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Rex may still have sightsvset on Cape York09 Feb 2015Torres News, Thursday Island QLD, General News
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Bowditch joins Bleach swell11 Feb 2015Daily News, Tweeds Heads NSW, General News
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Brisbane Airport Approved For $3.8bn Upgrades11 Feb 2015 3:00 AMTheUrbanDeveloper.com by TheUrbanDeveloper
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The Brisbane Airport Corporation?s Master Plan for 2014 has been given the green light by the Federal Minister for Infrastructure andRegional Development.The document is a blue print for future demand and analyses passenger forecasts and key...
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Travel Daily travel industry news11 Feb 2015 11:48 AMTravel Daily by - Colonel Sanders
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Whitsundays flights revamped, Brisbane-Tokyo to operate daily. Qantas has just announced a revamp of its international anddomestic network into Queensland, with the move expanding direct flights into the state.
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Koala creations to show off amazing animal attitudes12 Feb 2015Gold Coast Sun - Central, Gold Coast QLD, Regional Changes - South
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Direct China flights to Cairns 'are now critical'12 Feb 2015Cairns Post, Cairns QLD, General News, Nick Dalton
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Want to be a pilot?12 Feb 2015Gold Coast Sun - Central, Gold Coast QLD, Regional Changes - South
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Airport enters digital age with upgrade12 Feb 2015Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD, General News, Andrew Potts
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Parallels highlight dilemma12 Feb 2015Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD, General News
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We need more 'voluntourists'12 Feb 2015Cairns Post, Cairns QLD, General News, Nick Dalton
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Rex may still have sightsvset on Cape YorkREGIONAL Express (Rex) has addeda Saab 340 aircraft to its Townsvillebase and is setting its sights on growthin Queensland following the shutdownof Skytrans.
Rex had planned to start new servicesto Cape York ports in North Queenslandafter Skytrans stopped flying.
However, it later dropped those plansafter consulting with local communities.
However in a statement on January30, Rex general manager of networkplanning and strategy Warrick Lodgeclosure of Skytrans gave Rex, "theeconomies of scale to further service themore remote parts of Queensland likethe Cape Peninsula, as well as respond tothe solicitations of other cities that havebeen crying out for our great hospitableair services at affordable fares".
"The past 30 months have seenpassenger numbers declining due to theeconomy and the increased competition,"Mr Lodge said.
"Rex needs to respond to this chal-lenge by finding growth in other areas.Queensland represents the perfect op-portunity for us given its size, geographyand absence of quality regional carriers.
Mr Lodge said Queensland was afocus for the airline given difficulties inother parts of Australia and the potentialfor new opportunities in the state afterSkytrans closed its doors in January.
"Rex will continue to inject moreaircraft into Queensland in tandem withnew opportunities opening up in thestate."
The airline currently operated fiveQueensland government route contracts,with its total network in the state compris-ing 23 destinations.
The aircraft brings to 52 the numberof Saab 340s in the Rex fleet, the airlinesaid in a statement on Friday January30, this Saab 340 was acquired fromVincent Aviation, which collapsed inMay, 2014. NEWS
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A Vincent AviationSaab 340 similar tothe one acquired byRex Aviation. VincentAviation collapsed inMay, 2014.
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Torres News, Thursday Island QLD09 Feb 2015
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Bowditch joins Bleach swellNOW in its fourth year, Bleachfestival isn’t slowing down as itgrows to engulf the Gold Coast inseveral weeks of beach-inspiredbliss.Organisers have just announcedARIA award-winning singer/songwriter Clare Bowditch hasjoined the line-up of the officialartist-in-residence for this year’sevent, from March 6 to 22.Tickets are selling fast for Bow-ditch’s Big Hearted Businessmorning tea on Sunday, March 15.“I aim to teach people to get intouch with what they know, whatthey are passionate about, andhave the courage to talk about it,”Bowditch said.“People tend to be scared aboutchanging their lives and theircareers. On one hand, it’s notrocket science. It takes an enor-
mous amount of courage andresilience to go against the normwhen it comes to defining yourown life and make money in waysthat makes sense to you.“This will be an intense work-shop and I won’t be wasting timeslapping on about how awesome Iam. Just bring your pen and paperand if you are willing, you willmeet some excellent like-minded
people from your walk of life.”Bowditch will also host a freeperformance workshop on Satur-day, March 14.Another change to catch upwith Bowditch is the Clare on theCouch event at Currumbin’s Dust
Temple from 7pm, Friday, March13. To register, email rsvp@bleach-
festival.com.au.No experience is necessary tojoin Clare’s workshop; just thetrue desire to learn and perform.The workshop is strictly limited to
50 people; to register [email protected] will also meet Gold Coas-ters at Clare on the Couch onFriday, March 13 from 7pm at DustTemple at Currumbin.Visit bleachfestival.com.au.
