Top Columns
Plaudits for Ferguson – and Sydney airport |
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Eleven significant events of 2011 impacting the Australian travel industry |
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ATEC’s new strategic plan to meet the challenges of 2012 and beyond |
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Let’s hear it for Avis |
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Jobs and taxes – what AFTA told the Federal Government summits |
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NTIA wins underline quality of wholesalers and importance of agency relationships |
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Let’s hear it for Avis |
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Jobs and taxes – what AFTA told the Federal Government summits |
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Let’s lighten up folks. After all tourism is supposed to be fun |
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Heated preferred policy debate |
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For the nation’s travel agents Australia remains the Lucky Country |
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Labour and skills – hard work for Australia’s regional tourism operators |
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Promising early sales for 2012 |
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The good news for agents contained in the latest outbound travel statistics |
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The economy is more important than the exchange rate in travel decisions |
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Skroo, AFTA vice chairman |
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Clearly, the proposed carbon tax is not a good thing for our industry |
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NTIA wins underline quality of wholesalers and importance of agency relationships |
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Support for the outbound industry |
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The challenges of carbon tax, consumer confidence and AUD levels |
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Alliances with personal services can provide a way forward for tourism industry |
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Whose money? |
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The challenges of carbon tax, consumer confidence and AUD levels |
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Inbound tourism results: Australia scores goals in one out of five top markets |
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Cruise lobby? Good luck! |
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Consumer protection: Time for our politicians to show decisive leadership |
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Travel foreplay: direct selling optional, direct marketing essential |
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Regulatory reform: so far so good |
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2010 – big, busy and a little bit messy for the Australian travel industry |
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Forces of nature have dramatic impact on our industry |
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Fuel price rises to hit outbound traffic? |
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2010 – big, busy and a little bit messy for the Australian travel industry |
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Essential for governments to provide certainty in tourism agency funding |
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2010 – as good as it gets? |
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2010 – big, busy and a little bit messy for the Australian travel industry |
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Wholesalers achieve good results in 2010 but no room for complacency in 2011 |
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So who succeeds Lacaze? |
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Unity of purpose essential for success of AFTA's planned consumer campaign |
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Alliances with personal services can provide a way forward for tourism industry |
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OTA hotel battle looms |
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Consumer protection review remains the big issue for the travel industry |
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Tourism industry must seek better deal from politicians in election year |
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The crucial challenge facing PATA |
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Consumer protection review remains the big issue for the travel industry |
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The Stella-Jetset Travelworld merger: vertical integration should not go too far |
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A healthy inbound approach |
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Politics of student visas are a concern for Australia’s inbound tourism industry |
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No conundrum: AFTA board is fully representative of its member agents |
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A conundrum for AFTA |
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Tourism industry must seek better deal from politicians in election year |
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AFTA’s small loss represents an important investment in agents’ future |
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A TIMEly initiative |
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Broadly based CATO committee will aim to widen membership Australia-wide |
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Steady-as-she-goes Budget as May ushers in next phase of travel industry development |
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Franchise brand monopoly for JTG/Stella |
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TTF’s Brett Gale looks at the new Tourism Australia campaign |
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TA’s new campaign has the legs to deliver results for 3-5 years |
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Balanced, well-researched AFTA submission goes to consumer protection review |
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TA’s back-to-basics campaign |
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International meetings, Borghetti, SSA co-operation, Morgan confidence meter |
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Wholesalers grow more positive, seek level playing field from PWC review. |
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Borghetti is back. Ian Mc Mahon discusses the return of former senior Qantas executive John Borghetti to the Australian airline scene at the head of the Virgin Blue Group. |
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AFTA’s Jayson Westbury analyses prospects for travel agents in the coming year … |
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TTF’s Brett Gale looks behind the better-than-expected inbound tourism figures to find $4 billion worth of bad news … |
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Ian McMahon ruminates on the increasingly crucial contribution of cruising sales to the viability of bricks and mortar travel agencies. |
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Positive travel industry outlook for 2010 after a difficult 2009 |
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Four lessons to be learned from 2009 |
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Rising optimism for 2010 |
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ATEC View – December 2011/January 2012
Another View – October 2011
TTF View – August 2011
ATEC View – March 2011
TTF View – October 2010