Australia. Youth market travel.Early to Mid 1980s.

Aussie tour guide – Alice Springs – late 1970s.

Where the product ideas germinated.

London Aussie.

Late 1970s

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In the early 1980s, the company expanded its operations into the United States where it coined the name Decker Homes for its Bristol Lodekka buses. The company also ran trips from Sydney to London from 1980, with the final stretch using a converted Sydney double-decker. Coaches were introduced in the mid-1980s. primarily for winter ski holidays. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topdeck

The Australian community press in London was reborn in the 1970s through catering to the needs of a new generation of mobile and youthful travellers. Australians were given the opportunity by cheap air travel to undertake in unprecedented numbers extended work and travel experiences in Europe in the 1970s and 80s. Mobile and wealthy through casual and temporary labour, both skilled and unskilled, the Australian immigrant community became well defined as part of a geographic enclave and the city’s extensive cultural mosaic. This essay explores the development of the Australian community press and associated industries in these years and expressions of travel and tourism, popular culture, work and leisure.

‘WE CAME ON A HOLIDAY LIKE YOU’THE AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY PRESS IN LONDON IN THE 1970s AND 80sBy David Dunstan

http://books.publishing.monash.edu/apps/bookworm/view/Australians+in+Britain%3A+The+Twentieth-Century+Experience/137/xhtml/chapter15.html