The Sebel on Albert Park put on a spectacular function complete with snow on arrival for Melbourne Skalleages on Thursday.

A group of Flight Centre agents doubled their fun in Hawaii when they visited Oahu and Maui during a recent Hawaiian Airlines, Infinity Holidays and Hawaii Tourism Oceania famil.

Heralded as the party of the silly season, Sabre Pacific did not disappoint guests this year hosting the crème de la crème of the industry to an exclusive cocktail event in Sydney last night bringing a tumultuous but successful 2011 to a close.

Dubai Tourism accepted a mission with Emirates and Arabian Adventures to host an exclusive screening of Tom Cruise’s new movie Mission Impossible 4 – Ghost Protocol.

South African Tourism and SAA took 19 lucky Flight Centre agents on a recent famil to South Africa, with 17 of the agents experiencing the wonders of the country for the first time.

George Clooney with The Star’s managing director, Sid Vaikunta at The Darling hotel, where George Clooney was the first to stay in the hotel’s new luxurious penthouse suite.

Melbourne was the place to be yesterday as over 760 industry professionals packed the Crown Palladium for the years big event Christmas TraveLeague

Travel Counsellors made the most of TraveLeague Christmas Networking Function by inviting their top achieving agents, better known as “Gold TC’s” to the luncheon at Crown to kick off a full day of celebrations.

Dubai Tourism in conjunction with Emirates and Arabian Adventures hosted key industry partners in Sydney to the premiere screening of the latest instalment to the Mission Impossible franchise.

The ArtScience Museum in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore gave media an exclusive walk-through of their newest exhibition; Cartier Time Art.

The Garuda Indonesia Sydney office were all smiles when Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd dropped by their christmas party to congratulate the team on the introduction of double daily flights to Indonesia and celebrate 2011, as well as toasting to an even better 2012.

What do the Titanic and Narnia have in common? Exhibitions to both legendary tales have landed in Singapore’s iconic, Marina Bay Sands.

Last week 20 retail travel agents attended a Vanuatu Famil hosted by the Vanuatu Tourism Office.

The team set off in an Apollo 6 berth Euro Deluxe motorhome and stayed at the Ocean Beach Holiday Park.

Holland America’s music themed ms Zaandam arrived for her inaugural sailing out of Sydney last Friday.

Cuddly cute lion cubs stole the show from Nat Geo Wild presenter Ben Britton, last week as he promoted an upcoming World Expeditions' Wild Africa trip, led by Ben to conserve Africa's Big Cats.

The Australian Tourism Export Council closed its three day 2011 Meeting Place conference in Oriental style last week with an Asian inspired Gala Dinner at the Hilton Sydney.

Amadeus, a leading travel technology partner and transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry, congratulated Jetabroad, a global online flight specialist and travel agency, for being recognised as one of Choice’s top flight comparison websites.

Wishing you a happy holiday and a wonderful new year

Recently, a lucky group of agents experienced a 10 day educational to Fort Worth, Dallas and Walt Disney World Resort in Florida courtesy of Qantas Holidays.

Passengers aboard Orion en route to Antarctica were greeted by more than 15 humpback whales yesterday with the captain positioning the vessel perfectly for those wanting to capture the memorable occasion.

A lucky group of Flight Centre agents ventured on a winter wonderland ski trip with Adventure World in Canada this week.

This group of selected agents from APT’s Platinum and Gold preferred partners in Victoria were thanked for their support while celebrating the release of APT’s first Africa brochure recently with a safari-type outing at Victoria’s Werribee Open Range Zoo.