Travel World
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Air prices remain steady despite the many obstacles to travel
Air travel ticket prices have remained remarkably stable despite the gouging that the travel industry has experienced since the advent of COVID-19 this year. Despite all the uncertainties and rapidly …
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Travel professionals hope COVID-19 vaccine ushers return to normality
The extension of the travel bubble to include New Zealand will have prematurely raised the hopes of some that it will be soon be extended to other parts of the …
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Greek Australians among the 25,000 stranded abroad
The experience of travelling between Australia and Greece during COVID-19 is an Odyssey for those who attempt this, and the Karvelas family have experienced hassles more than once this year. …
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Payne announces hardship-program loans for vulnerable Aussies overseas
The Australian government is offering additional help in the form of loans for the most vulnerable Australians whose return home has been affected by COVID-19 restrictions. Australia’s Minister for Foreign …
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We’re banned from leaving Australia. Who can get an exemption to go overseas? And how?
Australians are all too aware of the restrictions on interstate travel and on who can currently enter Australia. But people may not realise there is also a ban on overseas …
Dialogue –
‘My friend received an airline refund. Why am I not eligible?’ A travel agent explains
I was contacted today week by a newspaper journalist who posed this question to me, as he was writing an article on why refunds seem to be months in coming, …
Travel agents explain struggle to secure refunds/vouchers for clients
There are a lot of things we took for granted pre-COVID, the ability to travel anywhere in the world and quickly now seems like a mirage. Aircraft are grounded and …
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Travel industry professionals tell us what travel will look like after COVID-19
Border closures, luxury hotel quarantine and cancellations abound as the coronavirus pandemic slowly took over the world. People are already itching to get onto a plane to make up for …
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Greece announces total travel ban with Turkey and UK flight ban
On Monday Greece announced the temporary suspension of all transport links with Turkey and also the suspension of all flights to the United Kingdom. Government spokesperson Aristotelia Peloni told a …
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Sublime Trieste, a mosaic of nationalities with haunting Greek remnants
There are few cities so sublime as Trieste. It is a work of art, architecture, geography topography and variety. Its people are a mosaic, at once Byzantine, Hapsburg, and Italian, …