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Accor to cash in on Sunshine Coast boom
A former Best Western hotel at Kawana Waters on the Sunshine Coast has been relaunched under the Mercure brand in…
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Collapsed travel agency allegedly duped clients with fake airline tickets
New Zealand company Travel Globe sold fake airline tickets to travellers for six months before it collapsed this month owing…
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New Crown for Sydney as Tassie veteran gets facelift
Crown Group will open a luxury serviced apartment hotel in Sydney’s $13 billion Green Square development early in 2020.
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Smelly guest threatened by disgruntled Airbnb host
A jet-lagged Airbnb guest who slept without showering after arriving at his New York accom was berated about personal hygiene…
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$76m to fight “biggest challenge in living memory”
The government has committed an "unprecedented" $76 million to tourism recovery as it moves to protect jobs, businesses and local…
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All quiet in CBD as lockout laws pass into history
As the first night of Sydney’s post lock-out era passed without incident this week, leading accom bodies welcomed the removal…
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Give us your holiday homes, NSW urged
The NSW government has appealed for holiday home owners to open their properties for rent to bushfire-affected locals.
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Agoda ad rekindles ‘bait and switch’ fears
An online travel agency censured overseas for questionable advertising tactics is allegedly running 'bait and switch'-style promotions in Australia.
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US heeds ScoMo’s pleas to water down travel warnings
America has downgraded its bushfire warning for tourists travelling Down Under after prime minister Scott Morrison lobbied US vice president…
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Neurotic, narcissistic? Airbnb profiling could see you excluded
Airbnb has developed technology that can probe a guest’s online personality to calculate the risk of them trashing a rental…
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