Global Ballooning Australia celebrates 30 years of operation in Melbourne where hot air ballooning in Australia was born (1858). Balloons are now iconic to the city of Melbourne as it’s the only major city in the world where you can commercially balloon over.
Global Ballooning Australia aims to take the ballooning medium around the world. The company’s Founder Kiff Saunders spent his early years training and consulting new hot air ballooning start-ups in China, New Zealand, and Nepal.
The company has achieved great success around the world, from putting up a balloon at the North Pole to flying in the Himalayas to designing, owning and flying Patricia Piccinini’s infamous Skywhale during its global tour.
Today Global Ballooning Australia is Victoria’s largest hot air balloon company, accepted into the Victorian Tourism Awards Hall of Fame in 2016.