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Pain, Purgatory and Pandemonium in Portsmouth: Another Europecar Farce

May 24, 2013 Car, Headline News No Comments

egtmedia59Sometimes in life you really do wonder why you repeat your own mistakes when you know that all of the bad experience from last time is highly likely to happen again.  … Continue Reading

Bring our payroll back onshore, Jetstar workers demand

egtmedia59Members of the big Australian Services Union (ASU) at Jetstar have presented their employer with a petition urging the airline to “re-shore” its payroll division. … Continue Reading

Five-star hotel to rise from old Brisbane court site

egtmedia59Brisbane is to have a new five-star hotel, located in the former Brisbane Supreme and District Courts in George Street. It will be the largest single development in the Brisbane CBD. … Continue Reading

Pointing the Pinky – Chefs at Sea

egtmedia59“You have to point your pinky” said chef Rudi; as we tackled the world’s most expensive, difficult to harvest and exclusive seafood.  We were eating barnacles– yes barnacles the things that grow on the bottom of ships – well sort of.  … Continue Reading

Win 5 nights at our Deluxe Room include breakfast for 2 persons at The Okura Prestige Bangkok

PrintThe Okura Prestige Bangkok is a 240 room luxury hotel located within the covering 34 floors of the iconic Park Ventures Ecoplex in central Bangkok, with direct access to the Phloen Chit Skytrain station. … Continue Reading

AFTA answers agent questions about TCF replacement

egtmedia59The controversial national plan to deregulate Australia’s travel industry, doing away with licensing and replacing the Travel Compensation Fund (TCF) with a voluntary scheme, is well under way. … Continue Reading

Cycling Tours Soar In Popularity

egtmedia59A global surge in cycling tours is underway with Australians taking a strong lead in the popularity of bicycle-based ‘lifestyle’ travelling says  SpiceRoads Cycling Tours CEO, Struan Robertson, who addressed travel writers and wholesalers in Sydney last night (21 May). … Continue Reading

Time to Get Srilankan’ed

egtmedia59Don’t just travel to Sri Lanka but invest in its growing tourism industry, was the slogan at the ‘Get Srilankan’ed event at Mumbai on Monday. … Continue Reading

Luxury Brits vote Australia best country in the world

egtmedia59Readers of one of Britain’s top luxury travel magazines have voted Australia “Best Country in the World”. … Continue Reading

Agents roam NZ’s wild West Coast on fantastic famil

egtmedia59Over 250 Australian travel agents have returned home after taking part in Tourism New Zealand’s Mega Famil, run in partnership with Emirates and tourism operators around New Zealand. … Continue Reading