'Vacation sex': Just what your love life needs

'Vacation sex': Just what your love life needs
CNN (blog)
“Taking time to check-out from your hectic life, and check-in to a hotel or resort is the perfect way to rejuvenate your relationship and reconnect with your partner,” says Amy Levine, sex coach and founder of Igniteyourpleasure.com. “While a vacation ... 

How to fight a bad vacation policy
CBS News
(MoneyWatch) Dear Evil HR Lady, Our firm just implemented a new policy stating that vacation days must now be taken in increments of one week. The managing partner's (who seems to be the only one that feels this way) reasoning is that taking a day here ...
 
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Caribbean News Now!: Caribbean sustainable tourism conference ...

With the theme “Keeping the Right Balance: Sustaining Our Resources” the Conference is a forum for discussion on how to design and implement sustainable tourism policies and programs. CTO Secretary-General Hugh Riley says the organization has been using ...Delegates to STC 13 will also benefit from the expertise of Antonio del Rosal, executive director for Latin America of Adventure Travel Association in Mexico. He will be conducting a workshop on strategic marketing for ...
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Sands Launches $4.4 Billion Macau Casino-Resort
Wall Street Journal
MACAU—US billionaire Sheldon Adelson's Macau casino operator on Wednesday launched its long-delayed fourth resort, a $4.4 billion complex and its latest bet on continued growth in the world's biggest gambling market. Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon ...

Wall Street Journal

Mountain Reservations to Host Annual Travel Awards Ceremony at 37th Annual ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SALT LAKE CITY, Apr 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mountain Reservations, the premier provider of ski and mountain vacation packages, will host its second annual Mountain Reservations Travel Awards Ceremony at the 37th Mountain Travel Symposium at Squaw ...

Air carrier shutdown ruins vacation plans
Reuters
Floyd's unexpected stranding highlights just how precarious travel plans can be as families and young people across the United States gear up for warm-weather vacations. And with many consumers still struggling financially, more importance is given to ...

South Africa Tourist Arrivals Reach Record After World Cup
Bloomberg
Tourist arrivals in South Africa rose to a record last year as the country built on its success of hosting the 2010 soccer World Cup and attracted more visitors from Asia, Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said. The number of international ...

Aeroplan offers its Members a new way to make their dream vacation a reality
MarketWatch (press release)
"This new initiative is excellent news for our members as now members can use their Aeroplan Miles for a flight and purchase a hotel stay, car rental or vacation package at the same time," said David Klein, Vice President, Marketing & Innovation, ...

The Best Travel Rewards Credit Cards, April 2012
Forbes
It's time to plan your holiday travel. That may mean cashing in the travel rewards you've accumulated on credit cards — or it may mean starting to use a travel rewards credit card. Chances are you spend money on some necessities, and when you do, ...

Sands opens a $4.4B casino in booming Chinese city of Macau
Detroit Free Press
The Sands Cotai Central opened Wednesday in the Chinese resort city of Macau. The $4.4-billion complex is the 35th casino to open in Macau, the only place in China where casino gambling is legal. Its boom is due to high-rolling gamblers from mainland ...

Would-be Idaho resort buyer indicted on wire fraud
BusinessWeek
By TODD DVORAK A pension fund trustee and investment adviser from Idaho who made a $40 million bid to buy a failed ski resort was arrested Wednesday on charges of raiding pension funds he was hired to oversee. Matthew Hutcheson, 41, of Eagle, ...

How to afford summer travel to Europe
msnbc.com
If you think visiting Europe is out of reach for your budget, Nilou Motamed of Travel+ Leisure will make you reconsider with affordable trips, from Italy to Iceland. ByTravel + Leisure If you've put off a trip to Europe for a few years, consider 2012 ...

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GBTA Academy Launches First Ever Global Travel Professional(TM) Certification ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Global Business TravelAssociation (GBTA), the voice of the business travel industry, today announced the launch of the Global Travel Professional (GTP) Certification, the very first ...

Innovative Spa Offerings Top of Mind for New York's Spa & Resort Expo Attendees
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- From June 19-20, spa owners, managers, and professionals, will be attending the New York Spa & Resort/Medical Aesthetics Expo ( www.spaandresortexpo.com ), to find unique offerings, ...

