Where to now for the flying kangaroo?

The failure of Alan Joyce’s preferred strategy for creating a new Asian hub to bolster Qantas’ loss-making and shrinking international business is a significant setback for the group even though it has been obvious for some time that the prospect of an imminent deal had receded.

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Trip Advisor gets censured for 'fake reviews'

Updated on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 11:34PM by Paul Blazey

A few days after putting out it's 2012 Top Hotels list which has been surrounded in controversy as many people have complained about the quality of the reviews, the world's largest travel website, TripAdvisor, has been censured by Britain's advertising watchdog. British Advertising Standards Agency (ASA)

It has now been formaly warned that it must not claim that all of its user-generated reviews are from real travellers.

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Another list of Top Hotels by Tatler.

EIGHT Australian hotels have been named among the world's best by UK's Tatler magazine.

Three Queensland hotels - Hayman Island, Lizard Island and Noosa’s Makepeace Island - made it onto the list of the 101 Best Hotels in the World for 2012.

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The World's Top 25 Hotels (According to Trip Advisor)

The Phoenix Resort in Belize is the world's best hotel according to TripAdvisor.

TripAdvisor, the US based and world's biggest travel website, has named the 25 best hotels in the world and in Australia - and the lists are mutually exclusive, yet how reliable are they?

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The great hotel WI-FI Ripoff.

Why are we getting ripped off for wi-fi?

The Internet has become an absolute travel esstential and has infact furthered the travel industry's cause and profitability like nothing else since the introduction of discount airlines, so what's the deal with being charged by hotels for WIFI when it's probably available right next door in a coffee shop for free?

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Are Low Cost Airlines destroying Australian Tourism?

BUDGET airlines are slowly killing Australia's domestic tourism industry, a leading Australian travel agent has warned.

Alan Dodson, who is managing director of travel company Holiday Planet, said he was finding it harder and harder to market Australia as a destination with low-cost carriers such as AirAsia and Jetstar offering such cheap packages to Asia.

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Did the Oprah effect really work?

Australian Tourism’s $4m bet on Oprah but did it work?

She’s a billionaire TV Star but still needs millions to make it down under for a holiday.

Victorian taxpayers are chipping in as part of a national $4 million package, including $1.5 million in federal cash and $2 million from the NSW Government to get her downunder.

That was the deal that created an awefull lot of hype this time last year for Tourism Australia but did Oprah's tour - dubbed Project O by local tourism insiders actually work?

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Future of Tiger hangs in the balance

Updated on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 07:40PM by Paul Blazey

Updated on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 10:45PM by Paul Blazey

Updated on Monday, December 19, 2011 at 01:25AM by Paul Blazey

The future of Tiger Airways hangs in the balance as it finds its operations in Australia grounded, it will lose $1.5m a week and has also been ordered by the ACCC to halt all ticket sales.

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The facts about Ashclouds and Aircraft

With all this talk about Ash Clouds and Volcantic erruptions delaying thousands of travelers all over the world, we's thought it's a good idea to have a look at what the facts are and how it effects aircraft and air travel.

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The art of catching the train in Shinjuku

Getting STAMPEEDED IN SHINJUKU.

And there they were – going everywhere in every direction at a thousand miles an hour just like ants do when you step on their nest.  It was mayhem and just like an ant’s nest deep underground lies Shinjuku Station, Tokyo.  The world’s busiest. Seven levels of multiple platforms moving over 2 million people a day, that’s right – 2 million, now that's a lot of ants!

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