Tourism

Tourism Australia unveil new TV advertisment

Category:

Tourism Australia has unveiled its new television commercial featuring a jingle tourism chiefs feel captures the Australian spirit.

Battered tourism 'will quickly recover'

Category:

Tourism in the Whitsundays has taken a bit of a battering from Cyclone Ului but industry leaders say the recovery will be quick.

Tourists' biggest fear of Queensland? Sunburn

Category:

Australia is well know for its array of deadly animals but travellers heading to Far North Queensland are more worried about spending too long in the sun than a encounter with crocodile, shark or s

Best Job Ben Southall on Oprah Winfrey Show

Category:

Tourism Queensland's Best Job island caretaker Ben Southall has hit the big time on Oprah.

Tourist bonanza vanishes as fans give wide berth

Category:

Tourist bonanza vanishes as fans give wide berth

The collapse of the A1GP event is expected to deliver a multimillion-dollar blow to the Gold Coast as tourists cancel bookings.

Regional airports hit hard

Category:

New airline services from Asia, the Middle East and the US have buoyed international visitor numbers to Queensland, but regional airports continue to struggle due to airline cuts.

What downturn? Low-cost Asian airline boosts Gold Coast flights

Category:

Low-cost carrier AirAsia X has decided to buck the industry trend and increase its weekly flights between the Gold Coast and Kuala Lumpur by 50 per cent.

Following a boom in passenger traff

Australia 'boring, too expensive'

Category:

Tourism officials are wondering what has happened to Australia that has caused a slump in overseas and domestic tourists. Easy. We're boring, expensive, distant and difficult.

'World's best job' a job well done

Category:

Campaign does the job. The "world's greatest job" campaign recruited a young Briton, Ben Southall, as the caretaker on Hamilton Island.

Amsterdam's 'beer bike' to ride on

Category:

The beer bike will ride on in Amsterdam. The outsized bikes, seating groups of people around a central bar, are something of a fixture in the city's center.