Watch out for travel gotchas
Chicago Tribune
DOCUMENTATION: You know the basics -- you need government-issued picture ID to get on a plane, and you need a passport or equivalent to get in most other countries you're visiting or to get back into the US at the end of your trip.
The ABCs of sustainable tourism
Mother Nature Network
A combination of a growing international appetite for unique, place-centered travel (who wants to spend hours in a plane to vacation where it smells, tastes and looks like home?) along with some unscrupulous, or sometimes ignorant tour companies and ...
Mother Nature Network
8 tourism slogans: Good, bad and blah
msnbc.com
(Courtesy of Virginia Tourism Corp.) By Tracy Stewart, Frommers.com It's a tough task to capture the appeal of a destination and plug 'em into a punchy slogan. Some slogans become real hits, and -- in the case of "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" ...
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NextAdvisor.com Announces 2012 Travel Rewards Credit Card Analysis
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- NextAdvisor.com, a leading consumer information website, has announced the results of its 2012 Travel Rewards Credit Card Analysis. This independent analysis surveyed major travel reward credit ...
Family Spring Break Vacation Deals
ABC News
It's a peak travel time. Translation: it's expensive. But there are still deals if you know where to look. The trick to an affordable family getaway during spring and all year long, is to take a look at what everyone around you is doing -- your ...
ABC News
Tuesday Travel Ticker: Half Dome hikers strike back
Los Angeles Times
NYC & Company, New York City's tourism and marketing organization, is going after the youth market. It has announced a new annual goal of 55 million visitors by 2015, and will focus on attracting the youth market (ages 18 to 29) with plans to draw an ...
Los Angeles Times
Family Travel Magazine Announces Poll Results: Hotel Amenities That Families ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Family Travel Magazine, the new family travel website recently launched by popular Boston mom blogger Jodi Grundig, has just announced the results of a reader poll of hotel amenities that families really want. The results were surprising.
eXperticity Brings Value of Experts to Travel Goods Industry
MarketWatch (press release)
SALT LAKE CITY, Mar 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- After enjoying a warm response at the recentTravel Goods Show in Las Vegas, eXperticity continues to focus on helping companies that specialize in travel related goods reach and interact with highly ...
TU Group makes travel dreams come true for sick child and lucky contest winner!
MarketWatch (press release)
RICHMOND, British Columbia, Mar 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- TU Group and TravelUnderwriters are making travel dreams come true through their Wish for a Wish contest! The contest supports the Make-A-Wish Foundation(R) of Canada, raising funds to send a ...
Global Travel & Tourism Industry Reviewed in New Euromonitor International ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, Mar 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 2012 is shaping up to be a challenging year for the travel industry where despite the strong economies in the emerging markets, uncertainty in Europe has the potential to disrupt global prosperity.
Apollo Buys Out Water-Park Resort Great Wolf
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By David Benoit AP The private-equity giant is buying out Great Wolf Resorts in a deal that values the company's stock at $165 million, a 19% premium to Monday's close. Along with debt assumption, the deal is valued at about $703 million, ...
Travel tips for the casual photographer
CNET
By Shawn Low on Mar 13, 2012 We're sure some of you would have experienced a last-minute mad rush to get all your photographic gear in order before leaving a next holiday abroad. Instead of spending a bomb on a new SD card in a foreign country or ...
CNET
Girls in China commit suicide, dreaming of time travel
Fox News
Two girls in eastern China have killed themselves after leaving suicide notes saying they were attempting to travel back in time, according to state-owned China Daily. One of the fifth-grade girls had apparently lost the remote control for a garage ...
Astronauts' Eyesight At Risk From Space Travel, MRI Study Suggests
Huffington Post
"Microgravity-induced intracranial hypertension represents a hypothetical risk factor and a potential limitation to long-duration space travel," Kramer said. NASA medical officials have noted vision changes in some space station astronauts, ...
Belly Dancers in Cairo Clubs Flaunt Sensual Undulations: Travel
San Francisco Chronicle
Travel by Michael Luongo March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Even a revolution is no excuse to stop dancing in Cairo. "My family kept calling, telling me not to go down to Tahrir Square," said native Californian Ruth Allegra Pena. "But now I consider myself ...
You don't need a helicopter to travel like 'The Bachelor'
Fox News
In the 16th season of "The Bachelor," one element of the pseudo-reality show managed to nearly upstage the cattiness, Courtney's nastiness and even Ben Flajnik's heinous haircut: the spectaculartravel destinations. From California wine country to the ...
Rising fuel prices eat into travel budgets
USA TODAY
Travel industry observers say there's not a widespread retreat from travel underway. But if fuel prices stay high and economic emergencies such as the debt crisis in Europe aren't resolved, companies may again pull back. "In a worst-case scenario, ...
USA TODAY
WIMCO Villas Featured on The Today Show
MarketWatch (press release)
Then Travel & Leisure features editor Nilou Motamed says that WIMCO Villas is your answer. In a segment on The Today Show on March 2, Motamed laid out her top picks for each category ofvacation rental companies, from low-cost "rent a couch" options, ...
Canadian Tourism College Wins Surrey Women in Business Award
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Canadian Tourism College (CTC), a leading accredited travel and tourism career college, has been awarded a Surrey Women in Business Award for 2012 by the Surrey Board of Trade. CTC's owner and operator Kim Russell, along with business partner Gwen ...
Rock Memorial Day Weekend in Style With Renaissance Aruba Resort & Casino's ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY, Mar 13, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Renaissance Aruba Resort & Casino invites music lovers and sun seekers to catch the rhythm of the Dutch Caribbean with an exclusive Aruba hotel package available during the 12th Annual Soul Beach ...
