After two years of accruing leave,a worker is keen to head overseas for a month. But can an employer really knock back their request?
TripADeal co-founder Norm Black reflects on the holiday booking site’s growth and how it was courted by Australia’s biggest airline.
Twenty-five years after Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer set up a cooking school in Tuscany,a film about the experience,and their friendship,is brewing.
The 40-year-old consultant anesthetist at St Vincent’s Hospital in Darlinghurst pulls four-wheel-drive tyres along the sand for up to six hours,several times a week,to simulate the 200-kilogram sled he will drag across 2600 kilometres of snow and ice later this year.
When two American friends – later dubbed the “Drug Grannies” – were offered an all-expenses-paid trip,it seemed like an offer too good to refuse.
Touched by tragedy,Tom Turcich left his home behind to embark on a remarkable journey across 38 countries.
New hotels are popping up all over the Melbourne CBD,and while visitor numbers remain low,locals are taking the chance for low-cost ‘staycations’ in the city.
Flight Centre has warned investors of a higher-than-expected loss in the 2022 financial year due to slow uptake of leisure travel but says corporate bookings have bounced back to almost pre-COVID levels.
While international students can fly into Australia for university,teenagers in the country’s two biggest states are still waiting on government approval to study overseas.
In these climate impacted times,I just don’t want to blithely join throngs of Australian tourists circumnavigating the globe pointlessly,getting drunk in generic bars or lounging on beaches all day while the planet burns.
Rio’s top samba schools have begun putting on their delayed Carnival parades,their first after a hiatus caused by the COVID-19-pandemic.