Tourism

The Broome tourism sector is targeting growth beyond its itinerant seasonal appeal, with strategies being developed to attract additional tourists and residents.

The world’s two top ranked one-day cricket teams, Australia and India, are set to head to Perth’s WACA Ground for World Cup games against minnows Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates in the coming week.

Quintessential Resources is set to relist on the ASX tomorrow after morphing into technology incubator Yonder and Beyond, but plans by three travel businesses, including George Michalczyk's Motive Travel, to undertake a backdoor listing through Red Gum Resources have fallen through. Click through to also see the BNiQ listing of 26 WA backdoor listings.

Preparing for the projected growth in nature-based tourism requires strategic planning and consultation.

Perth Stadium could deliver more than $291 million and 1,300 jobs each year to the Western Australian economy, however it will need to start bidding for major events now and market the stadium’s potential ready for its 2018 opening.

The state government’s strategy to double the value of the tourism industry to $12 billion by 2020 is on track (at $8.3 billion), however, the peak industry body is calling on a higher investment in marketing.

The tourism industry has called for the state government to do more to take advantage of a sharp fall in occupancy and room rates in the state's accommodation sector.

The Emirates Group will be the first airline to bring the Airbus A380 to Perth on a regular schedule.

Crown Resorts has announced the resignation of director Ashok Jacob, who has had a long association with the Packer family.

Domestic tourists spent $4.6 billion while visiting Western Australia in the year to September, which was 12 per cent more than the previous year and three times the average increase nationally.

The City of Stirling has announced its intention to build a $26 million pool at Scarborough Beach, amid the final planning stages of the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority’s revitalisation of the area.

The number of international visitors to Western Australia each year has surpassed 800,000, with the state again recording the highest average trip expenditure per visitor for the country.

The state’s investment in Finbar’s Pelago property development may have become the subject of recent controversy, but some in Karratha’s small business community are in no doubt that the strategy is good for the Pilbara.

Margaret River’s annual food and wine festival has secured backing from the state government for at least another three years, with the funding commitment announced ahead of the event this weekend.

After two years battling bureaucracy, there’s light at the end of the tunnel for Catalina Adventures.

Tourism body Australia’s NorthWest has wrapped up a three-year campaign marketing the Kimberley region by winning a top prize at this year’s state tourism awards.

On-selling leisure getaways to those attending business conferences has proved lucrative for Cable Beach Resort.

Perth looks set to have its own indoor skydiving facility after Sydney-based leisure firm Indoor Skydive Australia announced it had signed an offer to lease a block of land in Belmont to construct a 4.2-metre vertical wind tunnel.

Broome’s Cable Beach Resort has taken top honours at this year’s tourism awards, also receiving recognition for its business and conference facilities, restaurant and catering services, and luxury accommodation.

A new festival in the Goldfields aims for long-term tourism opportunities.

Tourism Western Australia has announced a partnership with cummings&partners as its new strategic marketing and communications agency.

Online travel group Wotif.com has suffered a 15 per cent slide in its full year profit amid increasing costs and a fall in a accommodation bookings.

P&O Cruises has extended its winter cruising period in Western Australia, announcing a raft of cruises set for next year that it says will deliver more than $15 million in economic benefit to the state.

Economic recovery in the United Kingdom and the United States has helped drive a surge in overseas' travellers to Australia.

The look of the new 60,000-seat Perth stadium to be built in Burswood was unveiled today by Premier Colin Barnett, who guaranteed it would be open in time for the 2018 AFL season.

The Tourism Council WA has attributed the creation of 2,000 jobs in the sector to a major rise in domestic tourism.

Shares in online travel business Wotif have jumped 25 per cent after global giant Expedia launched a $700 million takeover bid.

Western Australia’s travel agents are set to be released from extra regulatory burdens, levelling the playing field between them and competing international agencies.

Brookfield Multiplex has kicked off works at the six-star, $568 million Crown Towers hotel in Burswood.

Tourists and business travellers will soon be spoilt for choice when it comes to luxury hotels in Perth, with a rush of new developments providing new options at five stars and above.

The number of hotel rooms in Perth is set to grow by at least 1,400 over the next three years after three major developments were confirmed this week.

BGC has unveiled details of its second major hotel project in Perth, which will add a further 224 rooms to the city's growing hotel development pipeline.