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AUSTRALIA Melbourne 1 Hotel Melbourne (2024)Set on the banks of the Yarra River, this new hotel embodies the arty, eco-friendly spirit of the 1 Hotels chain. By way of regeneration, the luxury brand launched by former Starwood boss Barry Sternlicht is taking part in the Seafarers project. In other words, the metamorphosis of a former industrial...

The battle had been going on for several months. Authorised to operate a daily flight to Sydney, Turkish Airlines wanted to be able to increase the number of frequencies to Australia. The airline plans to launch flights to Australia in 2024. In the end, Transport Minister Catherine King put her signature to a new agreement...

Rumours of the return of a direct service between France and Australia have been circulating for some years now, particularly following the launch of a non-stop London Heathrow-Perth flight by Australian flag carrier Qantas. Last year, the Australian airline finally chose Rome Fiumicino for a seasonal flight. It has now finally confirmed...

A new controversy has arisen between Qatar Airways and the Australian government. The Qatari airline has requested additional frequencies between Doha and Australia. Qatar Airways currently offers 35 weekly frequencies, serving five cities: Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. This means two daily flights to Melbourne (one of which...

New and more new in Sydney's west. A fast-growing area, whose development is supported by the Australian government and the state of New South Wales, which are putting billions on the table to make this suburb a growth area. On the agenda: new transport infrastructure, new buildings, new...

As August draws to a close, the Australian hotel scene is confirming its dynamism. Alongside the arrival of Moxy in Sydney, another lifestyle brand is making its debut in Melbourne. Hotel Indigo Melbourne on Flinders has just opened on the eponymous thoroughfare. 216 rooms await business travellers, with the leitmotif being a tribute to...

It cost almost 110 million euros to give the Cairns Convention Centre a major makeover. And to take on a new dimension as a venue for international events. The full reopening of the site is expected in June, as its managers officially announced on Tuesday at the IMEX, the international...

Will Perth International Airport become Australia's new intercontinental hub? There is every reason to believe so. That's the ambition declared by Alan Joyce, CEO of Australia's national airline Qantas. Perth's geographical location, which might seem like a weakness, is proving to be an asset, at least for air transport. The capital of the state of...

Updated on 31/1 at 12 noon - Authors: Arnaud Deltenre and Luc Citrinot for the South-East Asia Australia region Sydney's famous Darling Harbour district is set to be enriched this year by a new landmark building, the Ribbon, with its curved, futuristic silhouette. This is undoubtedly because this major project, incorporating a...

Accor has opened its 400th hotel in the Australia-Pacific region with the launch of The Porter House in Sydney, as part of the MGallery collection. This strategic milestone consolidates the French hotel chain's position as leader in the region. It also demonstrates its pre-eminent role in the world of 'down under' travel, symbolised by the...

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has just confirmed this to the British newspaper The Times. According to the Australian airline's CEO, the carrier will be redesigning its Premium Economy seats. According to Alan Joyce, the seat will be a 'cradle' design offering a better recline, while the spacing between each row will be increased from 38...

Qatar Airways is one of the few airlines to have permanently offered flights to Australia, even during the harsh confinement of the country. Qatar even launched a new route to Brisbane in early 2020. The carrier carried more than 330,000 passengers between March 2020 and December 2021. Qatar Airways returns to...

The A350-1000 will be a small revolution for Qantas. Its entry into the Australian carrier's fleet is in line with the company's ambition to launch its "Sunrise" project. This will enable the airline to operate the longest commercial flights in the world. CEO Alan Joyce has already announced...

  The abolition of border restrictions in Australia from March is leading to an increase in the number of flights offered by Gulf airlines. These are generally the airlines that capitalise most on air traffic between Europe and the island-continent. The Airbus A380 is Emirates' war machine for...

In the battle over the Covid-19 pandemic, it seems that the Omicron variant no longer frightens the Asia-Pacific region. Lassitude after two years of a complete shutdown that decimated the economies of countries heavily dependent on tourism, realism in the face of a pandemic that is gradually becoming endemic due to herd immunity. And then, probably...

Neither Paris nor Frankfurt in continental Europe. Australian carrier Qantas has finally chosen Rome as its sole destination in the European Union. A city that will be added to its existing service from London Heathrow. Rome was chosen because of the strong demand from the Australian diaspora for flights to and from Australia. And also because...

Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia since August 2018, has been the gravedigger of the Australian tourism industry since the start of the pandemic. A paradox for a man who, we tend to forget, was Chief Executive of Tourism Australia, the country's national tourism agency, from 2004 to 2006. Since March 2020, Australia has been...

Every year, the end of July marks the peak of aviation activity around the world. It's a time when Europe enjoys its holidays, as does part of the United States. In 2019, however, the week of 19 July resulted in a total of 119 million seats, according to OAG. This...

The Qantas project was called "Sunrise". Developed by the Australian carrier, it was due to make its official debut in late 2022 or early 2023, with the aim of offering non-stop flights from Australia to Europe and New York. Unfortunately, Covid has come and gone in the meantime, profoundly changing...

While almost all of the 35 Qantas lounges are already open for domestic flights, the airline's international lounges are also starting to reopen. For the time being, however, this reopening will only benefit travellers covered by the trans-Tasman travel bubble introduced a few days earlier. And it is limited to...