Corporate Travel Analysis Reports For South Pacific

Average Ticket Price (ATP) to Sydney on many key international routes has decreased year-on-year, with airfares on the Sydney-Singapore and Sydney-Hong Kong routes falling more than 5%, according to new findings released today by Carlson Wagonlit Travel, in conjunction with CAPA - Centre for Aviation.

Fiji is stepping up efforts to attract visitors from India, which has emerged as the island's fastest growing source market.

Beginning 1-Aug-2017, Hilton Hotels will apply a 48 hour cancellation policy in the US and Canada. In some selected markets, it will be 72 hours. Although the airlines have long applied cancellation policies - and, in the US particularly - made a large amount of ancillary revenue from steep charges for any change, hotels have generally been much more generous.

There continues to be a trend where international visitors from the UK are "brexiting" Australia, but it is not exactly as it seems. Despite growth almost every year, visitor numbers cannot keep up with the onslaught of impressive results from New Zealand, China and the US. Within the last decade, the UK has moved from consistently being in second position as Australia's largest source of visitors to fourth place in 2017, and even monthly results as low as seventh place as evident in May-2017. Perhaps the launch of Qantas' nonstop London-Perth service will assist with improving these numbers and the UK can once again rival China and the US.

Artificial intelligence-powered travel assistant app Mezi says no. According to a recent survey conducted by the organisation, majority of people believe their corporate travel policy only moderately (at best) aligns with their overall company culture (52%).

As the world turns mobile, as customers initiate increasing amounts of airline buying transactions on smartphones, it looks as if China's growth has levelled off.

The Singapore Airlines Group is again boosting capacity to Australia for the winter season. The Singapore Airlines Group will be operating 168 weekly passenger flights between Singapore and Australia during the peak winter months in 2017/2018, up from 160 flights last year.

Townsville Airport is a regional airport serving the city of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Wholly-owned and operated by Queensland Airports Limited, Townsville is operated under a Joint User Agreement with the Australian Department of Defence.

Tourism NZ responded to new international visitor arrival results for Jun-2017, highlighting the impact a major event can have on tourism. The report, released by Statistics New Zealand, shows these visitors from the UK and Ireland peaked at 23,400 as a result of the British and Irish Lions tour. This is the highest number of combined monthly visitors to New Zealand from both countries since the last tour in Jun-2005.

On 22-Jul-2017 Qatar Airways updated the GDS and inventory timetable display to show a new daily Doha-Sydney-Canberra service effective from 12-Feb-2018. The airline will operate the route with Boeing 777 equipment, massively increasing its capacity to Sydney.