June 2024
Luxury travellers are swapping planes for trains – here’s why
Nostalgia for a slower era has travellers returning to rail, and operators are responding by dialling up the glamour.
- Brook Turner
February 2022
Ghan owner says inflation won’t harm ‘tremendous’ demand for travel
Pent-up demand for travel will trump the rising cost of living as the tourism recovery ramps up into Easter, says the new American owner of Journey Beyond.
- Lucas Baird
April 2021
‘Bowled over’: Tourists flock to a boom town like Alice
The opening of borders, half-price air fares and the cooler temperatures means Alice Springs hotels, resorts and caravan parks are heaving.
- Fiona Carruthers
September 2019
Big investors swoop on hot tourism sector
Australia's $50 billion tourism sector is in the middle of a generational change, as entrepreneurs exit and big investors pile in.
- James Thomson
August 2019
Good times on the Ghan, 90 years after its maiden journey
Maybe it was the digital detox, maybe it was the new friends, or maybe it was just me falling in love with the romance of train travel.
- Natasha Boddy