Online versus the travel agent
Illustration: Robin Cowcher
Chris Vedelago reports on travel insurance and industry claims of costly commissions. Consumers can expect better deals on travel insurance as competition heats up between travel agents and online and direct insurance retailers...
Top destinations to swim with sharks
Wait until your mates see these pictures on Facebook. Picture: Craig Malin
ADRENALIN junkies looking for their next big thrill have created a new generation of brave traveller, with activities like shark diving an increasingly popular excursion on holidays...
World’s most expensive cities for hotels named
OLIVER SMITH. High priced … Moscow has the world’s highest hotel room rates. Hotels in Moscow have been revealed as the world’s most expensive for a fifth consecutive year.
Average room rates in the Russian capital were $A480 a night, down by $67 on 2008. However they were still more than $80 dearer than the second most expensive destination, Abu Dhabi...
Tourism industry takes another hit with Qantas grounding
The Qantas brand has long been synonymous with that of Australia, and the snap grounding of the carrier's 108 planes on the weekend will have a lasting impact for potential international visitors, according to Tourism WA chief executive, Evan Hall.
Verbal blows fail to ground pay rise for Qantas chiefs
THE Qantas chief executive, Alan Joyce, traded verbal blows with union heavyweights in one of the most hostile annual meetings of the year yesterday, leaving any resolution to their damaging stand-off even further away...
The one reason you need to visit Beijing
There's one key reason you should visit Beijing, and it's not to see the Forbidden City or Mao's tomb.
Why Oprah's visit didn't work
The money spent on bringing Oprah Down Under could have been better spent on the Chinese market.
I’ve done enough whingeing about Australia’s policy-free tourism strategy for 10 men. But what was I expecting when someone at Tourism Australia last year thought of the gimmick of inviting the Oprah Winfrey entourage here to tape some TV shows for overseas audiences?