Metra mum on travel during NATO summit
Chicago Tribune
With the NATO summit looming next month, Metra officials said Wednesday that they are looking at "different scenarios" to accommodate riders if rail service is affected or even shut down, but the agency was tight-lipped about discussing what options ...

BRIDES Magazine Selects Venerable Travel Network Virtuoso® to Reveal Top ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- When it comes to planning a honeymoon or romantic getaway, the travel possibilities can be endless. Choices may include a secluded beach vacation, European tours, intrepid safaris, ...

Find Some Family Time on Stone Mountain at Evergreen Marriott Conference Resort
MarketWatch (press release)
Now through September 21, 2012, the Stone Mountain resort is offering special rates for families looking to get away from it all. Be sure promotional code EW4 appears in the Corporate/Promotional code box when making your online Stone Mountain vacation ...

Vail Resorts buys Kirkwood resort in $18M deal
Sacramento Bee
Vail Resorts Inc. has completed the purchase of Kirkwood Mountain Resort at Lake Tahoe, Calif., and some undeveloped sites near the ski resort for about $18 million. Vail Resorts, which runs ski resorts, luxury hotels and condominiums, said Thursday ...

Italian man held by rebels in India lost 22 pounds
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Italian tourist guide Paulo Bosusco, who was abducted more than a month ago, greets the waiting media outside the state guest house in the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, India, Thursday, April 12, 2012. Maoist rebels on Thursday released Bosusco ...

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Vacation Days Left Unused By Nearly Half Of US Workers: Report
Huffington Post
Nearly half of American workers didn't use all of their allotted vacation days last year, according to a recent survey conducted by Kelton Research and commissioned by the Radisson hotel chain. Heavy workloads and the struggle to pay for travel were ...

Victorinox Swiss Army Travel Gear Now Available With a Corporate Logo at ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Promology101, a leader in the promotional marketing industry, has announced the availability of Victorinox Travel Gear with a corporate logo. Executive and employee gifting has reached a new level in the promotional products industry.

Tourist market up as Asian, German visitors surge
Creamer Media's Engineering News
South Africa's foreign tourist market grew by 3% to more than 8.3-million in 2011, driven by a surge in German and Asian visitors, Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said in Cape Town on Thursday. Marketing efforts in its trading partners' ...

Travel's silly season: rat racing, cricket spitting and mullet tossing, oh my
msnbc.com (blog)
The mullet toss in Pensacola, Fla., features contestants hurling the small saltwater fish as far as they can into Alabama. By Rob Lovitt, msnbc.com contributor April, wrote the poet TS Eliot, is the cruelest month but, here in the Overhead Bin, ...

msnbc.com (blog)

Grass dismisses Israeli travel ban
Fox News
Grass on Wednesday stressed that the travel ban won't hinder him from keeping the memories of his past trips to Israel alive. "I still see myself bound to Israel forever," he said. In Israel, Grass' poem has touched a raw nerve, where officials have ...

Business news in brief
Philadelphia Inquirer
Casino workers at the ready at the Sands' newest resort, Sands Cotai Central, in Macau. US billionaire Sheldon Adelson's Macau casino operator is launching its long-delayed fourth resort, a $4.4 billion complex betting on continued strong growth in the ...

Poor sleep from travel, late-night shifts linked to obesity, diabetes
Bend Bulletin
By Nicole Ostrow / Bloomberg News Lack of sleep or erratic slumber from working late-night shifts or travel may lead to diabetes and obesity, according to a Harvard study that is the first to tie abnormal sleep patterns to disease.

Travel Scams Spike During Spring, Summer Months
Huffington Post
By Mitch Lipka April 12 (Reuters) - When it comes to large migrations of people during the US spring break and summer vacations, the travel scams can come from most any angle. College students and families are targeted. So are grandparents back home.

US Energy Department: Peak Travel Season Could Cost Drivers 6% More
National Geographic
Gasoline prices have edged off the pedal in recent days, but the Energy Information Administration this week released new data showing motorists will pay about a quarter more per gallon during peak travel season—April through September.

Resort close to signing marketing deal
Delmarva Now
OCEAN CITY -- The Town Council is close to approving a written agreement with Ocean City'sTourism Advisory Board detailing which responsibilities both entities have in regard to an annual $300000 marketing fund set aside to help boost the resort's ...