Rentini Announces Launch of a New Website
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Popular vacation rental sites are set to have some strong competition with the launch of Rentini.com's new website. Rentini (http://www.rentini.com ) specializes in allowing the traveler to custom ...
New airline rules yet to be enforced, even as DOT levies record fines
Chicago Tribune
But while industry observers were trying to figure out how the new regulations would alter air travel, almost no one noticed other developments that could significantly affect your next flight. The DOT's Office of Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings, ...
Keep the kids plugged in on your next trip
Fox News
On vacation (heaven forbid you're taking them away from their friends) getting them to turn off their phones, tablet's, iTouches, and games can be even more difficult. Let's not forget the fact that you spent an enormous amount of time and expense ...
YELLOW7's VacationList.com Travel Insurance Now Available
MarketWatch (press release)
DALLAS, Mar 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Travelers who prefer the variety, flexibility, and convenience of vacation rentals via YELLOW7's (otcqb:YLLC) VacationList.com can now purchase affordable, benefit-rich travel insurance provided by Allianz, ...
No extra vacation, please - we're Swiss
Ottawa Citizen
Travail Suisse, one of Switzerland's biggest trade unions, had put forward the proposal for longer holidays under the slogan "6 Weeks Vacation for All" after it found that a third of Swiss employees suffered from stress at work.
Cranwell Resort Rebuilds New 18-Room Carriage House
PR Web (press release)
Historic year-round spa and golf resort replaces building lost in 2010 fire. New guest rooms will be open for popular Berkshires summer season in Western Massachusetts “We are very excited about re-opening the Carriage House which had long been a ...
PR Web (press release)
Summer work travel: Cheap labor or cultural exchange? | Gadling.com
By Chris Owen
The Summer Work Travel (SWT) program is a U.S. Department of State initiative that brings college students from around the world to the United States. ... All Deals, Flight Deals, Hotel Deals,Vacation Deals, Cruise Deals, Car Deals ...
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Salomon and Bonfire's Team Vacation: UK Adventure | TransWorld ...
By hondo
The Salomon and Bonfire guys went to the UK on their Team Vacation world tour. It looks fun ...TAGS: best of the web, Chris Carr, europe, Harrison Gordon, Jed Anderson, Resorts, riders, Salomon, Scotty Arnold, team vacation, uk, Webisodes ...
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Peter Greenberg Worldwide – How Accurate are Online Travel ...
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Travel news you can use from America's travel expert. Sign up for our FREE daily or weekly ...information! I love your blog! You always post interesting things; Marina: Super unique lodging that makes me want to vacation for a day.....great id ...
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Controversial Vacation Rental Bill Could Pass at Legislature | Maui ...
By Sonia Isotov
Testifying in opposition were Hawaii Vacation Rental Owners Association; The Travel Group; Trading Places International; Hanalei Bay Resort; Makana Mai Ka Lani; Hot Spot Tax Services; Sunshine & Rainbows, LLC; Humiston and Company ...
Maui Now
Travel Tuesday: My Kid Is Too Young To Fly? | Black and Married ...
By Kirstin Fuller
Travel Tuesday: My Kid Is Too Young To Fly? travel. by Kirstin Fuller | on March 13th, 2012 | 0 comments. Last week was a traumatic time for airline passengers, at least on one JetBlue flight and an American Airlines flight. On the American ...
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Dance, Sing, Floss & Travel: Yoga Cults & Lululemon's Manifesto ...
By Brooke Kochel
Sydney's Opera House makes a great backdrop for yoga poses to share with jealous friends on Facebook. Just kidding! We don't have pride or egos, we're perfect.
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Marriott Vacation Club Tops off Oceana Palms - WORLD ...
By Scott Kauffman
(Singer Island, FL) -- Marriott Vacation Club's second resort in the Palm Beaches is anticipating more villas with spectacular ocean views by early 2013. A recent topping-out ceremony marked the structural completion of the final 19-story tower ...
WPC News Center
Smoke dampens travel enthusiasm : TTR Weekly
By Paphada Apimonton
Tourism Authority of Thailand northern office director, Suphakit Polachan, warned earlier this week that the haze would deter domestic travel bookings to the North. Up until Tuesday when a massive rain storm hit Chiang Rai, the province was ...
TTR Weekly
San Francisco cyclist who killed tourist to become bike safety ...
By Mike Aldax
The heartbroken family of a tourist who was struck and killed by a red light-running bike rider last summer requested mercy for the cyclist, prosecutors said Monday, believing he should become a bicycle safety advocate instead of an inmate.
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Overhead Bin - 8 tourism slogans: Good, bad and blah
By Tracy Stewart
Only slightly more memorable than the VH1 reality show of the same name, I Love New York is thetravel slogan all others can only hope to become. Created by Milton Glaser in 1977, the I (Heart) NY logo appears on everything from deli bags ...
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Park City Files Lawsuit To Avert Resort Closure | TransWorld Business
By Kailee Bradstreet
Park City Mountain Resort announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Canadian-based real estate developer Talisker Land Holdings, LLC. in or.
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World's coolest staircases - Yahoo! Travel
Travel: Whether in shops, museums, or the great outdoors, the staircases we've ... By Briana Fasone and Lyndsey Matthews | Travel+Leisure – Tue, Mar 6, 2012 ...
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What Is ‘Skiplagging?’ Meet the Man Unearthing Cheap Travel Hacks.
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Aktarer Zaman is the founder of a controversial website that unearths
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