Tourism
June 21, 2006
Weekly website hits jump 71% since late Feb launch Scott Morrison of Tourism Australia says: (People) are seeing it and they are responding to it and are doing so in every single country where we are running it……Website visitations in […]
June 20, 2006
Lonely Planet poll puts Australia number one again in UK Young travellers in the UK have voted Australia the country they most want to visit next, moving up from third place last year and now ahead of the US, Thailand, […]
June 14, 2006
‘Connect Event’ June 20th in Doncaster, Vic. John Kirkhope had a dream. He had been working for Dunlop for some years when he realised that he had to go out on his own to make his dream come true. He […]
June 14, 2006
Up-to-date info on the cotton nappies vs disposables debate An extensive Royal Women’s Hospital (RWH) online article offers parents and health workers accurate and current information about nappies in order to enable decision making based on fact rather than marketing […]
June 14, 2006
Beechworth’s struggle – you can help Beechworth Chamber of Commerce, Beechworth residents and visitors and Indigo Shire are working together to try to get Australia Post to reconsider their decision to convert the local postal service from a corporate Australia […]
May 30, 2006
Have you taken the plunge & rented out the beloved holiday house? It’s hard……deciding you need the rent money more than you need your retreat and that wonderful ‘away from it all’ feeling! Much as she hates to give it […]
May 30, 2006
RACV calls for better coordination of transport services in rural areas The recently released RACV report – referred to by Peter McMahon in his comments on attracting Greyhound Coaches back to the East Coast route – found that older non-drivers […]
May 17, 2006
A change in thinking to save winemakers going broke? Deloitte Australia’s 2005 wine industry survey shows 40% of wineries are losing money and export prices have fallen 33% in the past four years.“Given the maturity of the industry, real structural […]
May 16, 2006
Thousands need to take annual holidays! Australians have 70 million annual leave days or 14 million weeks stockpiled – tens of thousands of employees need a holiday! “Annual leave accrual has become one of the hottest workplace and social issues […]
May 16, 2006
Greyhound coaches wanted back on Sydney/Melbourne east coast route Work for backpackers is an incentive to travel, especially to a ‘desirable region’. Because of a lack of integration of ALL the different types of existing transport – V-line, hostel/hotel courtesy […]
May 15, 2006
Recharge scheme a model for Victoria & other states/territories? In Melbourne’s outer northeast the Nillumbik Shire’s business sector has cooperated in a program that provides a recharge point for people who use electric scooters/wheelchairs. Many traders have also made their […]
May 11, 2006
An excerpt from a ‘guest diary’ passed on by an outback tour operator. ?A simple memory from outback Queensland that will last a lifetime ? Driving North in cattle country one evening, we pull off the dirt track to silently […]