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1 month ago | 
travelweekly.com.au | Sofia Geraghty
Capella today announced its official partnership with Australian Fashion Week as a luxury hotel partner for the event.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
travelweekly.com.au | Sofia Geraghty
Flight Centre’s wholesaler Infinity Holidays has reportedly made a number of its staff redundant after it shut down its hotel API business. According to several industry sources, the redundancies were made a couple of weeks ago with at least 5-6 people let go. General manager James Whiting was made redundant in December last year.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
travelweekly.com.au | Sofia Geraghty
Several flights to and from Sydney were cancelled last night after a severe storm battered Sydney and parts of regional New South Wales. More than 40 millimetres of rain fell in Sydney’s CBD between the hours of 20:30 and 23:30, leading to flooding at Town Hall station and thousands of people being left without power. New South Wales’ emergency services was inundated with calls with as many as 1,240 calling with reports of fallen trees, leaks and roofs blowing off.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
travelweekly.com.au | Sofia Geraghty
You might have heard of greenwashing, but have you heard of consumer-washing? Probably not, but you’ll be familiar with it. Consumer-washing is the practice of ‘misleading’ consumers when it comes to pricing. It is when customers are attracted to buy at a great price, only to find out that, once they have gone to the checkout, their great price has been rendered obsolete by a number of asterisks. Well according to global tech company Travelport, travel is pretty bad at consumer-washing.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
travelweekly.com.au | Sofia Geraghty
News Posted 15 January, 2025 As an English expat living in Sydney, I am no stranger to the cost of eating, drinking, and breathing in London. It is not a place you go to for a cheap holiday. Yet on a recent trip back home things appeared to be extra price as the weak Australian dollar struggled to hold weight against the British Pound.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thenibbler.com.au | Sofia Geraghty
The Australian Tourism Exchange (ATE) will be held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre from 27 April to 1 May 2025. Tourism Australia requires all sellers attending the event to submit a front panel graphic with one image representing their business for marketing purposes at ATE25, while Destination NSW requires sellers to submit a back panel graphic with one image representing their business.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
travelweekly.com.au | Sofia Geraghty
The New York Times has revealed the 52 best places to travel to in 2025 and two Australian destinations have made the list. The annual list highlights the top travel destinations for the year ahead. Coming in at number 10 was Sydney which the NYT describes as a “seafood mecca” and an “expanded metro”.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
travelweekly.com.au | Sofia Geraghty
The 2028 Summer Olympics, to be held in Los Angeles, could be threatened as devastating wildfires edge closer to the city’s sporting venues including the Riviera Golf Club. At least 16 people have died as a result of the deadly wildfires which have now destroyed around 10,000 structures. After destroying homes in some of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods, the fires are now hurtling toward some of the venues for the 2028 Olympic Games.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
travelweekly.com.au | Sofia Geraghty
News Posted 10 January, 2025 Fresh Webjet data shows that, unsatiated by the Christmas holidays, Aussies are still eager for a last-minute break.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
travelweekly.com.au | Sofia Geraghty
The newly-completed Spirit of Tasmania IV ferry is to remain in Scotland for another month after TT-Line failed to lease the ship. The Spirit IV was built in Finland but has been delayed in Edinburgh as the port infrastructure in its home port of Devonport is not currently fit to house the ship. In its latest update on the Spirit of Tasmania ferry, the Tasmanian state government said that state-owned operator TT-Line had been unable to find a third party to lease the ferry.
