Aussies Travelling More Like Asians: Zuji

[peter991]

Aussies travelling more like Asians: ZUJI

In a recent report released by ZUJI Online Travel, it revealed that Aussies who booked travel online were travelling for shorter periods to long-haul destinations with very short notice – much like the Asian traveller.

The April to June 2007 report, based on online bookings trends on ZUJI travel sites in the Asia Pacific, showed that Aussie travellers are beginning to travel in different patterns.

“It’s a frantic approach to travel that challenges the traditional idea of a well-earned, restful holiday, and more closely mirrors how Asians tend to travel,” said Peter Smith, ZUJI Australia’s General Manager.

“Just as Aussies like the speed of booking and confirming their hotels and flights online, they’re also in a hurry to get where they’re going. They spend quality, not quantity, time in their chosen destination and then rush back home again and recover from their jet lag at work.”

The recent report showed that 36% of international trips were for a week or less, and that a little over one in ten Aussies booked flights in the same week that they travelled.

Along the Eastern seaboard, all state capitals recorded more than a quarter of residents travelling overseas for a week or less, with Sydneysiders taking the shortest trips.

Adelaide came in on the other side of the scale, coming out as the city whose residents recorded the smallest number of holidays under a week, with almost half taking breaks for up to two weeks.

Sydneysiders and Brisbanites surprisingly recorded the same top international destinations of travels, with number one going over to Auckland, and Bangkok, London and Singapore rounding out the top four.

[Anthony_Mustang]

Pretty much a sign of the times really.

If you can take more than a week off at a single time your probably lucky now days. Just to much pressure to work for the good of the company.

At present I'm owed 14 weeks leave and have no chance at all of actually taking it

[elkangorito]

Pretty much a sign of the times really.

If you can take more than a week off at a single time your probably lucky now days. Just to much pressure to work for the good of the company.

At present I'm owed 14 weeks leave and have no chance at all of actually taking it

I couldn't agree more.

I had to resign from one company in order to take a holiday. Prior to resigning, I gave them 3 months notice of when I wanted to take holidays...it was even a time that was considered 'off-peak' for the company but still my boss wouldn't give them to me. I told them to 'stick it'.

PS I'm an Australian now living in the LOS.

[tw25rw]

Aussies travelling more like Asians: ZUJI

In a recent report released by ZUJI Online Travel, it revealed that Aussies who booked travel online were travelling for shorter periods to long-haul destinations with very short notice – much like the Asian traveller.

More and more Australians are also Asians...

[Anthony_Mustang]

Pretty much a sign of the times really.

If you can take more than a week off at a single time your probably lucky now days. Just to much pressure to work for the good of the company.

At present I'm owed 14 weeks leave and have no chance at all of actually taking it

I couldn't agree more.

I had to resign from one company in order to take a holiday. Prior to resigning, I gave them 3 months notice of when I wanted to take holidays...it was even a time that was considered 'off-peak' for the company but still my boss wouldn't give them to me. I told them to 'stick it'.

PS I'm an Australian now living in the LOS.

He He I resigned last week after 12 years at the same job

Booked my flight for October so many never go back

[toptuan]

Pretty much a sign of the times really.

If you can take more than a week off at a single time your probably lucky now days. Just to much pressure to work for the good of the company.

At present I'm owed 14 weeks leave and have no chance at all of actually taking it

...and the above points are some of the top reasons why I quit my high-powered and well-paid job of 20 years. When I finally worked my way up in management hoping to enjoy some of the perks, the hard-earned five weeks of vacation per year were impossible to take. Taking a vacation of anything over three days meant coming back to a nightmare of problems and being "buried" under the pile.

Then I decided life was too short.

So, I got out of debt, left the USA with two suitcases, and now teach three days a week in Thailand. I save 65% of my salary for international travel for vacations, (and yeah, that last-minute travel style works great!), and am surrounded by warm friends and "mai pen rai" bosses.

It's like being retired, but with an income and something worth-while to do.

Edited September 15, 2007 by toptuan

[Nignoy]

Maybe a governing factor in the change in the australians attitude to travel, I discovered this through my experience as an employer in Brisbane, because of union power, workers are able to take sick days off without a Doctors certificate, and if there is a long weekend in the offing so much better!! chuck in a couple of sickies and you have got a week off, we used to dread april and may!! cheap 6 day package deals for Bali and Thailand, we used to lose upto 25% of the workforce to the 3 day Asian Flu and because most of them were specialised language guides, a severe loss of business was the end result!! When the recievers were called in and 85 jobs were lost they wondered WHY Nignoy

[khall64au]

Maybe a governing factor in the change in the australians attitude to travel, I discovered this through my experience as an employer in Brisbane, because of union power, workers are able to take sick days off without a Doctors certificate, and if there is a long weekend in the offing so much better!! chuck in a couple of sickies and you have got a week off, we used to dread april and may!! cheap 6 day package deals for Bali and Thailand, we used to lose upto 25% of the workforce to the 3 day Asian Flu and because most of them were specialised language guides, a severe loss of business was the end result!! When the recievers were called in and 85 jobs were lost they wondered WHY Nignoy

When did you leave Oz, Nignoy?

Workers badly done by as managers strip rights

September 13, 2007

COMPELLING evidence has emerged of how quickly bosses in retail and hospitality took advantage of WorkChoices to strip pay and conditions from their employees.

A landmark study has examined every new collective agreement in those two industries in the first nine months of the law last year and found most removed penalty rates and overtime, increased managerial power and gave inadequate compensation.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/09/...9276809758.html