Cooking Oil Tours
A New Zealand tour company is claiming a world first with a tourist bus that runs on used cooking oil.
Stray, a "hop-on-hop-off" bus network aimed at the backpacker market, has launched the ...
NZ Tourism Minister: Let's Make The Tourists Pay
An unofficial proposal by the Tourism Minister to charge international visitors a "green tax" has already received the cold shoulder from the industry.
Damien O'Connor is understood to have ...
Green Australia
By Sue Papadoulis
Luxurious outback station retreat in Central NSW committed to environmental sustainability
Stretching across 12,000 acres of Lachlan River Country, Burrawang West Station’s fully ...
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Maui's Campaign Helps Prevent Cigarette Butt Litter
By eTN
MAUI, Hawaii - Maui, rated as "Best Island in the World" by the readers of Conde Nast Traveler for 13 years, is working to keep its beaches beautiful, through a "Butts off the Beach" awareness ...
Australia
Every second Australian holiday is planned using the web, although some travellers still baulk at paying over the internet, new figures show.
Research conducted by Tourism Research ...
New Zealand
The classic New Zealand Wine Trail is gaining international traction, popping up in more itineraries as the regional venture cements itself as a popular travel option.
Tracy Johnston, ...
New Zealand
New Zealand's tourism industry is preparing for a drop in visits from Britain and the United States.
The New Zealand Herald says the industry fears the effects of the financial crisis in ...
Fuel Prices
By Christine Khan
SYDNEY, Australia (eTN) - Air Pacific has announced in a press release that it will increase its fares from Australia to Fiji by approximately five per cent for tickets issued from June 11, ...
$15 Billion Venture
The ripple effect created by the government’s biggest tourism-development project, the Bagong Nayong Pilipino-Manila Bay Tourism City, would extend beyond the local hospitality industry and long ...
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Israeli "Stripper" Tourist Locked Up
A female Israeli tourist who stripped naked last week after being offended by road workers' wolf-whistles has been admitted to a mental health unit for allegedly assaulting a bar ...
Qantas
Australia's biggest airline, Qantas, is cutting jobs and reducing services in response to spiralling fuel costs.
Qantas says its fuel bill will jump by more than two-billion dollars next ...
Tourism New Zealand
Tourism New Zealand has tweaked its marketing mix to reflect the increasing reality of economic factors that are affecting tourism markets.
Chief executive George Hickton said it had all ...
Australia: Have Planes, Pilots Needed
The Australian airline Jetstar is preparing to employ 75 foreign pilots under the federal government's temporary skilled migration visa.
Jetstar's general manager of corporate relations, ...
Oy Wey...
Wellington, New Zealand - An Israeli tourist who felt harassed when New Zealand road workers whistled at her Thursday stripped naked in response, police said.
Workmen in the small northern ...
Air Pacific Review
A Fiji cabinet task force will oversee a comprehensive review of the operations of national airline, Air Pacific.
A statement on the Fiji government website says government concern about ...
Expedia
By Christine Khan
SYDNEY, Australia (eTN) - Fiji’s Air Pacific has joined forces with the world’s largest online travel provider, Expedia, to launch Air Pacific Holidays.
Australia
The South Australian government says South Australian travellers could hurt the local tourism industry if they fail to choose direct flights overseas.
Orion Expedition Cruises
KSL Capital Partners (KSL), a leading private equity firm, today announced that it has acquired Orion Expedition Cruises (Orion), the premier luxury expedition cruise line serving pristine ...
New Zealand Arrivals Down
An early Easter is being blamed for the biggest fall in visitor arrivals seen since July 2005.
On a seasonally adjusted basis arrivals dropped by 11.8 per cent between March and April and ...
Two British tourists have been arrested after allegedly making false complaints about getting bashed and robbed in Queenstown on Saturday night.
Constable Sean Drader of the Queenstown ...
Lack Of Visitor Knowledge Prompts Tas Tourism Re-think
The Tasmanian Government will change its marketing strategy after discovering tourists don't know much about the state's attractions.
Tourism Tasmania will promote the state in five zones: ...
International Cruise Council Australasia
The growing popularity of cruising among New Zealanders has been confirmed by new industry statistics that show more than 30,000 Kiwis took a cruise holiday last year.
The figures, compiled ...
Australian Tourism Export Council
ATEC managing director Matthew Hingerty said raising the departure tax and increasing visa-processing fees illustrated the government's intention to "milk" the industry.
Australian Tourism In Need Of Help
The Australian tourism industry will be a primary beneficiary of an effort to clear a backlog of applications for temporary skilled migration visas by next month.
Fiji - Safe Or Not?
Fiji's self-appointed Prime Minister has moved to allay fears that tourists in the country are at risk, after an Australian couple was tied up and robbed aboard their boat.
Gold Coast ...
Australia
Stones taken from Australia’s Ayers Rock have been returned to the desert monolith’s Aboriginal custodians by tourists who believe they are cursed.
Hundreds of visitors who casually ...
Audio interview
By Sandy Dhuyvetter, Travel Talk Radio
Join TravelTalkRADIO host Sandy Dhuyvetter as she speaks with Jonathon Day, a regional director for Queensland Australia tourism and a professor of hospitality at Purdue University. Jonathon, who ...
Fiji
EVERYONE needs to learn where the Pacific stands in the world of tourism, says South Pacific Travel chief executive Tony Everitt.
He said participants attending the South Pacific Travel and ...
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Australia Tourism: M&C Out Of Tourism Race
The agency behind the "Where the bloody hell are you?" ads, M&C Saatchi, has been knocked out of the race to retain the creative advertising account for Tourism Australia, which is expected to ...
Fiji
THE number of attacks and crimes committed on tourists while holidaying in this country has doubled in the past two years.
Police spokeswoman Ema Mua said the number of tourists attacked or ...
