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Australian Tourism Export Council. The peak industry body representing Australia's tourism export sector. Export tourism win with ongoing funding to rebuild China visitor market  ATEC today welcomed the Federal Government's Budget announcement reinstating funding to support and improve the Approved Destination Status (ADS) scheme.  ATEC has been calling on the Government to re-fund and refocus the ADS scheme which was key to Australia's success in growing the Chinese visitor market over two decades. The retention of Tourism Australia funding, critical to the ongoing rebuild of the inbound holiday maker market, is also welcomed. “ATEC welcomes the Government's commitment to supporting existing funding levels for Tourism Australia and its investment in promoting Australia,” ATEC Managing Director Peter Shelley said tonight. “Moving forward we will look for increased funding to ensure Australia remains competitive in the global tourism marketplace.” This year’s budget has allocated $8.1 million over 4 years to rebuild the China ADS scheme, which was defunded and put on hold during the pandemic. More than 670,000 Chinese holiday makers delivered over $3.3bn in spending in 2019. “ATEC has been advocating for the reinstatement and refresh of this important program since the re-establishment of visitors from China last year and we are pleased to see this funding back in the budget. “We see an opportunity for the China ADS program to be modernised to strengthen service delivery and to focus on consumer driven, quality group tour offerings. This budget allocation will enable us to achieve these changes with the security of ongoing forward funding for the first time.” Mr Shelley said allocations for the Export Market Development Grant scheme have been retained with the addition of $10.9 m for the ‘Go Global Toolkit’ to support new exporters (including tourism exporters) to grow their markets. “We congratulate Minister Farrell for his strong advocacy for our industry and the support he has given in securing the ADS for our tourism exporters.” 

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Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum became president of the Dubai Department of Civil Aviation in 1985. In the same year, he became chairman of the newly founded Emirates. Commencing operations with two aircraft, Emirates today the world’s largest fleet of Boeing 777s and Airbus A380s. By December 2023, it had a fleet of 260 aircraft in service and flew between 143 destinations. The Emirates Group today also includes dnata, a global air and travel services provider operating in over 30 countries. In the 2022/23 financial year, the Emirates Group’s revenues surged by 81%, hitting $32.6 billion. Emirates Airlines made $29.3 billion in revenues and carried 43.6 million passengers. Al Maktoum is also the chairman of Dubai Airports and Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority, and holds several other Dubai government leadership roles. #Forbes Emirates Full list link.. https://lnkd.in/dP2Sj9nF

Another airline bites the dust in Australia Bonza has joined the growing list of airline failures in Australia after only launching in January 2023. Once again, the promise of low fares has been unsuccessful. It appears they have been too low. Unlike the previous collapses, Bonza can’t blame Qantas or Virgin for competition as most of their flights were to unserved destinations. Yet again, the Australian airline industry will suffer from the repercussions of an ill-conceived plan, eroding confidence among travellers and investors which will impede the emergence of much needed domestic competition. As in the past, those that suffer financial damage are the passengers (this time reported to be over 60,000) who have paid for future flights, but most importantly the employees. They’ve believed in the management, been proud of their role in the company and dedicated long hours to make their airline a success. The 320 Bonza employees were told a day or two before they were due to get paid their one month’s outstanding salary that Administrators had been appointed and there was no money to pay them.    Do badly managed companies think they can be relieved of their responsibilities to employees by relying on the Government’s Fair Entitlements Guarantee (FEG) to help repay some of the outstanding salaries? Well, it gets them off the hook, doesn’t it? What is the reason some airline managements have no moral compass when it comes to looking after the well-being of their most precious asset – their employees?