Eight per cent of Australian adults travelled without travel insurance on their last overseas trip according to a survey commissioned by the Australian government and the Insurance Council of Australia – that is 850,000 visits by Australians overseas without insurance.
Sabre has unveiled its new Traveler Experience Platform. The Traveler Experience Platform brings together the critical aspects of travel management into a single mobile app that will manage the whole trip for business travellers. The Platform combines the online booking capabilities of GetThere for air and hotel, and the itinerary management and messaging features of TripCase.
Regional communities in northern Western Australia will continue to receive regular air services to and from Perth, following the extension of Skippers Aviation's deed of agreement on air routes for Carnarvon-Monkey Mia and the Northern Goldfields until 01 July 2018.
The Solomon Islands’ minister of Culture and Tourism, Bartholomew Parapolo, has underlined the priority his government is placing on tourism development and the efforts being taken to facilitate growth, during the recent South Pacific Tourism Organisation Council of ministers of Tourism meeting in the Cook Islands.
Remedial work is well under way on the runway at Fiji’s Nausori Airport which serves the capital, Suva. In recent weeks the airport has not been accessible to heavier aircraft which has caused the cancellation of Fiji Airways B737 flights to Sydney and Auckland, writes Kelvin King.
With about 4,000 confirmed cases in the USA to date, zika virus has now been detected in units of donated blood in Florida.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) Passenger Services Conference (PSC) has adopted a Resolution on a standard for the ONE Order initiative.
An ebola vaccine developed by Canadian researchers is going into a new phase of clinical trials.
Analyst STR says preliminary September data for London shows the UK capital’s hotel sector recorded the highest average daily rate (ADR) since 1995.
EU legislation promoting biofuels for transport could lead to higher, not lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to Transport & Environment (www.transportenvironment.org).
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology that can track passengers’ baggage could enable the air transport industry to save more than US$3 billion over the next seven years.
Spanish hoteliers say mainly British guests make 'suspicious' holiday sickness claims and are asking the UK travel agent body ABTA and major UK tour operators to lobby the UK Government to overhaul the claims system.
Since Britain voted in June to leave the European Union, airlines all over Europe including the UK have seen 25 per cent wiped off the sector’s market capitalisation.
Eight per cent of Australian adults travelled without travel insurance on their last overseas trip according to a survey commissioned by the Australian government and the Insurance Council of Australia – that is 850,000 visits by Australians overseas without insurance.
Sabre has unveiled its new Traveler Experience Platform. The Traveler Experience Platform brings together the critical aspects of travel management into a single mobile app that will manage the whole trip for business travellers. The Platform combines the online booking capabilities of GetThere for air and hotel, and the itinerary management and messaging features of TripCase.
Regional communities in northern Western Australia will continue to receive regular air services to and from Perth, following the extension of Skippers Aviation's deed of agreement on air routes for Carnarvon-Monkey Mia and the Northern Goldfields until 01 July 2018.
The Solomon Islands’ minister of Culture and Tourism, Bartholomew Parapolo, has underlined the priority his government is placing on tourism development and the efforts being taken to facilitate growth, during the recent South Pacific Tourism Organisation Council of ministers of Tourism meeting in the Cook Islands.
Remedial work is well under way on the runway at Fiji’s Nausori Airport which serves the capital, Suva. In recent weeks the airport has not been accessible to heavier aircraft which has caused the cancellation of Fiji Airways B737 flights to Sydney and Auckland, writes Kelvin King.
With about 4,000 confirmed cases in the USA to date, zika virus has now been detected in units of donated blood in Florida.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) Passenger Services Conference (PSC) has adopted a Resolution on a standard for the ONE Order initiative.
An ebola vaccine developed by Canadian researchers is going into a new phase of clinical trials.
Analyst STR says preliminary September data for London shows the UK capital’s hotel sector recorded the highest average daily rate (ADR) since 1995.
EU legislation promoting biofuels for transport could lead to higher, not lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to Transport & Environment (www.transportenvironment.org).
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology that can track passengers’ baggage could enable the air transport industry to save more than US$3 billion over the next seven years.
Spanish hoteliers say mainly British guests make 'suspicious' holiday sickness claims and are asking the UK travel agent body ABTA and major UK tour operators to lobby the UK Government to overhaul the claims system.
Since Britain voted in June to leave the European Union, airlines all over Europe including the UK have seen 25 per cent wiped off the sector’s market capitalisation.
