards.

Fox Glacier tragedy

Father of UK tourist killed in plane crash blasts New Zealand's tourism safety record

The father of a British man killed in the Fox Glacier tragedy says the Government has failed to improve the safety of adventure tourism and New Zealand remains "more dangerous than it should ...

Chinese tourism to Australia

Australian tourism operators partnering with Chinese brands to become ' China Ready'

SYDNEY, Australia - A radical reshaping is taking place in Australia's lucrative tourism market, with tourism operators partnering with leading Chinese brands in an attempt to become ' China ...

Tourism New Zealand

New Zealand's March tourist numbers highest ever recorded

New Zealand's tourist numbers are up, thanks in part to an early Easter, the England cricket team's tour of the country and marketing campaigns centred on the release of The Hobbit.

NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell and Qantas Group Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce

Qantas enters in major tourism and major events marketing partnership

Australia's NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell and Qantas Group Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce signed the three- year agreement at Qantas’ facilities at Sydney Airport today, marking the largest ...

New Zealand Tourism

New Zealand tourism chiefs vow to "hunt as a pack"

AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Tourism leaders will "hunt as a pack" to bring extra visitors to the country, Tourism Industry Association chief executive Martin Snedden said today.

New Zealand to target high-end tourists

New Zealand PM announces $158 million tourism package

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key says a $158 million tourism package mainly for marketing overseas will need to be matched by new infrastructure - including convention centres - if the plan is ...

Melbourne Conference Center

BestCities visits Australia’s best city for conferences

Melbourne has received a glowing report card from executives representing international conferences following the BestCities Client Workshop 2013, held from 9 – 12 April, hosted by the Melbourne ...

Chinese Tourism To New Zealand

Credit card spending by Chinese in New Zealand up by almost a third

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Credit card spending by Chinese visitors in New Zealand last year was up by almost a third from its 2011 level, offsetting declining spending by tourists from other ...

International Air Transport Association (IATA) revised forecast

Pacific Islands Regional airlines will lead the world in profit hikes

Airlines from the Pacific along with some Asian carriers will lead the world in profit hikes in 2013, the global International Air Transport Association (IATA) revised forecast shows.

South Pacific Kribati travel & tourism

The forgotten country Kiribati: Sinking under a sea of humanity

Four and a half years ago, as I drive down the one single road that connects the line of thin, long atolls in Tarawa, Kiribati – a country that’s tipped to be consumed by the ocean because of ...

China Outbound Travel Market Symposium

Guam tourism prepares for increase of Chinese visitors

TUMON, Guam – Arrivals from China to Guam rose from 7,068 to 8,939 – a significant increase of 26.5% compared to CY2011.

WTTC summit concluded Australia has worst airline taxation

Australia has world's worst travel tax

Australia’s exorbitant tax on international travel, the passenger movement charge (PMC), has put the country in the global spotlight this week for all the wrong reasons, according to the ...

Annoyed Passenger Tames Tiger Airways

Irked student takes on budget carrier via Facebook and wins

MELBOURNE, Australia - Nathaniel Martin took to Facebook to vent his frustrations after Tiger Airways bumped him from his flight from Hobart to Melbourne on Sunday, telling him it had been ...

Selling faked goods to tourists brings hefty fines

New Zealand cracks down on sale of fake goods to tourists

Two New Zealand companies run by a father and son have been slapped with big fines after selling faked goods that cost little to produce to tourists for thousands of dollars.

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