Australian tour company AVG Travels is under fire for leaving thousands of customers in the lurch after going into liquidation. “You pack your bags, get insurance … and this is what I get in return,” said Pearl Rodriguez, who booked a trip to China. When Pearl visited the head office in melbourne today, the lights…
An Australian travel company selling heavily discounted international holidays has collapsed, leaving customers scrambling and their plans in disarray. Today, liquidators were appointed to melbourne-based agency AVG Travels, which promoted cut-price flight and tour packages to destinations across the world. It followed days of growing concern for customers who had reported their tours being cancelled…
More than a dozen staff learned at a work Zoom meeting last Tuesday that they no longer had jobs and the business had ceased trading. “Everyone was terminated on the spot. We were told that there was no more,” one employee, Jimmy*, who did not wish to share his real name, told news.com.au. Two days…
Australia’s longest running newspaper for the LGBTI community, the sydney Star Observer, has gone into voluntary administration with the title up for sale. In a post to the newspaper’s website, chairman of the Star Observer, Sebastian Rice, said: “The board saw an unexpected slowdown in our advertising clients paying their bills, which caused us to…