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Trip.com Sees Surge in Aussie-China Travel Post Visa-Free News

Jun 20, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #APAC, #Aussie-China Travel Post Visa-Free News, #SUPER CHINA Campaign, #Sydney, #Trip.com, #Trip.com Sees Surge in Aussie-China Travel

SYDNEY, June 20, 2024– Following the recent announcement that China has included Australia in its visa-free list on 17 June, there has been a significant surge in interest in the former destination.

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Within just 30 minutes after the news was shared, Trip.com search data reveals that China-related keywords have seen an 80% increase among Australian users, highlighting the strong interest in this visa-free scheme.

The news also sparked an increase in bookings on Trip.com on the day of the announcement, which reported a 20% increase in bookings from Australia to China, as compared to the previous day.

From January to May this year, Trip.com has recorded a significant upward trajectory in flight search volumes from Australia to China, with a notable 154% increase in search volumes compared to the same period last year.

Travel to Australia: Strong Interest from APAC

Trip.com has also seen a significant increase in bookings to Australia, particularly from key markets in the Asia-Pacific region. Overall, booking data shows a more than 150% rise in bookings to the destination in Q1 2024 compared to Q1 2023, with China, Korea, and Japan being the main contributors to this growth.

In line with promoting Australia as a destination, Trip.com recently signed a strategic partnership with Tourism Western Australia. This strategic partnership aims to promote Western Australia’s unique and captivating tourism experiences across key Asian markets, including China.

Interest in China Rises with Visa-Free Arrangements

Interest in China has been increasing globally since the country expanded its unilateral visa-free travel policy, with 14 countries and regions added to the arrangement from November 2023 till present. In Q1 2024, there was a significant 400% growth in inbound travel to China, driven by the benefits of such visa-free policies.

To encourage travellers from Australia to explore China, Trip.com launched its “One Flight Away to China” campaign. Travellers can take advantage of special product promotions, such as flights, hotels, and attractions. This includes promo codes offering up to $200 off flights to China and $50 off hotel stays.

Trip.com has introduced several initiatives to make travel to China more convenient for visitors. The Trip.com app features a ‘China Travel Guide’, providing practical information on navigating the country. This includes details on entry requirements, internet access, payment, transportation, and more, accompanied by easy-to-follow tips and explanatory videos.

Besides this, Trip.com has also launched an array of products, including a free Shanghai Express Transit Tour, and curated package tours as part of its SUPER CHINA Campaign. It’s also partnering with a leading digital payment platform to help simplify payments for international travellers in China.

Business

BEDGEAR® Opens its First-Ever Flagship Location in Australia at Warringah Mall, Sydney

Jun 18, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #Australia, #BEDGEAR Founder & CEO Eugene Alletto, #BEDGEAR®, #BEDGEAR® Opens its First-Ever Flagship Location, #Ross Stuart, #SWestfield Westfield Warringah Mall, #Sydney, #Warringah Mall, #YDNEY

SYDNEY, June 18, 2024 — BEDGEAR®, renowned in the sleep industry for pushing boundaries to offer innovative sleep solutions for those who aspire to Wake Ready™, has arrived in Sydney, Australia.

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BEDGEAR’s newest experiential store, located in Sydney’s trendy northern beaches neighborhood, marks the company’s first outpost in Australia.

The innovative 120-square-metre space inside the esteemed Westfield Westfield Warringah Mall, is designed to be more than a standard mattress store.

This brand experience store offers consumers the opportunity to be personally fitted for their complete modular sleep system, experience the brand’s interactive retail displays, and shop BEDGEAR’s lifestyle products including pet beds, BEDGEAR Baby to be rolled out next month, and more.

All of the brand’s products are engineered for better sleep, tailored to individual body types, sleep positions, and temperature preferences.

“As an Australia resident, I am incredibly proud to bring BEDGEAR to my home front and to share our passion of providing innovative bedding solutions with our community,” said BEDGEAR President of Asia Pacific, Ross Stuart.

“Our goal is to support our dedicated retailers and enhance customers’ in-store experience by showcasing out brand in a bigger and better way.”

The Australian flagship store includes BEDGEAR‘s lineup of high-technology mattresses and bases, complete with pillows, sheets, and other top-of-bed accessories.

Designed to showcase BEDGEAR‘s many evolving concepts in sleep, the store includes several groundbreaking in-store displays seen throughout the brand’s extensive retail distribution.

