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Australia and New Zealand. Air New Zealand Holidays. week or so. The carrier said the planes GBTA exec director Michael The company isn’t commenting AOT has been working hard to would be used on long-haul McCormick announced the move on the deal at this stage but it’s build its profile in the New routes to Amsterdam, Bangkok, this morning at the GBTA Aust/NZ believed that details will be Zealand market, recently being Dubai and Guangzhou, boosting conference in Brisbane. finalised in the next few days. named as NZ’s Inbound Tour both pax and cargo capacity. The move is expected to see a Operator of the Year, as well as restructure of the Air New winning the key Kuoni UK Zealand wholesale operation, inbound account for NZ. European River cruising with affected staff currently being consulted about the changes. According to reports from New Fourth RSSC ship? 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Global Business Travel Visitors Bureau in California USA Packaged with air, the program Association conference in has launched a new website makes it easyfor travellers to have Brisbane, he highlighted the featuring a booking engine, a unique cultural experience. ongoing rapid growth of the calendar of events and printable At the program’s launch on Fri Chinese economy and its travel guide. representatives of the various implications for Australian The site covers four Orange tourist boards paid tribute to tourism and business travel. County attractions including Adventure World for its vision in In terms of housing, China theme parks and dinner shows - creating the unique offering. builds a city the size of Brisbane see visitbuenapark.com. every two weeks, he said. “However sometimes things slow down a bit and then they TOURISM only build a city the size of Adelaide,” he added. 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