Tourism and Leisure Industry

Australians are still suffering from budget airline Bonza's unreliability issues, one year after its launch.

It is the second time in two months the iconic monument, usually open 365 days a year, has been forced to close. 

Across Australia many motel restaurants once a hive of activity 50 years ago are being used as storage, conference rooms, or common rooms. But what changed?

Groovin the Moo is a key event on Bunbury's social calendar, but the announcement that this year's event will be cancelled has disappointed local music fans and businesses alike.

With the UN estimating that one in four people will be African by 2050, the annual Afrofuture festival is providing a glimpse into African music, fashion and culture and its influence on the world.

The parent company of the Ayers Rock Resort in Yulara has announced it is considering selling the famed Central Australian tourism business.

After rotting away for more than a decade, the tide may be turning for a once iconic Whitsundays holiday spot with whispers Lindeman Island will be back in action by 2025.

As traffic once again came to a standstill on the major highway between Perth and Margaret River today, Western Australia's transport minister promised the end was in sight for chronic congestion on the region's major roads.

Critics say free and open access to the beach is fundamental to our way of life. But many music lovers disagree, with 30,000 tickets for a festival at Coolangatta Beach selling out in a flash.

More than four years after the Black Summer bushfires incinerated millions of hectares on the east coast, traces of the event have faded but remain stark in people's memories. 

Emerging naturally due to pressure from the Great Artesian Basin, bathing in steaming hot springs dates back thousands of years. As the fifth-most popular tourist experience worldwide, could it be the next outback drawcard?

From Wednesday, people visiting Bali will be required to pay a tourist tax. However, the fee is relatively small and there are a few different ways you can pay.

Billionaire Clive Palmer's Queensland resort suddenly fired 125 employees in August, with the workplace tribunal criticising the handling of several terminations.

Cruises through the Red Sea and Suez Canal are being cancelled amid escalating conflict in the Middle East. A consumer rights lawyer says there are important things tourists should know.

The NT government has released a draft plan to manage crocodiles for the next 10 years, with the population currently over 100,000 in the jurisdiction.

An environmental advocate says the changing climate means its more important than ever to protect the reef from human damage. It comes after a private charter skipper is convicted of numerous maritime offences.

Crashing waves, beautiful boulders, emus and wombats help Squeaky Beach take out top spot on Australia's Top 10 best beaches.

The owners of an award-winning farm helping to preserve the world's dwindling number of Clydesdale horses claim council red tape is jeopardising their Central Victorian business.

A long-awaited hotel development at the home of the WA PGA Championship is "off track" according to a council report, despite $10 million in ratepayers' money being committed for early works.

As bike entries open for this year's Finke Desert Race, organisers blame cost of living pressures and fears about crime in Alice Springs for a decline in sign-ups.

This year was the grandest grand slam ever for the Australian Open but the Open won't bask in the afterglow of this year's tournament for long with multiple challenges ahead.

Many Australian bowls clubs are battling to stay open, but one establishment has bucked the trend by offering camping in the hope of developing a national trail for tourists.

Danggu Geikie Gorge National Park is expected to reopen to visitors just in time for the 2024 dry season after being all but washed away by last year's once-in-a-century floods.

When keen travellers Ken and Judy Vorwerk arrive in a new region, they use tourism brochures rather than the internet to help guide them to local experiences, and they are not the only ones.

Apollo Bay is a tourist mecca whose population explodes roughly 10 times in the peak visitor season. But locals and workers without deep pockets say they're struggling to stay, exacerbating the pressures on those who remain year-round.