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Qantas has brought in a new self service check-in technology that will see the end of check in staff turning a blind eye to passenger’s overweight baggage.

Interstate travellers will be able to take advantage of a new round of cut price fares as Virgin Blue and Qantas go up against each other in a renewal of the battle for the domestic travel dollar.

Queensland Rail has been forced to defend it’s safety policy after allegations of the zero harm approach encouraging drunken loutish behaviour.

A proposal currently being put to the Federal government would see Australians get a tax rebate for taking holidays within their own country.

Philippine Airlines will make it’s first flight from Brisbane today after introducing twice-weekly services from Brisbane to Manila as part of their major expansion into Australia.

The problem of how to dispose of toilet waste from caravans, motor homes and boats might not be a primary concern to most holiday makers to Queensland. But it is to the grey nomad brigade and other travellers who frequent the roads of Queensland for thei

The Far North Queensland tourism sector was saved last year by backpackers. The backpackers contingent are almost exclusively comprised of the youth market which grew by 3

Most Gold Coast business considered that Japanese tourism was dead. But for the first time in a long time, the downward trend of visitors from Japan to the Gold Coast was reversed, with last year showing an increase of 8.4 per cent.

Falling room rates and lower occupancies in 2009 has seen Australia’s top hotels lose out on an estimated $270 million in revenue.

Hastings street in Noosa has for many years enjoyed a reputation for luxury accommodation but more recently some of the hotels have been the subject of complaints by guests.

More QantasLink flights will be introduced to operate across regional Queensland from early April 2010, Qantas’s regional arm said yesterday.

Korean Air and Tourism Australia have been successful in negotiating a deal resulting in the production and placement of a new advertising campaign in Korea that promotes Australia as a major destination.

Lark Quarry in western Queensland has long been renowned for it’s dinosaur fossils and imprints of a dinosaur stampede, understood to be the only recorded footprints of such a stampede known to exist on earth.

The North Queensland Town of Mission Beach has released a cheeky advertising campaign to rival any with the slogan "Get High, Get Wet, Get laid"

Queensland Holidays are gaining in popularity again and Tourism Queensland is confident that it has a great deal to do with their promotion of “The Best Job in the World” which was won 3 months ago by British man Ben Southall.

Tourism Queensland has said that international interest in Queensland holidays is on the rise.