SONGSTRESS: Clare Bowditch will be artist-in-residence at this year’s Bleach* Festival. PHOTO: ANDREW VUKOSAV
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Daily News, Tweeds Heads NSW11 Feb 2015
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Koala creations to show offamazing animal attitudesCURRUMBIN Wildlife Sanctuaryare giving Gold Coasters the chanceto get up close and personal with anAustralian icon – but you won’t beable to cuddle these giants.
About 30 koala statues will pop-ping up around the Gold Coast nextmonth as part of the Animals WithAttitude Sculpture Trail event.
The last sculpture trail attractedplenty of interest in 2013 and raised$97,000 for the Currumbin WildlifeHospital.
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuarysales and marketing director GregDaven said he hoped to raise evenmore money when the latest sculp-tures go up for auction in May.
“The last auction was a great suc-cess in both exposure for the wildlifehospital and the foundation,” he said.
“We decided after our first
sculpture trail that due to the size andscope it would be best if it happenedevery second year.”
Gold Coast-based visual effects art-ist John Cox who won an AcademyAward in 1995 for his work on themovie Babe, is the man behind thisyear’s sculptures.
“There will be some superhero-themed koala sculptures this year, aDigger sculpture commemorating theAnzac Centenary, someenvironmental-themed koalas andBlinky Bill as well,” he said. “This yearthere will be a much greater activationacross the Gold Coast.”
The Animals with Attitude koalatrail will take place between themonths of March and May with 10 ofthe sculptures to be featured at QueenElizabeth Park Coolangatta, in con-junction with Bleach Festival.
Two of the koala sculptures that will make up the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Animals With Attitude Sculpture Trail.
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Gold Coast Sun - Central, Gold Coast QLD12 Feb 2015
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Direct China flights to Cairns ‘are now critical’
NICK DALTON
A TOURISM leader is callingfor urgent action to get regulardirect flights from China toCairns.
Tourism Tropical NorthQueensland chief executiveAlex de Waal said internation-al links were the quickest andeasiest way to get Chinese tothe region as domestic servicesget tied up in bottlenecks.
“Domestic services are fastbecoming a bottleneck, con-straining international visitoraccess to Tropical NorthQueensland with airlinesfocused on building returns,”he told more than 200 peopleat the ANZ Bank Yum ChaBusiness Lunch yesterday.
Mr de Waal said the bottle-necks at Sydney, Brisbane andMelbourne airports were theresult of airlines focusing onensuring their aircraft were fullinstead of adding more flights.
“Sometimes there are noseats available (on domesticflights to Cairns),” Mr de Waalsaid.
He also warned that Aus-tralia was not getting a goodshare of Chinese tourists.
“Growth to Tropical NorthQueensland has been strong,however Australia is not get-ting an appropriate share ofthe huge growth in total travelout of China,” he said.
Mr de Waal said Australiawas getting just 464,000 visi-tors a year from 100 millionChinese outbound travellers,or 0.46 per cent, yet SouthAfrica was attracting 4 percent, 10 times Australia’s share.
Cairns Airport chief execu-tive Kevin Brown said the in-crease in daily China Easternflights from Shanghai for Chi-nese New Year celebrationswere proving their worth, in-creasing from 12 last year to 28in 2015.
“Last year direct flightsbrought 6000 people of the20,000 who came to the re-gion,” he said. “This year I ex-pect 15,000-16,000 to comedirect, 13,000 of those onChina Eastern flights.
“To make new direct servi-ces from China to Cairns areality we now have to lobbythe Federal Government to
lend their support by providingincentives for airlines andreducing passenger movementcharges. Chinese visitors willstay in a destination for an av-erage of five nights if they can
access it by non-stop flights. Ifthey have to reach the desti-nation by a connecting dom-estic service their average stayis only 2.5 nights.
“That means we have the
potential to double our yieldfrom Chinese visitors by push-ing them from connectingflights to non-stop. Chinesevisitor numbers to Guam areshowing strong growth, so we
need to ensure they are awareof the direct services to Cairnsfrom Guam as another accessroute to our destination.”See the Chinese New Year guide in the Weekend Post on February 21
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Cairns Post, Cairns QLD12 Feb 2015, by Nick Dalton
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YUMMY: Chinese tourist Fling Yu enjoys yum cha ahead of the Chinese New Year at Cafe China. Picture: VERONICA SAGREDO
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Cairns Post, Cairns QLD12 Feb 2015, by Nick Dalton
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Want to be a pilot?GLOBAL flight training organisation Airways Aviation is inviting aspiring pilots of all ages to sign up for an Instructional Flight and Pilot Career Session next Saturday. Created for anyone who dreams of flying, particularly school leavers, the event gives young men and women a chance to take a flight alongside a qualified instructor. Prospective students and their parents can discuss training and career options with qualified pilots and experienced instructors, and can tour the flight training facilities at the academy at the Gold Coast Airport. Sessions will be held throughout the day on Saturday with each session accommodating a maximum of four people. Limited places are available and bookings can be made by calling 02 8880 5190.
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Gold Coast Sun - Central, Gold Coast QLD12 Feb 2015
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Airport enters digital age with upgradeANDREW POTTS
THE Gold Coast Airport’scontrol tower is set to undergoa multimillion-dollar upgradeto bring it into the 21st century.