With BEDGEAR’s Wake Ready™ messaging prominently displayed, the brand continues to redefine sleep standards, encouraging consumers to interact with and learn about the products while offering the option for a personalized fitting experience.

“We want to be in Australia,” said BEDGEAR Founder & CEO Eugene Alletto. “It is the perfect location for what we want to accomplish internationally and how we want to interact with the communities we serve. We aim to continue our expansion in Australia in the coming years.”

Business

EcoFlow Offers More On-the-Road Power for Adventurers with Launch of New Alternator Charger

Jun 10, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #A leading portable power and eco-friendly energy solutions company, #Alternator Charger in Australia, #EcoFlow, #EcoFlow Offers, #New Alternator Charger, #On-the-Road Power Solutions, #Sydney

SYDNEY, June 10, 2024  — EcoFlow, a leading portable power and eco-friendly energy solutions company, will expand its suite of On-the-Road Power Solutions with the launch of the new Alternator Charger in Australia on June 10th — an industry-first providing travelers and outdoor enthusiasts with fast charging capabilities by harnessing their excess vehicle alternator energy.

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3-in-1 Charger, Jump Starter and Battery Maintainer

Beyond an 800W alternator charger, the EcoFlow Alternator Charger also serves as an emergency jump starter for vehicles and includes a built-in battery maintainer to enhance the longevity of the vehicle starter battery.

With demand for accessible energy and off-grid comfort across the RV, overlanding and van life communities, there is a need for unrestricted access to electricity that isn’t dependent on fixed power locations or gas generators.

Connecting directly to a vehicle’s starter battery, the Alternator Charger installs easily and allows users to drive and re-charge select EcoFlow devices and DELTA series power stations[1] simultaneously, ensuring endless energy and providing home-like comfort for any adventure.

With an unprecedented 800W of power output and DC-to-DC charging, the Alternator Charger efficiently replenishes the DELTA 2 (1kWh worth of power) in just 1.3 hours while in transit, 8X faster than the 12V cigarette charger in the vehicle.

The Alternator Charger can back-feed the vehicle battery from a connected portable power station, allowing it to operate as a jump starter to prevent users from being stranded. Its battery maintainer also ensures the vehicle starter battery stays in peak condition consistently.

Pass-through charging feature allows simultaneous operation of onboard appliances and devices while harnessing solar energy from any connected solar panels — an unparalleled convenience compared to conventional generators. With more of customers looking for ways to enhance off-grid living, the EcoFlow On-the-Road power solutions provide them with home-like comfort while traveling.

EcoFlow’s On-the-Road Power Solution

The Alternator Charger builds on EcoFlow’s expanding suite of user-friendly power solutions designed to make the on-the-road journey feel like home. It joins EcoFlow’s On-the-Road Power Solution lineup, which includes:

  • DELTA Series: Top suite of portable power stations with a range of storage capacities, including DELTA 2, DELTA 2 Max and DELTA Pro, with electric and solar charging capabilities for true off-grid energy freedom and comfort. The Alternator Charger with DELTA series can be used for a wide range of vehicles, including cars and motorhomes.
  • Solar Panels: Full range of rigid and portable solar panels letting users harness the sun’s power for endless energy whether at home or on-the-road. No gas or maintenance required means energy to power user adventures that’s clean with no fuel costs.
Business

Vantage Markets announces TradingView broker integration; unlocks more seamless trading options for Australian clients

Apr 3, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #Australian clients, #CFD, #Contracts for Difference, #ETFs, #Jack Kelly, #Sydney, #TradingView broker integration, #Vantage, #Vantage Markets

SYDNEY, April 3, 2024 —Vantage (or “Vantage Markets”), the multi-asset trading platform for Contracts for Difference (CFDs) on Forex, Commodities, Indices, and Shares, has announced a closer partnership with popular charting platform TradingView, completing a broker integration which provides traders greater convenience and easier access to trade directly on the TradingView’s website.

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The integration allows Vantage clients to conveniently trade on the TradingView web and desktop platforms, with the availability of TradingView’s tools and charts. This feature is available for CFD trades on multiple instruments, including forex, gold, oil, indices, shares, ETFs, bonds and others.

Clients can now simply connect their Vantage and TradingView accounts and trade directly from the charts.

