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CRISIS, what crisis? You can now fill up with petrol for less than $50 and use your spare change to buy a ticket for No Vacancy in Sydney on March 19 for just $449 - a saving of $100 off the standard rate.
No Vacancy will be a great day featuring industry leaders, panels, case studies, presentations and strategic insights.
These high-profile speakers have already confirmed and plenty more are on the way:
- Rachel Argaman, CEO Toga Hospitality
- Paul Constantinou, Chairman, Quest Serviced Apartments
- Robbie Cooke, CEO, Wotif.com
- Adrian Currie, MD Australia NZ, Booking.com, Chairman of Agoda.com
- Dean Dransfield, MD, Dransfield Hotels & Resorts
- Alan Featherby, CEO, Rendezvous Hotels and Resorts International
- Paul Fischmann, CEO, Eight Hotels
- Sebastian Fontanarossa, Director of Strategic Marketing –Pacific, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts International Operations
- Gabi Kool, Managing Director, Voila Hotel Rewards
- Ronni Kahn, Founding Director, OzHarvest
- Nick McCaw, Director, Hotel SO
- Ken Minnikin, Director of Marketing, Stella Hospitality Group
- Maria Taylor, Vice President Distribution, Accor Asia Pacific
- Adrian Williams, General Manager, Formule 1
- Michael Walmsley, General Manager, Hitwise
- Jon Wild, Global Marketing DIrector, HotelClub.com
Over the past two years No Vacancy has established a strong reputation for dynamic programming and great networking - almost 240 delegates attended the 2008 event.
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Oops, missed TRAVELtech this year?
Don't worry, Australia's leading online travel distribution and tech event will return bigger and better in early September 2009.
Meanwhile here's a few images from the 2008 event to whet your appetite.
TRAVELtech is an annual conference that examines the latest online travel marketing and web-based innovations in an informative and entertaining manner.
It has a well-established reputation for delivering relevant, high-quality content and excellent networking - see a sample of TRAVELtech 2008 delegates.
If you have any questions, please call Martin Kelly on 61 2 9882-1575.
Please visit the TRAVELtech photo gallery to see some more images from the 2008 event.
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Orbitz To Sack 10% of US Workforce
ONLINE retailer Orbitz Worldwide, which posted a net loss of US$287m for the September quarter, will sack 10% of its US staff by the end of this year.
CEO Steven Barnhart said the move would save US$20m and was necessary because all Orbitz businesses had slowed dramatically from October with little chance of the company meeting its 9% to 12% growth targets.
Barnhart claimed adeqaute business performance during the September quarter with net revenue up 9% and said the huge net loss was due to US$297m in write downs.
However, much of the growth came from outside the US, where bookings increased just 2%.
Orbitz has little choice but to cut costs. It is saddled with debt of at least US$600m and Barnhart indicated further cuts could be under way. Travel Trends.biz: November 11, 2008
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