1 FEB: Victoria and South Australia are proving boom states for home-based travel consultants judging by new TravelManagers data.

31 JAN: A change in operations at Sydney’s Garden Island dockyard could lead to a major breakthrough for the cruise industry.

31 JAN: The world’s biggest cruise operator has revealed a significant drop in bookings in the wake of the Costa Concordia grounding.

31 JAN: Air NZ ceo Rob Fyfe has announced  his resignation, effective late next year, following an earlier Fairfax NZ report today.

31 JAN: New technology is enabling guests at some 2000 hotels across the USA to use their smartphone, instead of standard remotes, to surf in-room TVs from this week.

31 JAN: Britain is going to lose billions of dollars in tourism earnings this year because Olympic Games organisers have blocked off far more hotel rooms than they need.

31 JAN: A diabetic woman caused a scare at Los Angeles airport after security agents mistook her insulin pump for a weapon.

31 JAN: Mexico has shrugged off global coverage of its savage, drug-related violence to predict record visitor figures for 2012.