subsidiary founded march 2000 2000 03 1 headquarters sydney australia 2 number of locations 3 ayers rock resort east kimberley wa mossman qld key people andrew williams ceo 3 parent indigenous land corporation website www.voyages.com.au voyages indigenous tourism australia pty limited commonly called voyages is a subsidiary business of the indigenous land corporation . 4 voyages manages tourism and resort facilities in the northern territory in western australia and in queensland australia . 2 in the northern territory voyages operates five venues at ayers rock resort including sails in the desert desert gardens hotel emu walk apartments the outback pioneer hotel and lodge and the ayers rock campground . in western australia voyages manages home valley station in the east kimberley region . in queensland voyages manages the mossman gorge centre in mossman far north queensland . history edit several resorts were built in and around yulara during the 1980s . following a chequered history of the tourism developments in the northern territory the ayers rock resort company limited was formed in 1992 and after a period of growth acquired resorts at alice springs and kings canyon and established profitability . in september 1997 general property trust purchased ayers rock resort company limited and changed its name to voyages hotels & resorts in march 2000 . a year later voyages purchased odyssey tours and safaris coconut beach rainforest lodge and ferntree rainforest lodge . luxury resort longitude 131 was opened in june 2002 under the voyages banner . 1 in july 2004 voyages acquired p & o australian resorts adding properties in tasmania queensland and on the great barrier reef . they then opened wrotham park lodge in september 2004 and acquired el questro homestead in july 2005 . in early 2006 voyages sold its odyssey tours and safaris to new south wales based australian wilderness tours . coconut beach rainforest lodge ferntree rainforest lodge jungle lodge and dive operation odyssey h20 were also sold a year later . 1 in july 2009 cradle mountain lodge was sold to the cradle mountain resort pty. ltd. also in july 2009 silky oaks lodge was purchased by australian based gondwana resorts pty ltd. september 2009 saw the sales of bedarra and dunk islands to hideaway resorts pty ltd. in november 2009 the lizard island heron island wilson island and king s canyon resort interests were sold to delaware north . 5 alice springs resort was handed over to alice springs resort enterprises pty ltd. in november and operated as the chifley alice springs resort . in 2010 general property trust sold voyages hotels & resorts to the indigenous land corporation ilc and the ilc formed a new subsidiary voyages indigenous tourism australia to operate the ilc s tourism portfolio . voyages established a training academy at the ayres rock resort to provide young indigenous people with accredited training in hospitality and the resort significantly increased its level of indigenous staff from 1 per cent of the workforce at time of acquisition to approximately 32 per cent of the workforce in 2015 . 6 in 2013 voyages sold longitude 131 to bailey lodges . 7 see also edit australia portal indigenous land corporation references edit a b c our journey voyages corporate . archived from the original on 31 august 2007 . retrieved 9 june 2008 . a b what is voyages . about us . voyages indigenous tourism australia . retrieved 20 august 2016 . executive team . voyages . 2016 . retrieved 20 august 2016 . subsidiaries . about us . indigenous land corporation . retrieved 20 august 2016 . search venues australia . delaware north . history . about us . indigenous land corporation . 2015 . retrieved 20 august 2016 . longitude 131 media kit pdf . bailie lodges . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title voyages indigenous tourism australia & oldid 738794913 categories companies based in sydney navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 september 2016 at 03 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view