And The Webby Award Nominees In Travel Are...
Forbes
KAYAK: App version of the site (also nominated), which compares hundreds of travel sites for the most optimal flight and hotel choices, plus tracks flight status and manages your itinerary. TripIt: Organizes all trip details into a master itinerary, ...

Why I Love Budget Travel
By April Dykman
This post is by staff writer April Dykman. I love budget travel. Maybe it's from watching too many episodes of Europe Through the Backdoor and...Read more. ... Last year I was considering taking a trip with friends — an all-inclusive spa vacation at a fancy resort. Ultimately I declined because all of the selling points — meals included, Condé Nast Traveler ... Tourist sights are popular for a reason, and there are usually several on my list of things to do. But I try to balance those with some ...
Get Rich Slowly - Personal Finance...

Travel agency Amber Tours invites you to explore the magnificent ...
By editor
Amber Tours is a leading DMC, providing quality travel services as well as personally tailored solutions for all types of events to its international travel trade partners. Our clients are tour operators, meeting and planning incentives for companies that require customized ... During this visit the Lithuanian Tourism Department presented the tourist infrastructure possibilities of Lithuania. Amber Tours had a chance to meet Chinese outbound tour operators, who showed particular interest in ...
The Lithuania Tribune

Heavy Rain And Snow Make Travel Treacherous; More Unstable ...
By Lisa
It was a treacherous commute for much of Northern California as a morning downpour caused a bevy of accidents as water pooled on Valley roadways and snow piled up on Sierra passes.
CBS Sacramento

James Van Der Beek won't resort to crying Dawson on 'Don't Trust ...
By Carina Adly MacKenzie
A couple years ago, if you'd suggested to Van Der Beek that one day he'd be playing an incredibly offensive version of himself, wearing '90s flannel, and blasting Paula Cole's “I Don't Want to Wait” in a sitcom pilot, he probably would've ...
From Inside the Box

Myanmar: Sex Tourism Industry · Global Voices
By Mong Palatino
Tweet · submit to reddit · Fifty Viss writes about Myanmar's sex tourism industry. The author also reviews past proposals on how to regulate prostitution. Google +1 icon. Email this to a friend Email. StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper ...
Global Voices

Skullcandy Presents the 2012 TransAM : Premier Resort Award ...
By hondo
Bear Mountain came out on top yet again as the Premier TransAm Resort. ... It was fun to watch, and Waterville proved why they are a Skullcandy-sponsored resort. The next stop was one to remember, as the tour stayed east and touched ...
Transworld Snowboarding » –...

New Mexico Taps Tucker for Tourism PR
By nospam@example.com (Greg Hazley)
New Mexico has tabbed Dallas-based Tucker & Associates to guide tourism PR for the state, following a review kicked off in January. Read the full story (sub req'd) | Subscribe to O'Dwyer's. Posted by Greg Hazley in travel at 09:42 | Comments ...
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UAE Exchange partners with Cozmo Travel for collecting payments ...
UAE Exchange, the global remittance and foreign exchange brand, joins hands with CozmoTravel, a travel company in the UAE, to provide a new payment option for their online bookings.
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Travel Photography by Sam Gellman » Creative Photography Blog
By admin
Sam Gellman is a part-time travel photographer based in Hong Kong. His images have been published by BBC, Wired, GlobalPost, and newspapers around the world. He was a short-listed finalist in the 2010 and 2011 Travel Photographer of ...
Creative Photography Blog

TripAdvisor: Avoiding The 'Travel Site Echo Chamber' - Business ...
By Boonsri Dickinson
Gogobot co-founder Travis Katz also echoed this problem social travel sites have when trying to gain a critical mass: social companies can't be social if they don't have any users. That shouldn't be a problem for TripAdvisor. According to ...
Business Insider

DASTA drives for sustainable tourism | Pattaya today newspaper
By pattayatoday
Pattaya has submitted a request for 16-billion baht related to DASTA; the bid is under review by the Thai government on the expectation that tourist numbers and revenues will triple in the next five years. DASTA fears that small and medium ...
Pattaya today newspaper

Beyonce And Jay Z Take TOURIST PICS In St. Barths . . . They ...
Beyonce And Jay Z Take TOURIST PICS In St. Barths . . . They Really Are A CUTE ... Just a regular married couple relaxing on vacation doing the touristy thing.
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