 | Catching up during the NBTA conference at Sofitel on Collins Melbourne (from left) Pandora Spiteri, Singapore Airlines; Samantha Halpin, WorldHotels; Teena Schebella, Singapore Airlines
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The Asia Pacific region, and Australia in particular, needs to stop over reacting to the United States’ problems and get on with business – including corporate travel - finance and economics commentator Michael Pascoe told the National Business Travel Association (NBTA) Conference in Melbourne. ‘Australia’s economy had 2.7% growth last year, it wasn’t even a recession just a mild slowdown. So why are so many businesses scared and why did business travel in Australia fall away like the rest of the world? It is because we have been bombarded in the last couple of years by scary headlines, we’ve been told nothing but doom and gloom.
‘Unfortunately our media is American-centric, even our view of China is American-centric. We’ve all heard about the threat of the double dip recession. It’s not ours, so who cares. But already it is having an effect on global travel.’ (See the October issue of TRAVELinc for the full story.) |
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Business travel get together |
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The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) Australia / Mew Zealand 15th Annual Regional Conference got off to a social start on August 22, with a cocktail reception at Sofitel on Collins, Melbourne.
Catching up are Margie Stewart and Rowena Moll, both Hilton Worldwide; and Michael Fletcher, Grand Hyatt Melbourne
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Carl Amos is the new director of Starwood Global Sales New Zealand. Amos starts on September 13 and replaces Tricia Cornelius, who has relocated to Brisbane. Both will be at the Pacific Area Incentives and Conferences Expo (PAICE 2010) on September 15. Amos has had a long career with Air New Zealand, including considerable experience in the conference and incentive sectors. |
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Pacific Blue quits NZ domestic |
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Pacific Blue is to cease flying New Zealand domestic routes but will increase its trans-Tasman and medium haul routes. Anyone holding forward bookings on New Zealand domestic routes from October 18 onward and will be provided with re-accommodation and refund options. The Virgin Blue Group of Airlines (VBA) chief executive officer John Borghetti says the airline is adding capacity to routes with string revenue potential and 'removing capacity from services which are underperforming'. He says Pacific Blue will expand as an international medium haul airline, with operations across the Tasman, the Pacific Islands and South East Asia, adding that growing the trans-Tasman routes is a positive step that will see an increase in New Zealand based staff. |
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Peter Barlow, president of the Travel Agents Association of New Zealand (TAANZ), has been unanimously elected as chairman of the World Travel Agents Associations Alliance (WTAAA).
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