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Australia’s tourism and aviation’s flight path to recovery

Australia’s airlines, travel agents and tourism operators, restaurants and bars, hotels and caravan parks should expect a rush of hundreds of thousands of tourists with announcement of a new $1.2 billion support package from the Australian Government. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that while Australia’s...
Travel
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern | Photo: AAP/Bianca de Marchi

One-way trans-Tasman travel bubble to start mid-October

By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra The first stage of a trans-Tasman travel bubble will start from October 16. But it will only be one-way...
Politics + Society
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Air New Zealand | Photo: Ryan Fletcher:Shutterstock

The travel bubble with New Zealand includes NSW and the NT....

By Hassan Vally, La Trobe University New Zealanders will soon be able to travel to New South Wales and the Northern Territory, thanks to a...
Travel
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Silhouette airplane travellers sunset

Report: Future of travel and tourism in a post-COVID world

London, September 27, 2020 – The World Travel & Tourism Council , today unveils a new report that explores the implications of the trends for...
Travel
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Traveller Photo by Shutterstock

Australians don’t have a ‘right’ to travel. Does COVID mean our...

By Susan Harris Rimmer, Griffith University Australia is a nation of enthusiastic travellers, it is one of our defining national characteristics. At any given time, around...
Politics + Society
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A traveller walks between empty check-in kiosks at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in June 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

How COVID-19 could impact travel for years to come

By John Gradek, McGill University In late 2019, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) published its “Economic Performance of the Airline Industry” report. It contained...
COVID-19
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Virgin Australia

Virgin Australia was never going to last

By Warren Staples, RMIT University; Andrew Linden, RMIT University, and Mariano L.M. Heyden, Monash University Ever since Australia’s two airline policy of regulated competition was...
Business + Economy
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