Tourism
November 17, 2005
Domestic and international visitors spent $63.5 billion in Australia during the 12 months ending 30 June 2005. 57% of the domestic day visitor expenditure and 53% of the domestic overnight visitor expenditure ocurred in the regional areas which exclude the […]
November 17, 2005
Paul Broome, Marketing Manager of Xtreme Skydiving suggested the Mission Beach Visitor Info Centre (VIC) to support the huge voluntary effort put in by the local community. Paul says “The VIC is financially reliant on donations from the local community, […]
November 15, 2005
Low cost carrier Tiger Airways, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, is planning four return services a week between Singapore and Darwin from 19 December 2005. This means an extra 720 seats between, an increase of nearly 40% in weekly international […]
November 15, 2005
More wineries will be permitted in the Adelaide Hills region under proposed new changes that the state government says will further establish South Australia as the ‘wine state’. The government has announced it will be consulting on possible changes to […]
November 13, 2005
Over 120 tourism industry representatives – including wine and food producers and those interested in drive and event tourism – from across SE Queensland met in Toowoomba for an inaugural country tourism conference. The November 11 one-day conference was a […]
November 13, 2005
In February 2006 one of Denmark’s popular youth radio stations will run an Australian travel promotion, giving one lucky listener the chance to win a working holiday to Australia. Tourism Australia will work with the Danish Embassy, Tourism Western Australia […]
November 13, 2005
The workplace as we know it is experiencing a dramatic shift in power from the company to the individual, says Peter Sheahan, a ‘Workplace Trends Expert’. He says employees are being forced to fend for themselves when it comes to […]
November 13, 2005
A $54 million ethanol plant will be built in SE Queensland to boost supplies of alternative fuel. The State Government will link up with two Queensland companies – the Queensland Fuel Group and Petro Fuels and Lubricants – to begin […]
November 3, 2005
The Garma Festival won the ‘Educational Programmes – Media’ category in the Sk?l International Ecotourism Awards 2005. The award was announced in Zagreb, Croatia on 17 October. Sk?l is the largest organisation of travel and tourism professionals in the world, […]
November 3, 2005
Ford, Toyota, Mitsubishi and Holden management will jointly decide on the wording and appearance of ethanol labels by December, ready for a roll-out on new vehicles in early 2006. Australian Industry Minister, Ian Macfarlane would prefer labels being stuck close […]
November 3, 2005
Merimbula’s Wandarrah Lodge Backpacker Hostel in SE NSW has ‘all sorts’ staying – from a surgeon with the cheapest hire car to a man in his Rolls Royce trying to convince his wife to take up ‘hostelling’. The issue that […]
November 3, 2005
This post has been removed at the request of Emily Bayford, director of a discount holiday business. There has been confusion over two similar sounding business names mentioned in the comments.