The General Managers of Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris, Aaron Kaupp and Raffles Istanbul, Christian Hirt, are in Australia this week attending the Virtuoso Symposium, being held in Melbourne from 7-11 May, 2019.

Crystal marked its 16th anniversary of collaboration with Master Chef Nobu Matsuhisa on Monday [6 May, 2019] ahead of the Virtuoso Symposium this week in Melbourne, Australia.

Dream Cruises recently hosted a group from Australia and New Zealand on a five-night cruise from Singapore onboard Genting Dream. The itinerary included visits to Pulau Redang (Malaysia), Sihanoukville (Cambodia) and Laem Chabang (Bangkok).

A taste of Texas came to Sydney this week, with the folks from Visit Dallas and Visit Forth Worth holding an event in Sydney last night [Wednesday 1 May, 2019] to showcase Tex-Mex fare, tequilas, guacamole amid an update of the latest happenings in the Metroplex.

On Wednesday [10 April 2019], over 100 travel agents and trade partners gathered at ‘View by Sydney’ to discover a different side of Europe. ‘See Europe Differently’ was the theme of the glamorous Soiree put together by Entire Travel Group in partnership with Atout France, Monaco Tourism Board, Switzerland Tourism, Le Boat and Rail Europe.

Tourism Malaysia this week returned to Australia with a three city roadshow after a period of “hibernation”, in the lead up to its ‘Visit Malaysia 2020’ international campaign. The new drive aims to attract 30 million overseas visitors to the country, and a visitor spend of RM100 billion (AU$34.4 billion) in receipts next year.

For the first time in four years, Sydney is seeing substantial new hotel supply coming online, while its biggest rival, Melbourne is up 11% in overnight trips and looking at 13.9% growth in new rooms for 2020.

This week, Virtuoso hosted the annual Virtuoso Travel Week on Tour, Hotels event with 350 advisors attending four roadshow events across three cities (Melbourne, Gold Coast and Sydney) with 32 hotel product on show.

Bench Africa this week celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019 with an event in Sydney.