Flight Centre Travel Group’s Premium Leisure and Independent brands, which include Travel Associates, continue to scope out opportunities for growth in market share, with the US and UK viewed as key new regions to tap into, and at pace.

Last week, five Virtuoso travel advisors arrived in Los Cabos to experience the Mexican paradise, where the desert meets the sea. The group took part in a famil following Virtuoso Travel Week in Las Vegas, where Los Cabos Tourism was recognised on the global stage, bestowed with the honour of 2022 Best Tourism Board Award.

Virgin Hotels has ambitions to expand its collection of boutique luxury properties to Australia in the next 5-10 years, but will assess the right opportunities, particularly in Sydney, earlier should it present itself, says CEO James Bermingham.

Southern Crossings, specialists in bespoke luxury travel in Australia and New Zealand, became the first antipodean to claim the title of ‘Best On-Site’ at the annual Virtuoso Travel awards ceremony in Las Vegas last week.

Frontier Travel’s General Manager, Ann-Catherine (AC) Jones was among the luxury travel industry’s global elite at Virtuoso Travel Week on Wednesday.

With the 2023 AU/NZ Forum heading offshore for the first time since 2019, LATTE can reveal the program in Fiji will undergo some refinements and provide more time for connections – one of the key pillars of the global luxury travel network.

Virtuoso concluded its 34th annual Virtuoso Travel Week with an elegant evening of recognition, honouring individuals and entities that have gone above and beyond in the travel industry over the past year.

Virtuoso is getting close to confirming an Australian version of its colossal Travel Week show in the US within the next few years, LATTE can exclusively reveal.

Corporate travel work-from-anywhere specialist, 1000 Mile Travel Group, aims to fulfill a long-term vision to enter the lucrative United States market within months and rapidly build scale.

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton company, Starboard Cruise Services’ Luxury Division, is forged a strategic alliance with Virtuoso to redefine transformative cruise travel by curating tailored-made destination retail moments with Virtuoso’s preferred luxury cruise partners.

A new brand for Tourism Western Australia – with a strong focus on Indigenous culture – that promises to “redefine the destination” is on the verge of being launched by the state tourism board.

Virtuoso welcomed an audience of 5,000 of luxury travel’s top professionals for its 34th annual Virtuoso Travel Week conference in Las Vegas on Saturday. With attendees from 100 countries, including LATTE, this was the largest Virtuoso event since the beginning of the pandemic with more than 4,320 in-person attendees and another 680 virtual.