For travel advisors its impossible to be acquainted with all of the luxe experiences available around the globe to recommend to their clients. So LATTE goes straight to the source to ask a destination specialist for their expert opinion. This week, we chat with Emilie Hess, Director of New Caledonia Tourism Australia.

Tourism Australia’s international Aussie Specialist Program has been revamped for domestic frontline travel advisors, providing a free online training resource for the trade to upskill.

Demand for private jets, private yachts and private villas are expected to soar in the wake of the COVID-19 travel crisis, a panel of experts have told Traveller Made’s luxury travel designer community.

Viking Cruises is launching a series of trade training emails for agents to learn more about Viking Expeditions.

Switzerland Tourism is offering up a bevvy of generous prizes to travel advisors who join a series of live webinars commencing 19 May.

New Caledonia Tourism has introduced its first-ever e-learning platform for travel advisors, complementing an overhauled and enhanced trade website. The platforms aim to engage the industry and enhance agents’ knowledge and understanding of the South Pacific archipelago.

Travel advisors can sharpen their knowledge on the Whitsundays following the launch of new and revamped destination training tools by the region’s tourism bureau, Tourism Whitsundays.

The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) has this week rolled out its ‘Abu Dhabi Specialist Program’, an e-learning platform to educate travel trade industry professionals with all destination-related information about the Emirate through a series of online courses.

The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact for tourism and hotel operators in New Zealand over the past 5 weeks or so since the government locked down borders to visitors. This week, LATTE chatted with Kiwi tourism figurehead and CEO/General Manager of The Rees Hotel Queenstown, Mark Rose, to get an update on how his luxury property is coping through the COVID-19 travel crisis, and what his thoughts are on the proposed “travel bubble” between Australia and New Zealand, and how long he believes it will take for the market to recover.

The year 2020 has been taken by storm with the deadly COVID-19 virus. Like everything in life, this too will eventually pass. Once the world has put this behind us, it will again be the time to travel, explore and relax. The little gem nestled in the Indian Ocean also known as Sri Lanka is a land of serendipity and natural beauty.

Destination DC, the official destination marketing organisation for Washington DC, has launched its global travel agent training program.

Independent retail travel network itravel is lobbying the Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA) to support a petition relating to the recall of supplier commissions.