Airservices Australia hasawarded a $20 million contractto install a new digital system
which will do away with one of
the control tower’s oldest tra-ditions.
Paper strips indicating theposition of planes will be re-placed by touch screens as partof the new Integrated TowerAutomation Suite (INTAS).
The tower upgrade will becompleted at the end of theyear and will go online in 2016.
Airservices Australia execu-tive general manager Mark
Rodwell said the system wouldbring together a number of in-formation and communicationsources and controls withinthe tower into a single system.
More than $10 million hasbeen committed to the ILS,which will allow planes to landin poor weather.
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Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD12 Feb 2015, by Andrew Potts
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EDITORIAL
Parallelshighlightdilemma REMARKABLE parallels exist betweenthe oil city of Edmonton and the tourismcity of the Gold Coast.
Until yesterday, Edmonton was biddingfor the right to host the 2022 Common-wealth Games – an event to run four yearsafter the Gold Coast hosts its Games.
But it was not as though the Canadiancity rushed into lodging its bid with its eyesclosed. Edmonton hosted a previous Com-monwealth Games – 37 years ago – andremains committed to doing so again.
With its 2022 bid derailed by oil prices,Edmonton now intends mounting a chal-lenge for the 2026 event. When it first putup its hand to run a $1 billion-plus event for2022, oil was selling at $100 a barrel, but thecity reported yesterday that with theplunge in price to $50 a barrel, the provinceof Alberta withdrew and left the way clearfor Durban to host the African continent’sfirst Commonwealth Games.
Edmonton is acknowledged as one ofthe fastest growing cities in North America,if not the fastest, much like the Gold Coastis seen as one of the fastest growing cities inAustralia.
The Canadian city’s population is nowalmost double what it was when it ran itsfirst Games in 1978.
Similarly, the Gold Coast-Tweed is ontrack to double its population between nowand 2050, taking it from more than605,000 now to 1.2 million – a growth ratepresenting significant opportunities thatwill be highlighted in a presentation to theGold Coast business community thismorning by demographer Bernard Salt.
Edmonton was banking on investmentand development in preparation for 2022to provide the infrastructure revamp need-ed to keep up with its booming population.
Back in 1978, the city was able to open itslight rail transit system in time for theGames, and its Commonwealth Stadiumbecame home to the Canadian FootballLeague’s Edmonton Eskimos.
Our city’s main Games stadium at Car-rara, where track and field events will bestaged in 2018, is already home to the GoldCoast Suns AFL side.
Gold Coast commuters and tourists al-ready enjoy the benefits of the first stage ofour light rail, but the city understands theneed to extend that transport system tolink with heavy rail from Brisbane and itsinternational airport in time for the 2018Games.
Our challenge is to make the govern-ment-in-waiting, whichever colour it maybe, and the public service mandarins inBrisbane, understand how and why that isso important.
Like the economic, sporting and socialbenefits Canada enjoyed after 1978, theGold Coast and Queensland stand to ben-efit from the Games legacy for decades be-yond 2018, provided sensible decisions aremade now.
With the city’s population taking off likea rocket, it is puzzling that the Gold Coastshould have to fight to be heard in its callsfor infrastructure development.
Surely the reason should be obvious.
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Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD12 Feb 2015
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We need more ‘voluntourists’NICK DALTON
THE call is going out for morepeople to become tourism vol-unteers in Cairns as the cur-rent roster clocks up a recordmonth of work in February.
Cairns and Tropical NorthVisitor Information Centrevolunteers will record morethan 1500 hours in February.
Tourism Tropical NorthQueensland chief executiveAlex de Waal said the centre’s42 volunteers would be coping
with eight cruise ships at theport and the arrival of Queens-land Rail’s steam train nextweek on February 13 for its150th anniversary celebrations.
“These dedicated volun-teers will be the first friendlyfaces guests see when theyleave their cruise ship or thesteam train to sightsee aroundthe region,” he said.
“As well as providing a meetand greet service, the volun-teers also staff the accreditedVisitor Information Centre on
The Esplanade where theyprovide friendly and impartialadvice on what to do in Trop-ical North Queensland andbook tours.
“TTNQ wants to train morevolunteers to ensure we haveadequate numbers to fill theroster of 280 volunteer hoursper week,” Mr de Waal said.
He said volunteers helpedmore than 948,000 visitorssince the Esplanade centreopened in 2003. The millionthguest is expected this year.
Among the volunteers yes-terday were 12 TAFE students.
A TAFE spokesman saidthere were about 20 studentvolunteers who helped out aspart of yesterday’s volunteerswelcoming ceremony.
He said the Certificate III inTourism students also took
part in a program designed tofamiliarise them with Cairns.
To volunteer contact visitorservices operations managerWayne Joughin on 4051 3588or [email protected]
WE NEED YOU: Tourism volunteer Sadiar Pitt welcomes German tourist Willy Laux. Picture: VERONICA SAGREDO
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