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 Southern Ocean Lodge wins hideaway of the year
Southern Ocean Lodge on South Australia’s Kangaroo Island has been named Hideaway of the Year in the 2012 Grand Awards issue of Andrew Harper's Hideaway Report. Andrew Harper's Hideaway Report is a monthly newsletter that reviews luxury hotels and resorts, under the pseudonym Andrew Harper the sole writer puts together candid reviews of the world’s best accommodation, paying full rates to ensure he receives no special treatment. For more than three decades, Andrew Harper has been vetting the world’s most luxurious travel products and sharing his uncensored insights with members of the elite Andrew Harper club.
Mr Harper awarded Southern Ocean Lodge his very highest honour for 2011, and described Kangaroo Island as a “wild and magnificent place with an evocative landscape”. Fellow Luxury Lodges of Australia members Wolgan Valley Resort & Spa (including a Special Recognition for Joost Heymeijer, GM) and The Louise were also Grand Awards recipients. And the winner is...
 We are proud to announce that Tailor Made Travel has won the CTC Explorer Award at the British Annual Canada Travel Awards 2011.
All tour operators in the UK are considered for this prestigious award that is given for the most exciting introduction of innovative and new Canada products.
Our Canada product team is extremely experienced and very knowledgeable and it is thanks to their hard work that we have been honoured in this way.
We look forward to the opportunity of offering you even more great holidays in Canada and throughout the rest of the world.
Total Solar Eclipse 2012  One of the world’s greatest phenomena, a total solar eclipse will take place on November 14th 2012. It will be visible from northern Australia and the South Pacific.
The partial eclipse will begin in the early hours of the 14th November 2012, visible from close to Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory. It will then cross Cairns and Port Douglas in Queensland, with the total eclipse occurring at 6:38am. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon and sun’s orbits align and then moon overlaps the sun, plunging part of the earth into darkness. A total solar eclipse is a rare occurrence, even rarer when visible from land. Tourism Tropical North Queensland is celebrating the occasion with a Solar Eclipse Marathon, beginning on Four Mile Beach in Port Douglas as soon as the corona (the halo effect during total eclipse) is broken by the sun re-emerging from behind the moon. Double Award for Maria Island Walk
 The Maria Island Walk has won the 2011 Export Award for Service along with 2011 Tasmanian Tourism Award for Best Adventure Tourism.
The Maria Island Walk is a four-day guided walk through an island national park that has also been nominated for the World Heritage list. Concentrating on small groups the tour takes in some of the convict history of the island, its wide variety of wildlife and serenity of the surroundings as well as gourmet dining each night. Charley Boorman’s Extreme Frontiers  Charley Boorman is set to embark on his wildest adventure yet as he seeks to travel across Canada on a motorbike. He’s previously ridden the length of Africa in the award winning series ‘Long Way Down’ and completed the 20,000 mile journey ‘Long Way Round’ eastwards from London to New York with Ewan McGregor.
The new series will track Charley’s marathon 10,300 mile journey across Canada during which he will travel across each of the Canadian provinces and take in 3 oceans, offering a unique insight into this beautiful country. Each part of the trip will uncover the incredible wilderness of Canada, its wonderful people and diverse culture.
On his previous expeditions Charley has crossed many countries as he travels from one point to another but this time he will have the opportunity to focus on and explore just one, the world’s second largest country.
Accompanied by series producer and director Russ Malkin, Charley will experience many of the great activities Canada has to offer, including hunting for icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland, riding the tidal bore in Nova Scotia, canoeing on the Bloodvein River, learning how to rodeo in Maple Creek, heli-mountain biking in British Columbia and trekking on the world’s third largest glacier in the Yukon. He will also attempt to climb 8,000m to the peak of Mount Fable in Alberta and overcome his claustrophobia when wreck diving in Lake Huron, Ontario.
Charley Boorman’s Extreme Frontiers is set to air on Channel 5 during the week commencing 28th November . The journey begins in Newfoundland and culminates in a huge biker convoy across Vancouver Island to Tofino on the Pacific Ocean.
 Awards for qualia, Hamilton Island
qualia has just won three awards at the 2011 HM Awards for Hotel and Accommodation excellence held in Sydney. qualia won the folllowing awards:
· Best Australian Lodge
· Best Resort
· Best Day Spa
A huge congratulations to all the team at qualia and everyone who works tirelessly behind the scenes!
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