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Approaching February

Approaching February

The Travel Corporation Sees Emerging Trend of Solo Travellers First to Resume Travel   


The Travel Corporation (TTC) has seen an uptick in travel bookings by solo travellers for 2021, and has decided to highlight its special deals ranging from single supplement discounts to 100% waiver of Single Supplement fees. The attractive savings are offered across selected 2021 itineraries for its guided holiday brands Trafalgar and Insight Vacations and its luxury river cruise brand Uniworld

Recognizing the need to adapt quickly in a post-COVID-19 world as holiday travel gradually resumes, TTC has also unveiled a new well-being video to help promote further confidence and provide peace-of-mind for guests booking guided holidays with Trafalgar and Insight Vacations, ensuring travellers know that there is a new well-being director who will provide enhanced support to ensure adherence to all hygiene standards and will update them with the latest travel protocols guidelines. 

TTC's Well-being Directors are expertly trained in a three-step approach: 
Step 1: Always-on personal support and 24/7 assistance. 
Step 2: Supplier partner engagement and compliance. 
Step 3: Daily monitoring of distancing and hygiene standards. 
To know more about TTC's various holidays and more ways to save, please visit: www.ttc.com  or call TTC's travel advisors at +65 6922 595.
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New Beginnings

New Beginnings

Taste Summer in the Tropics      


You can't go past a cold beer and a bucket of prawns in summer, but have you tried a Cassowary Cocktail or a Tiger Prawn Schnitzel with pineapple and persimmon?

Summer is unfolding in Cairns & Great Barrier Reef when warm rain refreshes the landscape overnight and brings seasonal experiences unique to summer in the tropics. This means that luscious mangoes, unique native ingredients and signature seafood dishes are taking centre stage on menus across the region.
For a truly local drink, you can't go past the Cassowary Cocktail from 
Ochre Restaurant, located on the waterfront in Cairns. As colourful as its namesake, the Cassowary Cocktail's rich red comes from the cassowary's favourite food – local Davidson plum, which is blended with Hunter Distillery ginger liqueur, local finger lime and Smirnoff vodka. 

Savour the taste of the native plum a little longer by choosing Ochre Restaurant's Twice Cooked Pork Belly served with Davidson plum jam, Queensland scallops and cauliflower puree.

At Palm Cove, Nu Nu chef Nick Holloway is pairing tiger prawns fresh from the Gulf of Carpentaria with Mareeba pineapple and persimmons from Tolga. The Tiger Prawn Schnitzel is finished with a spicy Korean ssamjang that brings together the tropical fruit flavours for a bite of summer freshness. 

After ordering, enjoy the absolute Palm Cove beachfront view with a Pineapple Express – Sailor Jerry spiced rum, Falernum, fresh pineapple and lime, shaken and served with coconut sorbet. 

In the city at CC's Alfresco in Bailey, a Crystalbrook Collection Hotel, the signature beef steak has been paired with a light salad, ensuring the beef from Crystalbrook Station (west of Cairns) remains the hero of the dish while matching the casual, relaxed setting befitting a balmy Cairns evening. 

For more information go to cairnsgreatbarrierreef.com

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Year 2021, and preview on travel ideas

Year 2021, and preview on travel ideas

Dashingly Very Good Living VGD


 

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New Year and you would be looking at affordable luxe items, available at the website:

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10% Discount

with the code: 10Luxe

31 January 2021

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New Year Holiday

New Year Holiday

Lifestyle Retreats Introduces Pax Animi

Lifestyle Retreats, a hotel and resort boutique management company, is delighted to announce it has diversified its business to add a new division within the company - Pax Animi, complementing the existing offering of the company.   A Latin term meaning “peace of mind”, Pax Animi was founded to provide private villas and estates owners tailor-made management and marketing services to ensure their valuable assets are effectively maintained and marketed.

Pax Animi provides owners with complete peace of mind through full transparent management ensuring each asset is always in great shape for owners, their family, friends or paying guests and ultimately, maximize the long-term value of each villa or private estate.

Owners will benefit from being part of the widely respected Lifestyle Retreats brand; a brand that has more than 15 years of experience in focusing on attention to detail in managing hospitality assets. With a much higher level of service standard at the private villa or estate, the managed assets will be positioned at a premium level ahead of the competition. Ongoing training programs based on Lifestyle Retreats' Brand Service Standards will be tailored to suit each villa or private estate.

Owners will also feel at ease with the expertise provided in marketing their assets through optimized websites, dynamic press, social media and digital marketing campaigns, among other marketing strategies

https://www.lifestyleretreats.com/
 
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