Travel Isn't Just About Places

Travel Isn't Just About Places
Huffington Post
Ten months ago, I had moved to the US temporarily and while here planned to travel as much as I could. We caught up with each other over chat one night. She invited me to California. Her home was my home, she wrote. I really wanted to go to California. 

Skift Delivers Travel Industry Intelligence to Frequent Flyers
Wired News (blog)
Fed up with dated travel publications and fresh from two years of traveling the world, paidContent founder Rafat Ali is launching his next endeavor, a travel industry intelligence service called Skift. Why would this former digital media news guru turn his sights on airline, hotel, and tourism intelligence? “Well, I don't like sports,” says Ali, who left paidContent in 2010. “I'm a traveler, so there was a personal bias to cover this information.” Skift's business is divided into three parts: trade information publishing, consumer ...

Roller coaster strands dozen for 2 hours
msnbc.com
Jump to discuss comments below. discuss. x. Image: Vermont Tourism Twitter page ... Travelstories. Image: · New vacation necessity: professional photographer? With friends and family increasingly scrutinizing vacation photos via Facebook, some travelers are hiring professional photographers to capture lasting memories of their trip. ... The new ride opened June 30 at the Vallejo theme park, holds two cars with six riders each and can travel at up to 62 mph. It ride will be closed for a "thorough safety inspection," ...

Travel Bloggers to Converge in Toronto, Canada for TBEX Conference in 2013
MarketWatch (press release)
"It is a privilege to welcome TBEX and the hundreds of travel bloggers and tourism industry peers next June," says Andrew Weir, Vice President, Communications of Tourism Toronto. "Toronto is an inspiring backdrop for a meeting at any time, and particularly ...

Regatta Travel Solutions to Bring CVBs to Google Hotel Finder
MarketWatch (press release)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Regatta Travel Solutions announced today that it will integrate its booking engine for CVBs with Google Hotel Finder. The launch of Google's Hotel Finder has generated a significant ...

Train fire kills 32 in southern India; dozens hurt
Boston.com
Around 20 million people travel by train each day. Meanwhile, 30 Hindu pilgrims were killed when two trucks collided in the northern Indian state of Haryana, police said. Thirty-five others were injured in the head-on collision early Monday when the pilgrims ...

The Travel Team to Virtualize and Standardize Technology Infrastructure with ...
MarketWatch (press release)
With extensive travel industry expertise, Cetrom's certified staff will take over all day-to-day administrative technology management, while the innate capability of the custom Cloud solution will provide extensive mobility and accessibility. The new solution ...

paidContent Founder Rafat Ali Launches Skift for Travel Industry ...
By Peter Kafka
What do you do after you build and sell a pioneering digital media start-up? Take two years off, and start building another media start-up. That's the short version of Rafat Ali's story. The slightly longer version: The guy who started paidContent ...
AllThingsD

Three Unsung Travel Gear Items | Gadling.com
By Pam Mandel
Good socks are a travel essential; they should be seasonally appropriate and wear well. You can't have too many SmartWool socks, I've become a fan of Darn Tough Vermont socks (hey, American made, if you care about that) and Dahlgren's ...
Gadling

Rap-Up.com || Rihanna Bares Bikini Body on Italian Vacation
By Rap-Up
Rihanna's adventures at sea continue. The Bajan beauty sailed into Portofino, Italy, on her private yacht over the weekend. The paparazzi snapped her flaunting her hot body in a metallic cheetah-print bikini before jumping in the water for ...
Rap-Up.com

Vacation, Unplugged | Fast Company
A vacation spent with one thumb on the iPhone at all times is no vacation at ... Even now, as more companies embrace the concept of "unlimited vacation," ... 2012; Travel to a place where absence of wireless reception and wi-fi makes it ...
www.fastcompany.com/1844006/vacation-unplugged

Travel News Site Skift Launches: An Interview With Cofounder ...
Filed under: Business p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Skift, a new travel news site from ... We want Skift to be the daily homepage of the travel industry. ... 12:16pm Top 10 Reasons Couples Argue On Vacation; 11:00am The Olympic Parade Of ... 8:16am Utah Ski Resort Offers California Residents Free Skiing All Winter Long ...
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Olympics Tourism Boost Sails Into Weymouth - Yahoo! News UK
'Olympics Tourism Boost Sails Into Weymouth' on Yahoo! ... The sleepy seaside resort in Dorset was chosen for the event in 2005 - because of its internationally ...
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