Letters

Traveller letters: What is wrong with wanting to take a cruise?

What is wrong with wanting to take a cruise? People travel in different ways for different reasons.

Deals

Traveller Deals

Save up to 55 per cent on 2014 Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth cruises.

Room service

All the glamour and comfort yet none of the murder

JANE REDDY If The Great Gatsby whets yours appetite for a bygone era then a night at The Plaza in the Fitzgerald Suite is in order.

Frequent Flyer: Owen Campbell

Julietta Jameson This Australian busker-turned-acclaimed singer-songwriter is a fan of strong luggage.

Smart Traveller

Bye-bye Bali, aloha Hawaii

JANE REDDY Interest in Hawaii continues to grow, with more than 250,000 Australians and Kiwis visiting in 2012.

UK

Put another kipper in the pan

ROBERT UPE Determined to lift visitor numbers to 40 million a year by 2020, the British are counting on us, writes Robert Upe.

Nepal

Plane skids into river after brakes fail

Twenty-one people were hurt, including eight Japanese tourists, when a small plane skidded off a Nepal airport runway and plunged into a river, police said.

Air travel

Sydney father misses son's birthday after flight five minutes too late for take-off

Aussie father one of thousands that fall victim to night-flight ban at one of Europe's busiest airports.

Snow

Cheapest skiing in four years as snow comes down

ROBERT UPE Things are looking up for skiers and snowboarders with early snowfalls across Australia's mountain resorts. Now, Thredbo is about to announce its cheapest day-ticket price in four years.

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Air travel

Australian passenger sues over drinks cart accident

Chris Vedelago A wayward drinks cart could cost Qatar Airways a steep damages bill with a passenger alleging serious physical and psychological trauma after being struck by a trolley more than two years ago.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong visitors left deflated by lame duck

The giant inflatable rubber duck which has attracted tens of thousands of visitors since it sailed into Hong Kong two weeks ago was reduced to a sad deflated disc on Wednesday in the city's harbour.

Air safety

Poorly trained rookie pilot blamed for Bali crash

Indonesian authorities blamed poor training for a crash in which a rookie pilot undershot the runway and landed in the sea off the resort island of Bali last month, according to a report seen on Wednesday.

France

Crackdown as fake charities, pickpockets target Paris tourists

Paris police said they would deploy more officers to protect tourists against pickpockets and launch an awareness campaign to fight fake charity organisations targeting visitors.

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Finalists announced

Aussies fall short in 'best jobs in the world' contest

ROBERT UPE Tourism Australia's "best jobs in the world" competition has been whittled down to 18 finalists from 330,000 people from 196 countries, but there isn't an Australian among the final contenders.

Air travel

Angry airline worker throws chair at passengers

Colin Cosier A Chinese airline staffer has been filmed attempting to throw a steel chair at a passenger during a fiery altercation at Beijing airport.

Queensland

Logan, your next holiday destination?

BRIDIE JABOUR Watch out Gold Coast and the Great Barrier Reef, another Queensland attraction is attempting a grab of tourism dollars.

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Air safety

Pilot locked out of cockpit after door jammed shut

An Air India flight to Bangalore was diverted to another city after the pilot returned from a toilet break and found the door to the cockpit jammed shut.

Aircraft

Airbus shows off new A350 - no press allowed

French aerospace giant Airbus offered a sneak preview of its latest long-haul carrier, the A350, on Monday, rolling out a first model in front of hundreds of staff at its assembly plant in south-western France.

Air travel

Singing Whitney Houston fan forces flight down

A female Whitney Houston fan has been arrested after forcing an American Airlines flight to make an unscheduled landing when she would not stop belting out renditions of Houston's songs.

South Africa

Anger as video shows drunk guide confronting wild elephant

Video footage of an inebriated tour guide lunging out of his car and charging a wild elephant at South Africa's famous Kruger National Park is causing an uproar.

Europe

'Feminist nightmare': full-size Barbie Dreamhouse set to open

The opening this month of the first life-sized Barbie Dreamhouse in Europe may be the fantasy of many a little girl, but Berlin feminists are mobilising against what they call a sexist icon.

Freezing temperatures create flurries on the slopes

ADRIAN LOWE It is not yet winter, but already Victoria's alpine region has seen its second snowfall this year.

Lack of certainty upsets tenants as terminal readies for big upgrade

Anthony Dennis, Esther Han An upgrade of Sydney's Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay will help satisfy the demands of the booming cruise industry but the building's restaurant and bar tenants are upset over the terminal's uncertain future.

Gallipoli tour places threatened

SARAH WHYTE Thousands of people who have booked and paid to attend the Anzac Day centenary dawn service in Gallipoli in 2015 stand to miss out because only a restricted number of tickets will be issued via a ballot.

Anzac bookings spark warning

SARAH WHYTE Government warns a restricted number of tickets will be issued via ballot for centenary dawn service.

Sri Lanka

Tea 'good for your sexual performance'

A hot cup of Ceylon tea is better known as being soothing and relaxing, but Sri Lanka is now marketing its most profitable export as a luxury boost for the libido.

Gallipoli

'Irresponsible' travel companies warned on Anzac centenary tours

DAVID WROE Australians have been warned against buying tickets for the 2015 Anzac centenary dawn services from ''irresponsible'' travel companies before the national ticket ballot.