Aug 19th, 2010
First Official Chinese Leisure Tourists Arrive in Canada
Canada has welcomed its first official leisure tourists from China this week, after Asia’s economic powerhouse granted approved destination status to Canada earlier this summer. “Several hundred” Chinese tourists arrived in Vancouver on Wednesday, the Canadian Tourism Commission said in a statement, after a group of 18 Chinese tourists landed in Victoria, B.C. on Monday. [...]
Aug 18th, 2010
China Passes Japan as Second-Largest Economy
China is the right place, right now, for the global tourism industry – precisely why the World Youth & Student Travel Conference is coming to Beijing this October. After three decades of spectacular growth, China passed Japan in the second quarter to become the world’s second-largest economy behind the United States, according to government figures [...]
Jul 14th, 2010
UNWTO Strengthening Ties with Australia
The combination of a dynamic private sector and strong political support of tourism has been instrumental in the way Australia has driven tourism as a motor of socio-economic development. This was the message taken by Taleb Rifai on his first visit as UNWTO Secretary-General to Australia. Go to original story. Speaking at the opening session [...]
Jun 3rd, 2010
New Visa Regulations Threaten Overseas Student Enrolment in Australia
Australia’s international education sector can lose up to 2 billion dollars in revenues as overseas student enrolments are expected to fall by over 20 % following new visa changes and rising competition from North America and Britain. The country’s international student recruiter IDP chief executive Tony Pollock claimed that changes to visa rules and priority skills [...]
May 20th, 2010
100 College Leaders To Be Trained Overseas In 2010
China will start a program this year to send 100 college leaders overseas to receive short term training in foreign countries including Japan, the US, England and Australia, the Beijing News reported Tuesday. The program, initiated by China’s Ministry of Education and State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, aims to let Chinese college leaders learn [...]
Apr 21st, 2010
Tom Griffiths remarks at ATEC
Evolving, elusive backpackers are becoming the experts of travel, using technology to bypass businesses according to GapYear.com founder Tom Griffiths. Speaking at the ATEC Backpacker and Youth Industry Conference in Hobart this morning, Griffiths said compared to 10 years ago, today’s backpackers have evolved through technology and are becoming travel experts, telling each other how [...]
Apr 21st, 2010
ATEC delegates agree discounting is killing product and investment
Discounting in the backpacker accommodation sector is hampering product development and inward investment, delegates at the ATEC Backpacker and Youth Industry Conference have agreed. Participants in a breakout session focussing on accommodation cited unsustainable discounting as a major challenge for the industry, with guilty parties unable to reinvest in their businesses and having to cut [...]
Mar 16th, 2010
Website Travel purchases Backpackers World Travel
Website Travel has announced the purchase of Base Tourism Group retail arm Backpackers World Travel for an undisclosed sum (BWT). Under the agreement, Website Travel will acquire the BWT brand along with all 18 retail branches and five ‘implants’, while Base will retain all of its hostel travel desks which will continue to trade as [...]
Mar 8th, 2010
TA Global Market Monitor shows steady inbound arrivals to Oz despite worldwide decline
Despite the global financial crisis and swine flu, inbound tourist arrivals to Australia remained static in 2009, compared to a four per cent decline in tourism worldwide. According to Tourism Australia’s latest Global Market Monitor, while January 2010 arrivals are expected to remain flat year on year due to the later Chinese New Year, beyond [...]
Mar 8th, 2010
Au Pair in Australia Program Just Added by InterExchange Working Abroad
InterExchange Working Abroad has just expanded its Australian program offerings to include a new Au Pair in Australia program. This is the third program InterExchange offers in Australia. With Australia’s popularity as a travel destination for adventure seekers, InterExchange has created yet another option for young people who wish to work while they travel.
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