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Most of the state?s tourism destinations including the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Fraser Coast, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Agnes Water, 1770, Whitsundays, Mackay, Townsville, Cairns and Tropical North Queensland, Southern Downs and Granite Belt and Toowoomba are accessible and tourism operations are open and ready to welcome visitors, including beaches, island resorts, accommodation providers, tour operators and attractions.

The modern business traveller takes items worth nearly ?1,500 in their airplane carry-on bags, according to new figures released by Hotels.com???

Following increasing demand from agents for catered ski accommodation in snow-sure resorts, Inghams has introduced two new chalets in Les Arcs.

AFFORDABLE CAR Hire reports that dynamic packaging holidays offer the best method of keeping car rental as cheap as possible for clients, with fully inclusive prices starting from ?7 per day.

TIPTO has announced the dates and venues of its 2011 roadshows, which take place from next month through to June.

Red Sea Holidays?has added?three new exclusive properties to its 2011 brochure, the five-star?Makadi Spa Hotel in?Makadi Bay which opens in May; the five-star?Sunwing Waterworld Makadi, whch also opens in May; and the four-star?Grand Marina?in Hurghada.

David Carlaw, Head of Faraway Product, Premier Holidays, comments on the diving ban due to hit Thailand:

Mark Warner has announced new additions for summer with the introduction of five new beach resorts (in Greece, Portugal, Sardinia and Turkey), specialist tennis weeks and British Airways flights to several resorts including Sardinia, Corsica, Faro and Bodrum.