Itinerary Guide

TravelSecure  the Australian Government’s new travel security website, which provides information on the security measures in place at Australian airports. Its purpose is to help travellers prepare for their journey and clear the security checks at the airport quickly and easily.

While air travel is the inital focus of this site, future versions will also include information on travel by sea. It will feature tips on how travellers can clear security checks more efficiently. The site will also be available in Arabic, Chinese,Japanese and Spanish.

TravelSecure

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Australia’s major branding initiative, Brand Australia, was launched in 1995 by the Australian Tourism Commission (also known as ATC, the predecessor to today’s Tourism Australia), breaking new ground in how the country was branded to the outside world.
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But it’s not just Australian travellers to the US who will feel the pain of the weaker currency – the dollar has also fallen against the traditionally strong euro and British pound, as well dropping against the currencies of popular tourist destinations such as Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia.

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Tags: British pound, currency, dollar, euro

Cartagena

Great food cities tend to have a few things in common — a history steeped in culinary arts, a bounty of exceptional ingredients and a handful of cocky young chefs at the helm.

 And what you find is a city far more exotic, but no less adroit at catering to sophisticated palates — 200-year-old Spanish colonial mansions refurbished with crisp interiors, trendy bistros that elevate plantains to haute fare, and theatrical rooms buzzing with dignitaries in starched collars and Windsor knots sipping minty rum drinks. 

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Cartagena

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If you’ve shared a few beers, you know you’ve probably made a best friend.  Here’s a list of the 10 best (and five worst) countries in the world for beer lovers to visit.

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Tags: beer, best, countries, worst

500 Places to See Before They Disappear  enables passionate travelers and the eco-conscious to learn about and plan a visit to see rare cultural, historic, and natural places before they are irrevocably altered or even gone forever.

Sites include the pyramids of Giza, threatened by urban sprawl, the southern Florida Everglades ecosystem degenerating under agriculture and development and the Dead Sea, which Hughes says could dry up “thanks to the diverting of the rivers that feed it”.

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Tags: 500 Places to See Before They Disappear, Dead Sea, pyramids of Giza, southern Florida Everglades

Mauritius

 The ocean’s lush islands, which were sighted off the bow by early Portuguese explorers on their way home from the Indies 500 years ago, are once again being hailed for their charm and celebrated as gardens of Eden. Mauritius, the Seychelles, the Maldives and Zanzibar – the new playgrounds of the rich, famous and well-informed – have artfully blended culture and history with a propensity to pamper, moving them to near-top of the list of the world’s most desirable destinations.  
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