FAM with Qantas Holidays and Travelscene to experience Halloween in Hollywood.

The Sydney travel industry showed up in force for the final Sydney based Thirsty Thursdays for 2011 and got their Gleek on for a fun-filled night at HelmBar at Darling Harbour.

Creative Holidays, a division of the Travel Corporation and Australia’s leading independent holiday company, has held their annual Brand Management Conference in Dubai.

Royal Caribbean’s Splendour of the Seas has entered dry dock at at the Navantia shipyard in Cardiz Spain ready for her USD$35 million ‘Royal Advantage’ refurbishment.

The refurbishment has officially begun to transform Costa Romantica into the new Costa neoRomantica.

Rory McIlroy relaxing at Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel Shanghai after winning the Shanghai Masters with senior management of Jumeirah Group, his principal sponsor.

Last month, Creative Holidays held its annual brand conference in Dubai attended by Creative management, operations, product, sales and marketing staff.

Lufthansa has welcomed a new A380 into its fleet, arriving into Singapore Changi Airport earlier this week.

In March this year Tourism Tropical North Queensland and Qantas Holidays launched an incentive campaign which netted over 1,200 room nights for Tropical North Queensland (TNQ) – the equivalent to approximately $200,000 in gross revenue.

Creative Holidays and New Horizons Holidays hosted a supplier thank you dinner recently at the exclusive China Club in Singapore.

THAI hosted a lucky group of Flight Centre top-sellers from Australia, UK and HKG at the Pilot Training Facility in Bangkok recently.

Creative Holidays' Victorian Sales BDM Bianca Orsola-Rose presents Jessie Marke from Travelworld Central Melbourne with a $5000 cheque for being one of the top selling consultants in the company's recent Strategic Incentive.

The winner of ezeego1’s recent agent incentive of a $1000 travel voucher is Stacey Daley from Andrew Jones Travel, Salamanca

The 39th annual ABAV trade show took place in Rio de Janeiro 19-21 October and e-Travel Blackboard was on location as a guest of Globe Travel / The Brazilian Travel Centre.

Amadeus recently sponsored the Australian British Chamber of Commerce hosted lunch with John Borghetti, CEO Virgin Australia Airlines in Melbourne.

Taiwan is building its very own Stargate in a bid to distinguish Taichung City from other regions, create an urban culture for the locals and intrigue visitors.

Whilst taking a break from filming the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and Hobbit actor Andy Serkis who plays Gollum/Smeagol travelled to Queenstown with Ziptrek Ecotours.to unwind with his family.

Fifty travel representatives from Queensland gathered for lunch yesterday for ‘Christ-toberfest’ at Jephson Hotel Toowong’s Rooftop Bar.

Movidas Journeys recently sponsored and event run by Bogart's Cigars, "One Night in Chile" at the Vibe Hotel, Rushcutters Bay Guest-of-Honour, Mr Ignacio Concha, Consul General of Chile, gave a wonderful 'snapshot' of his country in his talk during dinner.

SkyTeam welcomed its newest member, China Airlines, in a VIP gala event in Sydney yesterday, attended by representatives from all other member airlines as well as trade partners.

Skal Melbourne has turned 50 and celebrated this weekend with a charity golf day and dinner at Royal Melbourne where we were entertained by guest speaker Dr John Tickell, a day at the Cox Plate on Saturday and a Gatsby Themed Tea Dance on Sunday.

Over 80 travel agents and wholesalers met with the Kerala Tourism team, operators and hoteliers to get a better understanding of what tourism options and products the Indian state has to offer on Tuesday 25 October at the Four Points by Sheraton in Sydney.

Escape Travel agents from around Australia are enjoying a sojourn in France with Avalon Waterways this week, travelling onboard Avalon Waterways Creativity for a memorable eight-day Paris to Normandy cruise.