Virgin Voyages has officially opened for business with travel partners in Australia, confirming last night [Tuesday 12 November, 2019] that transactions for the new luxury cruise line are available in Australian dollars. The move was exclusively revealed by LATTE two months ago.

Travel industry guests had the time of their life recently in Sydney at Virginia Tourism Corporation’s Dirty Dancing Dinner. Virginia Tourism President and CEO of Virginia Tourism, Rita McClenny, was guest of honour, along with her team Chrisiti Braginton – International Media Relations Manager, and Heidi Johannesen – Global Marketing Director, Virginia Tourism Corporation, all of whom were being hosted by Gate 7 in Australia for a week of trade and media calls.

I Love New York Australia has given six Australian travel agents a taster of the best of upstate New York with its incentive famil last month.

Luxury African safari lodge and reserve operator, Singita, hosted a group of Australian travel advisor partners on an East Africa educational in October.

Pippa Williamson, Senior Vice President, International Sales, Shangri-La International Hotel Management, and Jenny Williams, Assistant Vice President, Global Sales Sydney, hosted a Melbourne Cup lunch for Shangri-La Group partners at Altitude Restaurant at Shangri-La Sydney.

Austria National Tourist Office has just completed a three-city roadshow, concluding in Melbourne after a few days on the road visiting travel agents and partners in Sydney and Canberra.

A group of professional meeting planners headed to the islands of Oahu and Hawai‘i with Hawaii Tourism Oceania on a dedicated MICE trip in October. The trip was filled with unique experiences and Aloha hospitality, beginning with a champagne toast in the Qantas Lounge.

The multi-award-winning team at Helloworld Travel Mackay and Mt Pleasant are expanding their operations to Willows Shopping Centre, Townsville.

With the support from United Airlines, Visit California, Sonoma County Tourism, Visit Napa Valley and South Lake Tahoe, SF Travel, SFO and Brand USA hosted a San Francisco-themed event in Melbourne on 22 October to celebrate the launch of the new United Airlines direct flight between the two cities. The first flight from Melbourne departs on 31 October, 2019 and will operate three days a week every Monday, Thursday and Saturday until further notice.

Travel Oregon’s invited key trade, media and airline partners Thursday night in Sydney to don their Oregon-inspired ‘Slightly Exaggerated’ costume, bring their happier state of wellbeing and dream about their next magical visit to Oregon for themselves or their customers.

The Travel Industry Mentor Experience’s (TIME) Adelaide community and curious industry professionals gathered at Journey Beyond for an after-work session of networking and mentoring, fuelled by lashings of generously supplied refreshments.

Hard to get to locations in Jamaica, Honduras and Belize were accessed with ease for a group of travel advisors and executives, all first-time visitors to the Caribbean on the recent Scenic Eclipse VIP famil through the region. And while new destinations were ticked off the list of locations to explore, it was the ultra-luxury yacht itself and the facilities onboard that were the focus of this famil.