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Travel 101: Australia's Great Barrier Reef
From The Great Barrier Reef is actually a maze of about 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching along Australia’s east coast, from north of Brisbane to Papua New Guinea. It is 1,240 miles long — the largest living structure on Earth — and home to a fantastic variety of marine and bird life including 400 kinds of coral, sea turtles, dolphins, dugongs and 1,500 species of fish with names as exotic as their colorings: painted sweet lips, sapphire sergeant-majors, rainbow parrot fish.Travel 101: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
Date: December 25th, 2004 | No Comments
Qantas climbs into China market
ACROSS China is a network of more than 300 specialist travel agents who each know the price of a beer in an Aussie pub.
They have been through three levels of training - including a joint course with the Immigration Department - and taken a 380-question test which they had to get 80 per cent right.
“They have to know what the weather’s like - the reverse weather: you go to Australia in China’s summer and it’s winter down there,” says Tourism Australia’s China manager and chief representative, May Tang. “They have to know what the attractions are, availability of accommodation, …
Date: December 19th, 2004 | No Comments
Government issues Indonesia travel warning
As thousands of Australians prepare to fly out to Indonesia for their Christmas and New Year holidays, the Federal Government has issued a new quite specific warning about the risk of a terrorist attack there. From Government issues Indonesia travel warning.
Doesn’t there seem to constantly be warnings??
Date: December 18th, 2004 | No Comments
Virgin's Branson Sees Fare War on London-Sydney Route
Virgin Atlantic Airways, controlled by U.K. billionaire Richard Branson, said its new flights between London and Sydney via Hong Kong will trigger a price war with rivals British Airways Plc and Qantas Airways Ltd. From Virgin’s Branson Sees Fare War on London-Sydney Route
Good news for travellers!
Date: December 14th, 2004 | No Comments
Tourism Australia Offers Three New Packages to Canadian Traveler
Looking for somewhere different to escape Canadian winter? With the seasons upside-down Down Under, December to March is high summer in Australia. So throw off the parkas and pack your sunscreen with three new packages from $1,949. From
Tourism Australia Offers Three New Packages to Canadian Travelers
What about the U.S. winter????
Date: December 12th, 2004 | No Comments
Backpackers careless about sex
Young Britons heading to Australia have received fresh warnings about the dangers of casual sex after a survey of backpackers in Sydney and Cairns revealed that more than half had had sex with a new partner “in the previous three days”. From Backpackers careless about sex
I dunno, but those numbers seem kinda high, even for backpackers….
Date: December 22nd, 2004 | No Comments
Tourism from China to quadruple
The number of Chinese tourists visiting Australia is forecast to quadruple in the next 10 years, prompting a new government strategy.
Chinese visitor numbers will rise from 220,000 to 960,000 by 2013, Federal Tourism Minister Fran Bailey said in an address to the Australian Tourism Export Council (ATEC). From Tourism from China to quadruple
Date: December 18th, 2004 | No Comments
Student on the road
Greetings, campers. News from the southern hemisphere:
Before we got to Australia, there had apparently been a pretty serious drought all over, with reservoirs down to 40 percent or something ridiculous. In proper form, of course, the day we flew into Sydney, the captain came over the intercom to say that a weather pattern had moved in, dropped the temperature 20 degrees, and that it was raining. It rained the first four days we were here and has rained off and on since then. From Student on the road
Travelogue. Yawn.
Date: December 16th, 2004 | No Comments
New stats give better picture of tourism
Australians spent $4.8 billion on international travel in the September quarter, up 9 per cent on the same time last year, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. From New stats give better picture of tourism
Date: December 13th, 2004 | No Comments
PROFILE - AUSTRALIA'S INBOUND TOURISM INDUSTRY (NOV 2004)
The number of overseas visitors to Australia during fiscal 2003/04 rose nine per cent to 5,057,200, breaking the previous record of 5.031 million set in 2000/01, when tourism was boosted by the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
The strong results are attributed to overseas marketing efforts and a revival in international travel after SARS and other factors affecting global stability influenced traveler sentiment. From PROFILE - AUSTRALIA’S INBOUND TOURISM INDUSTRY (NOV 2004)
Good news for Australian tourism!
Date: December 10th, 2004 | No Comments