PropertyO News
Property investment, Feb 2010
Harbour high-rise for sydney?
The Australian Premier, Kristina Keneally, has warmly endorsed a plan to build one of Sydney's biggest hotels more than 100 metres out over the harbour, insisting it will not create a precedent other developers will seek to follow...
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Virgin blue uses blackberry to lure clients
After building its brand on the wallets of leisure travellers, Virgin Blue is now changing its trajectory to lure business travellers with its new mobile phone travel application...
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
‘women-only' loo takes flight
Japan's All Nippon Airways, which has asked passengers to visit the toilet before boarding to help the environment, said Tuesday it will fit its jets with a women-only lavatory...
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
Air fares cut to peru
The Peruvian government has announced a plan to cut air fares and hotel rates for travellers in a bid to boost tourism even though the country's biggest lure, Machu Picchu, is still closed to visitors...
Tue, Feb 23, 2010
Making tracks to vientiane
The Eastern & Oriental Express will make its first foray into Laos next week. The train, an offshoot of the Venice Simplon Orient-Express, will leave Bangkok on Tuesday for the three-day journey...
Tue, Feb 23, 2010
Oz's biggest airline retrains staff
Australia's biggest low-cost airline has revealed it has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past year retraining staff to reduce the number of complaints about bad customer service...
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
Cruising on a sunday afternoon
Size isn't everything, at least when it comes to cruising. That's the view of Yachts of Seabourn, whose Seabourn Odyssey was dwarfed by the Queen Victoria at Melbourne's Station Pier this morning...
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
Czech republic restarts major project
Multi Development Czech Republic has announced the restart of construction of its major inner-city development in Ostrava after a one-year break due to the financial crisis. This follows Multi's recent announcement of closing the EUR 99 mln funding deal through a syndicated loan from four banks...
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
Airfares to skyrocket
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce says it is inevitable airfares will have to increase in 2010 from "unprecedented low levels"...
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
Aus-china flights on the up
A sharp increase in flights between Australia and China is on the horizon as a result of a new air services agreement between the two countries...
Tue, Feb 16, 2010