Virgin Australia hosted key industry partners to an encore show at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival, bringing together high fashion and fashionable guests at Sydney’s Town Hall last Friday.

Air Vanuatu and the Vanuatu Hotels and Resorts Association (VHRA) said thank you to business partners last night as they presented awards to their most valuable buyers in Port Vila.

Canyon swinging, water rafting and scenic helicopter rides kept Australia based agents and event organisers on their toes last night at the Destination Queenstown Roadshow.

The meeting further cemented the strong relationships that exist between STB and the major players in the WA travel industry.

Charlene Darvell from MTA Travel in Queensland is eager to pack her bags and ‘Escape to Paradise’ after winning e-Travel Blackboard’s two return flights to Mauritius with Air Mauritius competition.

United was the official airline sponsor, providing two business class tickets each to the male and female winners of the race

Selina Nasir from Expedia in Sydney shows off her new favourite travel item after winning e-Travel Blackboard’s Camilla Franks promotion.

Trafalgar Tours top performing travel agents from Australia were treated to a beach tapas party on their last night in Sitges, Spain as part of the Acclaim 2011 incentive trip.

Trafalgar Tours turned the ordinary into the extraordinary last weekend, treating their top achieving ANZAC agents to a gala function in Barcelona, concluding their week long exclusive tour across Spain.

Twilight's Taylor Lautner and Academy Award winning Director Gus Van Sant attended a performance of IRIS - A Journey Through The World of Cinema last week at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles.

Butterflies performed on stage while buyers walked in and out of photo booths to capture their annual visit at the 2011 Sydney’s Event Showcase.

The fare held an Asian flavour. The sky overhead was distinctly Australian. But the setting was unmistakably Swiss, as Swissotel Sydney played host to an evening of winter frivolity at the Alpine Ski Hut.

Exhibitors and buyers ended the first day of socialising and showcasing at the 2011 Sydney’s Event Showcase with drinks After Dark.

Kain na or 'eat now' is possibly the most uttered phrase in the Filipino language and the newly renovated Grace Brasserie of The Grace Hotel Sydney is urging locals to ‘eat now’ as it hosts the Flavours of the Philippines Food Festival.

From cycling in Provence to touring the remote and largely unknown Queyras National Park which borders with Italy south of the Alps, agents on a 14 day UTracks Agent educational were challenged, rewarded and invigorated.

Harbour Plaza Hotels and Resorts said thank you to their valuable Australian business partners in Sydney on Friday following another memorable year for the hotel group.

Members and guests of SKAL International Australia rock ‘n’ rolled into Sydney’s Four Seasons Hotel on Saturday night as the organisation hosted its 10th SKAL Travel and Tourism Ball.

Emirates Airlines & Relais & Chateaux hosted an amazing famil last week with a select few lucky agents to New Zealand.

Mentors and mentees of the Travel Industry Mentor Experience (TIME) joined other industry professionals on Wednesday night at the Harbourview Hotel North Sydney to learn more about the professional development programme and to hear first hand from its members how the initiative was faring one year after its launch.

Pan Pacific Hotels Group has unveiled the look the exterior of its first all-green hotel in Singapore, PARKROYAL on Pickering.