Besides having a dedicated broker profile page [link] on Tradingview’s website, this partnership opens yet another avenue for Vantage to engage and interact with clients by providing access to educational trading articles, and market analysis.

“Tradingview is a trusted brand for more than 50 million traders around the world – including many of our own clients – and we are pleased to be announcing a closer partnership with them today,” says Jack Kelly, Head of Sales, Vantage Australia. “With this broker integration, we will go above and beyond providing their charting and analysis tools on our trading platforms.”

“We hope to be able to reach our clients where they are at – whether they are trading from our platforms or Tradingview’s web platform – while providing greater convenience for our clients to trade easily and gain valuable insights into the market.”

Education

COVID-relief bursaries and scholarships for Indian students open opportunity for Study in Australia

Nov 12, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Brisbane, #Charles Sturt University, #COVID-relief bursaries, #Indian students, #Masters Degrees, #Melbourne, #scholarships, #Study in Australia, #Sydney

Sturt University has introduced attractive upfront discounts for Indian students through its bursary and scholarship payments. This will allow a significant reduction in course fees for its November 2020 intake. Students will also be eligible for a COVID-19 Student Relief bursary valued at AUD $2800 that can be coupled with other bursary and scholarship offers to value up to AUD $10800.

Study Group’s Director for Australia, Alex Chevrolle warmly welcomed the news and said: “We understand that this has been a uniquely challenging time for students and universities, but it is clear that Indian students remain committed to their aims of studying in Australia and the opportunities which come with that choice.

Our partner Charles Sturt University has a long history of welcoming and supporting Indian students who go in to receive an excellent education at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and beyond that into successful careers. These generous bursaries and scholarships will enable even more talented Indian students to take up that opportunity and I would encourage anyone hopeful of studying at Charles Sturt University Study Centres to seriously look into these options for November this year.”

Eligible students will receive a bursary or scholarship based on their offer letter. On the second page of that letter, the number of subjects enrolled in will be mentioned and the year’s tuition fee which is used to calculate the discount. Successful students then pay the adjusted fee, along with the Student Services and Amenities Fee. The bursary letter confirms the figure to be discounted from the amount provided in the offer letter. All students wishing to study in Australia will be required to pay for Overseas Student Health Care (OSHC).

Indian students can also avail a postgraduate academic merit scholarship of up to AUD $8000, plus a COVID-19 Relief bursary valued at AUD $2800 that is distributed over seven subjects. The eligibility for this academic merit scholarship is categorized at three levels and includes:

2.2 GPA / 55% or higher in Bachelor degree to receive AU $4000, 2.4 GPA / 60% or higher in Bachelor degree to receive AU $6,000, and 2.6 GPA / 65% or higher in Bachelor degree to receive AU $8,000.

Indian students can also apply for an academic merit scholarship for an undergraduate degree to receive a bursary of up to AUD$8000 and a COVID-19 Relief Bursary worth AUD$ 2800. This offer is applicable to offshore students confirming their offer to study an undergraduate degree commencing 9 November 2020. To secure the bursary they must accept the offer to study by 16 November 2020.

The Charles Sturt University Study Centres offers a two-year, 12 subject Masters Degrees with eligibility to apply for post-study work rights along with a 12-week post-study internship and graduate placement opportunities. The internship is offered by Study Group Australia Pty Limited, who operate the Charles Sturt University Study Centres in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney under a service agreement with Charles Sturt University under CRICOS Provider Code: 00005F.

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dbExpress Drivers Now Support RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney

Jun 15, 2020 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #dbExpress, #RAD Studio 10.4 Sydne, #Sydney

Prague, Czech Republic: Devart, a recognized vendor of database management software, ALM solutions and data providers, released updated versions of its dbExpress drivers. The Czech vendor stays on top of software development, thus the new drivers got support for RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney.

The recent update of dbExpress drivers include:

Support for RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney — applies to dbExpress Drivers for Oracle, SQL Server, InterBase and Firebird, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
Support for JSON data type — another improvement in dbExpress Driver for MySQL.

Devart dbExpress Driver is a lightweight, cross-platform interface for accessing data from SQL database servers in Delphi and C++ applications. The key benefits of Devart cross-platform dbExpress technology are direct access to database servers using native libraries and data type mapping between database and Delphi data types.

For more information about Devart dbExpress Driver, please visit — https://blog.devart.com/dbexpress-drivers-with-support-for-rad-studio-10-4.html