Thailand Travel Mart Plus (TTM+) – the country’s most significant B2B travel trade event – made its return last week after a 2-year COVID hiatus. Held over three days at the beachfront Angsana Laguna Phuket, Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) used the show to highlight the destinations ‘Amazing New Chapters’ to buyers from 43 countries including Australia, Europe and the United States.

MSC Cruises recently hosted a group of travel advisors onboard MSC Bellissima on a week-long sailing from Dubai to Sir Bani Yas Island, Abu Dhabi and Doha, before returning to Dubai.

Rocky Mountaineer recently hosted travel partners from across the Asia Pacific region onboard the new Rockies to the Red Rocks journey in Southwest USA.

The past weekend saw itravel agent’s from across Australia unite for the network’s 2022 Conference, themed “Building the future,” as renewed confidence in travel signals new opportunities going forward.

Virtuoso Preferred partner, Ahoy Club Yacht Charters, recently treated a group of luxury travel advisors, along with the Virtuoso hierarchy – including Chairman and CEO Matthew Upchurch – to lunch at the extravagant ANZ Residence towering over the Sydney CBD.

Catalan Tourist Board hosted an intimate event in Sydney this week for Travel Trade and Media at Catalan restaurant, Parlar, to launch for the first time in Australia, “The Grand Tour of Catalonia” – a product designed to appeal to travellers visiting Catalonia with their friends and families. The product was initially rolled out in August last year to markets abroad, before its deployment here.

Five Travel Associates leaders have been treated to a fabulous week on Mykonos this week on behalf of Myconian Collection, the family-owned luxury hospitality group represented in Australia and New Zealand by Léa Seguier, under Léa and Craig Farrell’s new venture, ‘La Collection’.

Under the motto ReDesign Tourism | now over 1,200 national and international participants gathered in Vienna to take part in the three-day event which not only sent a strong “Welcome Back” message from Austria as a tourism destination but also discussed the future of the industry. Held from 16 to 19 May, the Austria Centre Vienna was the venue for one of the first post-pandemic international tourism conferences of this scale worldwide.

Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises welcomed close to 100 travel advisors around Sydney for an evening on the Harbour to mark a return to cruising in Australia.

Hawai‘i Tourism Oceania recently hosted a joint trade familiarisation with Outrigger Hotels & Resorts and Hawaiian Airlines coinciding with the relaunch of the Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach Resort following a massive US$80 million transformation.

Virtuoso hosted its annual Australia & New Zealand Forum in Adelaide over two days earlier this week, in the process of re-connecting 150 owners and managers and preferred partners from the luxury travel conglomerate. Participating at Virtuoso Forum ANZ was ‘Mr Luxury’ himself, Virtuoso Chairman and CEO Matthew Upchurch.

Mouths were masked but thousands of eyes were smiling at Africa’s Travel Indaba in Durban this week, back after a two-year break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.