Silversea has shunned Sydney in favour of Brisbane on the just unveiled 149-day World Cruise 2027, The Three Oceans, which will depart Los Angeles on 8 January aboard Silver Dawn.

EVT Hotels & Resorts has assumed the hotel management of The Inchcolm, Brisbane, effective today. This arrangement marks an extension of the existing partnership with Invictus Developments and further expansion of the Independent Collection by EVT (ICbE).

Delta Air Lines will launch a brand-new seasonal Los Angeles-Brisbane route commencing 4 December 2024, operating three times weekly through 28 March 2025. The introduction of Brisbane as Delta’s second Australian gateway was foreshadowed exclusively by LATTE late last year.

American Airlines has announced it will commence new non-stop flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Brisbane from October – the first-ever scheduled service between the destinations.

United Airlines has today begun its new Brisbane to Los Angeles service with the inaugural flight of UA284. The new non-stop service will fly three times a week using Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, significantly increasing capacity to the US out of the Queensland captial.

Delta Air Lines is seriously mulling an expansion of its Australian operation beyond Sydney to include Melbourne and Brisbane, with new non-stop flights to either cities, or both, potentially as early as 2024.

Air Canada is bulking up its South Pacific network to near pre-COVID levels, announcing the return of daily flights between Vancouver and Sydney, coupled with a resumption of services to Brisbane and Auckland.

Effective 1 March 2022, Emirates will boost capacity on the Brisbane route to a daily service, re-introducing its flagship Airbus A380 to the Queensland capital.

Fiji Airways will resume commercial flights from Brisbane to Fiji from Sunday 23 January after Queensland announced this week it would welcome the return of international visitors from this Saturday.

Crystalbrook Collection has unveiled its newest asset and first property in Brisbane; Crystalbrook Vincent. Located beneath the Story Bridge at the Howard Smith Wharves, Crystalbrook Vincent is the Australian hotelier’s seventh property to open in three years, and follows hot on the heels of Crystalbrook Kingsley’s debut in Newcastle last month.

Crystalbrook Collection is ramping up its luxury east coast hotel portfolio with the acquisition of Brisbane property, The Fantauzzo, for $75 million.

Many members of Small Luxury Hotels of the World’s loyalty program remain intent on travelling domestically in the last quarter of 2020, a survey has found.