Travel and Tourism

Just add water to the Channel Country and watch it spring to life. It's a silver lining of recent devastating flooding in the outback.

Dozens of locals and several conservation groups push back on plans to build the luxury eco-friendly retreat along the Cape to Cape trail in the state's South West.

Locals and tourists say they are disappointed by a plan to charge entry and camping fees at the Carnarvon blowholes in northern WA.

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is coming exclusively to Brisbane in 2026, as part of the event's 75th anniversary celebrations, with the city's 2032 Olympic and Paralympic hosting bid forming part of the show's attraction to Queensland.

Yet another Pacific airline is facing the prospect of going under, with Tonga's national carrier Lulutai Airlines this week searching for partners to help keep it afloat.

A couple who usually call the Sunshine Coast home spends more than a month in a tiny outback town after flooding. 

Port Vila is rebuilding after a magnitude-7.3 earthquake — and residents see an opportunity to increase the city's tourism appeal.

After a popular rest stop on WA's South Coast Highway was left looking like a landfill, locals and drivers are urging travellers to do better.

Emily booked a hotel ahead of her holiday to China, but when she arrived, she was refused check-in. She is just one of many foreign tourists who have taken to social media and booking platforms to vent their frustrations. 

The cost of flights is taking its toll on travellers on the Eyre Peninsula where a local council paying a high price for its airport is begging for more federal support.

Authorities say visitors are putting their lives in danger by going beyond the safety barriers to take photos at the Gap, a popular tourist site near Albany in WA. 

Bonza promised to shake up the aviation industry by offering cheap flights to destinations ignored by the bigger airlines. But it did not take long for the cracks to appear.

With the world's spotlight on tiny Morwell this week, some struggling businesses are hoping a small influx of media for the mushroom trial will bring a silver lining to an event that has otherwise cast a dark cloud over the town.

The state government's new tourism campaign shows a man riding an e-bike on a popular Gold Coast beach. But a cycling body says it sends the wrong message, as bikes on the sand pose a risk to beachgoers.

As tourism operators look to market Western Australia's South West as the ultimate "wellness tourism" destination, a developer is eyeing off the icy waters in Pemberton's historic pool for a Nordic-style floating sauna.

Queensland tourism officials are harking back to the 1980s with a campaign based on a cover of Madonna's hit Holiday to tempt people back to the state.

In Japan, it's called "shokunin", and it might be the reason why Tokyo is now the world's culinary capital.

Wrestling star and actor John Cena will headline a three-day WWE event in Perth in October that is being touted as a major tourism draw for Western Australia.

A luxury cruise ship will stop in Wallaroo in 2027, carrying almost 500 passengers, renewing the town's hope of benefiting from the cruise industry.

It's been a wet three months in the small communities of Hidden Valley and Paluma in north Queensland where the effects of a massive tropical low that bombed the region and brought widespread flooding in late January are still being felt.