Those with itchy feet are in luck with Virgin Australia bringing back its Happy Hour seat sale, meaning plenty of cheap flights across WA and — for those with exemptions — the country.
Geoffrey Thomas
Qantas is set to launch a massive intra-WA airfare sale with what are believed to be the lowest fares ever seen, according to insiders.
Shire councillors will tomorrow night decide whether or not to reallocate funding for the festival, which was pulled in April amid the pandemic.
Jakeb Waddell
The State Government is negotiating with crisis-hit Qantas and Virgin about putting on cheaper regional airfares to WA’s northern holiday hot spots.
Peter Law
A 400m-long flying fox — from the Matagarup Bridge to the Burswood Park foreshore — is likely to be open to the public early next year.
Joe Spagnolo
West Australians are planning road trips in droves, with caravan parks and tourist resorts booked out Statewide amid an advanced reservations boom extending to Easter 2021.
Caitlyn Rintoul
INSIDER: With COVID-19 hitting WA tourism hard, innovation and evolution have become the key to surviving and thriving.
Tess Ingram
For decades, WA has been promised ideas that will put our state on the global tourist map. From the Bell Tower, to safari parks, Kate Emery looks back at what has worked and what went wrong.
Kate Emery
Bali is hurting from a lack of tourists with no end in sight. As borders start to slowly creak open is it too soon for West Australians to head back to our adopted second home?
Steve Butler
The man behind Australia’s widely lauded Super Bowl commercial — starring Chris Hemsworth — has been brought in to help spearhead efforts to draw tourists to the West Coast.
Josh Zimmerman
WA artist Ben Juniper has a $10 million idea for Perth’s “big thing” to attract tourists to our State’s capital - a 91m-tall steel and copper dinosaur sculpture at Elizabeth Quay.
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Regional West Australians are calling for an inquiry into the management of roadworks signs, with fears there could be an increase in crashes with more families holidaying within WA.
Peter de Kruijff
Premier Mark McGowan has pointed to Victoria’s rise in coronavirus cases as he defended his refusal to say when WA’s borders will reopen.
Perth Zoo said 17-year-old Dumai had been unwell for a while and the team had been caring for him around the clock, almost like palliative care.
Consultation with traditional land owners is under way for an Indigenous museum but the McGowan Government is unwilling to fund a project “of that scale and magnitude” on its own.
Josh Zimmerman and Peter de Kruijff
The State's tourism industry will be carnage if the Job Keeper funding tap is turned off and interstate borders remain closed, Tourism Council WA chief executive officer Evan Hall has warned..
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WA is at risk of losing valuable interstate visitors if it lags behind other States in releasing a roadmap that sets out when the hard border will be torn down, “devastated” tourism experts warn.
Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham will urge Australians to do their “patriotic duty” and pump money into domestic travel in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Lanai Scarr
Mark McGowan's tough border stance could place Australia's economy on "life-support" and will strip the State of a domestic tourism market it has long craved, according to Tangney MP Ben Morton.
Exclusive: A new report by a respected WA think tank has highlighted the need for a draw-card landmark in Perth to propel the city to international prominence, bring in tourists and boost the economy.
A Kimberley conservation park has been renamed to remove its link to a former Belgian king who was responsible for the deaths of 10 million people in Africa.
COVID-19 restrictions have resulted in the loss or “hibernation” of one-third of regional jobs, with estimates country tourism operators are losing $77 million a week.
West Aussies are taking up the challenge to holiday within the State and help drive the post COVID-19 economic recovery, with weekly Airbnb bookings up 106 per cent on the same time last year.
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