TSAX 2010
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 Jacqui Timmins addresses the TSAX agents |
 Bowing out in style … After being the face of Qantas Holidays for years, Bettina Barker will soon be moving on, but she remained high-profile at the TSAX conference. She is pictured with Air Pacific’s Victor Sharan, left, and Andrew Marins. |
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 Alan Alcock (Wendy Wu Tours) and Visnja Pearson (Travelscene Eltham) compare notes during a conference tea break. |
 TSAX boss Mike Thompson is flanked by Air France KLM’s Maurizio Fabrisi, left, and Bruno Biasi |
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 Working diligently on a cruise solution … Newly installed head of JTG-Stella’s wholesaling division, Simon Bernardi |
 Go on, hit me, keynote speaker, Bob Redenbach, invites Adam Purdy (TSAX) during his “streetwise leadership” session |
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 Have I shown you my Churchill impersonation? Michael Deering (Flight World, Perth) with Peter McCormack (Royal Caribbean), left, and David Farrar (Insight) |
 Prominent at all the conference sessions were JTG chief executive Peter Lacaze and recently appointed chief financial officer Elizabeth Gaines |
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 They met in Buenos Aires. From left, Stephanie Chadwick from American Express’ New York office meets up with Kristen Mason from American Express’ Sydney office and Nicole Bennett from Air New Zealand’s Sydney office. |
 The “Come tango with Qantas” booth was a hit with conference delegates. Pictured joining in the fun is Sandra Whittington (Coastal Travel). |
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 Peter McCormack (Royal Caribbean), Maxine Wiggs (Travel Indochina) and Carl Frier (Sabre Pacific) |
 Jennifer and Andrew Want (Eden Corporate Travel) |
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 Winners are grinners – are they ever! Angela Buccella, second from left, and Marcelo Buccella, second from right, celebrate the win of their Adelaide agency, Travel Extra, in the TSAX Office the Year award. Congratulating them are an exuberant TSAX state manager SA, Maggie Bootsman, centre, and TSAX’s Mike Thompson and Jacqui Timmins. The presentation of the award in Buenos Aires was particularly poignant for Marcelo who was born in the Argentine capital and emigrated with his family to Australia when he was eight. |
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 Congratulations! Sydney-based managing director of The Travel Authority Peter Hosper toasts the success of his general manager WA, Lisa Byers, who took out the TSAX Manager of the Year award. |
 Julie Avery (Brighton Travelworld) is quizzed about her views of conference issues |
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 AFTA chief executive Jay Westbury, left, catches up with Travel the World’s Andrew Millmore |
 TSAX public relations consultants David Mair, left, and Lisa Jayne (LJ) Loch, right, pictured with Nicole Hague (TSAX) and Katrina Konstas (Amex). |
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 As always, TSAX conference stalwart, John Zaharakis, centre, was working with his team behind the scenes to ensure all went smoothly. He is pictured with Damian Borg and Nicole Pollas. |
 Nothing understated about the masks worn by Diane and Peter Lacaze to the final night’s masquerade party at Buenos Aires’ Paz Palace. |
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 The Travel Corporation executives hiding behind those masks are, from left, Andrew Yell (Creative), Tammy Marshall (AATKIngs), David Gendle (AATKings) and Rachel Harding (Trafalgar). |
 Elaine Dobra and Paul Cummings from Travelscene Redcliffe |
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 Ready for a big night at the masquerade party, from left, Margie Heffernan (Deep Creek Mountain Travel), Lyn McNaught (Travelscene at Lyn McNaught), Sue Gorman (Travelscene Kempsey) and Sue O’Donnell (Travelscene Maksville) |
 Mal and Julie Simpson (Champion Travel) |
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 Conference MC Sonia Kruger, right, meets up with Sebastian, son of Lenny and Rimona Padowitz. |
 Mother and daughter Maria and Vanessa Abeliotis (Travelscene at Travel Impressions) at the masquerade party |
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 Joanne Harding-Smith (Travelscene Samford), left, with Susan Haberle (APT) |
 Peter Lacaze took to the tango like a natural – or a man who’d been practising in the lead-up to the conference. |
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 Did she sign him up for Dancing with the Stars? Sonia Kruger struts her stuff with a tango professional |
 After the polished professionals demonstrated the tango, Bettina Barker (Qantas Holidays) showed what an enthusiastic amateur can do. |
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 Michael Chase Smith (World Travel Professionals) and David Mackenzie (Travelscene Kilsyth) caught up during the awards dinner and tango show at Benos Aires’ Esquina Carlos Gardel. |
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