Christian Nielsen is a journalist and keen tourism industry watcher based in Brussels. He writes pretty much anything that takes his fancy, from the woes of travelling with kids to the latest ‘impact investing’ developments in Europe. But most of his output these days is in EU affairs, sci-tech writing and marcoms.
1. International travel International travel to Australia will soon see a boost after its Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that fully vaccinated tourists are allowed to […]
Australia’s strict measures and border closures have kept Covid-19 contagion numbers low, though it has come with a cost: the tourist sector has felt the brunt […]
Qantas has flown 15,020 kilometres from Buenos Aires to Darwin and touched down after 17 hours and 25 minutes in the air. The flight repatriated 107 […]
Fraser Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1992 and Australia’s sixth largest island, has been re-baptized to its pre-settlement name K’gari. From the local Butchulla […]
Australia’s tourism and trade minister, Dan Tehan, estimated that international borders would be open by Christmas and that the country will relax its travel restrictions before […]
A short train ride from Sydney lie the Blue Mountains. Designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2000, the ‘mountains’ were actually formed by […]
Tourism Australia’s latest campaign is not promoting travel to the Great Barrier Reef or the Great Ocean Road but something altogether different. “It’s Our Best Shot […]
Beach goers at Farnborough Beach in central Queensland, Australia, had a nasty shock last week when a giant crocodile was spotted swimming at the popular beach. The crocodile, […]
Australia’s Qantas Airways Ltd has said that for the next financial year it predicts an increase in domestic travel capacity which would will exceed pre-pandemic levels. […]
The Australian government has announced that Australians will be able to purchase half-price flights to several domestic holiday destinations under a new scheme which aims to […]
Australia is in the process of “working with Singapore” to set up a travel bubble between the two countries which will enable bilateral tourism. It is […]
On March 2nd, the Australian government announced that it will be extending its ban on international travel by three more months. The biosecurity emergency period extension […]