Welcome to the low season. It’s time to dust off those 2017 strategies, review results and start preparing for the next 12 months

Museums are important tourist attractions, often filled with exciting exhibits and important history. However, they are a little different to other attractions in the way that they’re not likely to reach capacity too quickly. This is because they are popular year-round, and tend to be constant fixtures people take their time to get around to visiting.

In the tourism trade, one of the perks of the job is getting to work with wonderful, colourful people from all walks of life.

TripAdvisor can be a tour or attraction operator’s greatest joy – or deepest pain.

As we head into the summer holiday period here in the Southern Hemisphere, it is time to to cope with the breakneck speed of the high season.

Back in the ‘90s, a time when your mobile was the size of a small country (and cost as much to run) and you clipped your walkman to your Adidas Tear Away pants, there was the most amazing video game called Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

Sydney, Australia: Sydney-based technology start-up Booking Boss took home silver for the Specialised Tourism Services category at the coveted NSW Tourism Awards.

While the internet has brought us online check-ins, Uber, 24/7 shopping and countless other ways to make our lives easier and achieve our goals faster, the convenience also means that we enter our financial and personal data countless times every week.

Sydney, Australia: Renee Welsh, CEO of tourism startup Booking Boss, took home the Entrepreneur of the Year award at the inaugural Women in Travel Awards on November 17.

The strains of Christmas bells are an alarm clock to the Australian travel industry.