Recently, Dorchester Collection’s teams at Le Meurice and Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris devised the #ParisDCchallenge, calling on select travel advisors around the world to make requests on anything they wanted to discover in the city, or any secrets the luxury DC Parisian Palaces could share.

The Qantas Australian Tourism Awards have been a longstanding and significant program for our tourism industry. In its 36-year plus history, the Australian Tourism Awards program has celebrated businesses that have demonstrated their commitment to quality visitor experiences, as well as providing a business development tool which has assisted businesses to review, assess and share their business goals and strategies.

Reed Exhibitions has confirmed the postponement of the Arabian Travel Market for 2020. Originally delayed from its 19 to 22 April 2020 time-slot to a new late-June/early-July date due to the coronavirus pandemic, organisers have since also evaluated rescheduling the annual show to the last quarter of the year. However, the “changing global situation” has now seen Reed scrap this year’s physical show altogether.

After several weeks of uncertainty, the US Travel Association has confirmed this year’s IPW (International Pow Wow) travel trade show has been cancelled for 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. IPW Las Vegas had been earmarked to run from 30 May to 3 June 2020 at the Las Vegas Convention Centre.

Qatar Airways recently offered a day trip famil from Sydney to Canberra as a unique opportunity to experience its newly-delivered Airbus A350-1000 aircraft and, more specifically, the fabled business class Qsuite. Three of TravelManagers’ NSW-based personal travel managers (PTMs) were among a group of travel agency participants who stepped aboard.

A group of 10 travel agents managed to enjoy a famil on the Cook Islands in the South Pacific, before border restrictions were put in place, soaking up six days of sunshine, while exploring both Rarotonga and Aitutaki.

Tourism Fiji will wrap up a week-long famil for 45 Australian Matai Agents today [Friday 13 March] in Nadi. All participants successfully completed Tourism Fiji’s Matai Training Program.

Adventure World Travel hosted the first of six exclusive events at The Mint in Sydney to present it’s ‘WILD Showcase’ on Tuesday 10 March, 2020.

Last Friday, 6 March at the National Convention Centre in Canberra, Australia’s finest tourism operators came together for the 2019 Qantas Australian Tourism Awards.

Last night [Thursday 5 March 2020] saw the official opening of Veriu Green Square, Sydney’s newest hotel.

Mega Famil showcases four of Honshu’s ski destinations, lesser known resorts Shizukuishi, Appi and Shiga Kogen as well as Hakuba.

Chicago’s tourism authority, Choose Chicago, was in Australia this week to promote the 2020 Year of Chicago Music – a year-long event that will celebrate the US city’s deep-rooted music history.