A COMPANY is seeking approval to offer jet-pack flying to the public and believes the thrill-seeker craze could be a tourism bonanza.

SOUTHERN bluefin tuna are swimming cash cows to NSW towns,  providing a cold season tourism boom between Sydney and Eden.

A MYSTERY girl has become the unwitting face of tourism in tropical Australia after her digital camera turned up on Bondi Beach.

THE airport departure tax should be halved for Kiwis, a proposal by Australia's peak tourism industry body says.

RETAIL trading hours should be unrestricted to allow Australia to compete with international cities for billions of dollars in tourism, government urged.

TOURISM and Major Events Minister George Souris has spent a large part of the school holidays in Greece promoting regional NSW as the ideal destination.

IT'S unlikely to feature in our next tourism campaign but the artificial reef in Port Botany is playing a vital part in supporting aquatic life.

AUSTRALIA should forget about presenting a sophisticated tourism image and embrace koalas and kangaroos, Premier Kristina Keneally says.

A HOP-on, hop-off ferry service and a round-the-Harbour walking track is at the heart of a new campaign to arrest Sydney's tourism slump.

NRL and tourism chiefs urge RailCorp to delay weekend trackwork on the Illawarra line to avoid disrupting thousands of Dragons fans.

A STOUSH is building between tourism bodies and state agencies over plans to build a hotel over the water in Darling Harbour.

WESTERN Sydney is enjoying a tourism bonanza, with attractions and events raking in $1.6 billion.