Reporter makes gaffe after Melbourne company pays passage to India

Yesterday's Advertiser travel section featured this article by Jamie Walker describing a trip to Mumbai/ Bombay.

The author tells us

Among the biggest names in Bollywood right now are willowy Preity Zinta and hunky love interest Saif Ali Khan in the hottest show in town, Salaam Namaste. It's a love story – of course – filmed in Sydney.

Wrong - it was filmed in Melbourne, or reasonably close thereto, as a quick check of IMDb would have revealed.

This all sounds trifling until we read that

The author travelled to Mumbai with The Captain's Choice Tour, courtesy of Croydon Travel, Melbourne, www.captainschoice.com.au .

A Melbourne company paying for a trip to India for someone who appears to believe that Sydney is the only place in Australia of any consequence?

What do Ron Walker and his Commonwealth Games booster mates think? Or is Melbourne receiving enough publicity at the moment for them to ignore a slip such as this?