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YouTrip to expand into Australia after Thailand
Reuters, Published on 02/12/2025
» SINGAPORE — Singapore-based fintech firm YouTrip said on Tuesday it will launch in Australia, its first new market since the coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, aiming to use it as a springboard for further expansion into other high-travel Asia-Pacific markets.
Do blue zones hold the key to future travel?
Business, Vijay Verghese, Published on 13/08/2024
» What constitutes a perfect holiday? Clearly there are vastly divergent views on this. Pundits and peripatetics have long struggled with this conundrum, never quite finding a satisfying answer.
Angry Qantas investors block executives' pay plan
AFP, Published on 03/11/2023
» MELBOURNE - Jeering Qantas shareholders voted down a pay package for the company's top brass Friday, as the outgoing chairman apologised for a public "loss of trust" in Australia's much-loved carrier.
Russian tourists top Phuket's 6 million visitor list
News, Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 04/06/2023
» Phuket welcomed more than 6 million international tourists during the first five months of the year, with Russians the biggest group among them.
Phuket hotels lack workers
Business, Molpasorn Shoowong, Published on 15/12/2022
» A stronger occupancy rate and the abrupt surge of the Russian market has Phuket hotels facing a labour shortage during the high season, prompting operators to urge the government to help attract more foreign workers to shore up the market.
Phuket sees 4m foreign tourists
News, Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 24/09/2022
» Over four million visitors have arrived in Phuket in the first eight months of 2022, generating at least 66 billion baht for the resort island, according to deputy governor Pichet Panapong.
Long Covid costs Australia millions of working days
AFP, Published on 26/08/2022
» SYDNEY: Long Covid has already cost the Australian economy three million working days this year, according to a government analysis seen by AFP Friday, significantly worsening the country's acute labour shortages.
Australia sues Facebook owner Meta over scam ads
AFP, Published on 18/03/2022
» SYDNEY: Australia announced on Friday it is suing Facebook owner Meta over scam adverts for cryptocurrency schemes that falsely claimed to be endorsed by prominent figures.
'Fortress Australia' re-opens to tourists after two-year Covid closure
AFP, Published on 21/02/2022
» SYDNEY: Australia reopened its borders to vaccinated tourists Monday, nearly two years after the continent nation imposed some of the world's strictest Covid-19 travel restrictions.
Sydney Airport poised to sell for $17 billion
AFP, Published on 08/11/2021
» SYDNEY: Sydney Airport announced on Monday it had agreed to a US$17 billion takeover bid by an Australian investor consortium, just days after reopening to international travel.