The Australian travel industry’s monarch of luxury hospitality, Lynne Ireland, has been appointed as Global Sales Director – Australia & Oceania for Meliá Hotels International, LATTE can reveal.

A group of leading luxury suppliers has wound up its 2023 ‘Best of the Best’ series of events which were held in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne in recent weeks.

Virgin Limited Edition’s Makepeace Island private sanctuary in Noosa, Queensland is offering a Stay 3 Nights & Pay 2 Nights ‘Opening Special’. The promotion is valid for all new bookings that are deposited before 15 March, 2019 for travel before 20 December, 2019.

US-based B2B travel company Island Destinations Travel Group has expanded its core program of upmarket hotels branded under the IDx moniker, to include packaged itineraries, dubbed ID Ultimate Itineraries. In operation for 35 years, the business features a portfolio of luxury hotels in “sand and sun” locales around the world, including the Caribbean, Mexico, the Maldives, French Polynesia, Hawaii and Asia.