Some old brochures/images of Aussie youth market travel products form late 1970's and early 1980s.

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

15. Aussie tour guide –
Alice Springs – late
1970s.

16. Where the product ideas
germinated.
London Aussie.
Late 1970s
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17. 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

18. 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 80s
By David Dunstan
http://books.publishing.monash.edu/apps/bookworm/view/Australians+in+Britain%3A+The+
Twentieth-Century+Experience/137/xhtml/chapter15.html