Vanessa Brown

6 days ago | news.com.au | Vanessa Brown

Game, set, match. If you’re a fan of a tennis tournament or an afternoon at the footy and you’re more than willing to travel hours or even days to attend — you’re not alone. New stats from online accommodation platform Airbnb says the concept of ‘sports tourism’ — whereby people travel specifically to select cities not simply to enjoy the destination, but to attend a sporting event or two — is exploding within Australia’s domestic market.

1 week ago | news.com.au | Vanessa Brown

Australian travellers have been issued a new travel warning to a popular stop over point, amid ongoing hostilities and conflict in the Middle East. Smartraveller, which is run by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), issued the warning overnight — sending an alert that travel to Qatar (including stop overs in Doha) should be taken with “a high degree of caution”. “We’ve raised our level of advice for Qatar.

1 week ago | news.com.au | Vanessa Brown

The family of Australian teenager Holly Bowles — who died after consuming contaminated drinks laced with methanol while staying at a hostel in Laos — have revealed their “heartbreak” that the property may reopen in a matter of months. Since the tragedy unfolded at the Nana Backpackers Hostel in November last year, where Ms Bowles died alongside five others staying at the property — including her best friend Bianca Jones — the budget accommodation has remain closed.

1 month ago | nypost.com | Vanessa Brown

An Australian woman who was rejected at the US border and put on the first flight back to Brisbane says the ordeal has been life-changing in the worst possible way ever since. In 2022, Queenslander Madolline Gourley arrived to the always-chaotic Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on a flight in from Brisbane.

1 month ago | news.com.au | Vanessa Brown

An Australian man has reportedly been pulled from the water, after going missing while on holiday in Thailand. The 41-year-old, reportedly from South Australia, was reported missing by his wife on May 7 in Phuket, according to local media. Three days later, authorities were alerted by the chief lifeguard at Freedom Beach, who had spotted a body drifting about 20 metres from the shoreline during his morning patrol.