On World Tourism Day, Taj city Agra a story of neglect

On World Tourism Day, Taj city Agra a story of neglect
New York Daily News
The UP tourism department looks hardly prepared to create the kind of ambience required to encash the boom in the industry," said Shishir Bhagat, president of Wake Up Agra, an NGO working on different issues that people in the city face. Tourism ...

TUI Travel sees encouraging winter holiday sales
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - TUI Travel, the world's biggest tour operator, said it had sold more summer holidays this year than a year ago and that early sales of winter getaways had been encouraging. The group, which owns Thomson and First Choice, on Thursday ...

Travel As Frustration, Frustration As Freedom
Huffington Post
During my days as a broker in the heart of the city of London, I felt marginalized from life. Disconnected. Trapped behind a computer screen. Caught in a world created for me by others. Then everything changed. I stumbled across the epic movie "The ...

Travel Warning Issued: For Canada?
Gadling
Previously voted the world's most recommended country to visit just days ago, Canada's popularity took a turn for the worse this week as Iran's foreign ministry said Iranians should avoid travel to Canada. The move was in response to Canadian diplomats ...

'Travel helped me stop being afraid of the world'
The Seattle Times
Andrew McCarthy on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. McCarthy, an actor whose best-known films include "Pretty in Pink" and "St. Elmo's Fire," is also a travel writer for major magazines and has just written a travel memoir, "The Longest Way Home: One Man ...

94 percent of online travel sites' customers want airline fee information ...
eTurboNews
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Open Allies for Airfare Transparency today released the results of a summer 2012 travel experiences survey, conducted online by leading market research firm Harris Interactive among 2,310 U.S. adults ages 18 and older, which found ...

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Tourism and sustainable energy most relevant for state
Power Engineering Magazine
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Sept. 27 -- On this day, September 27, we once again come to an environmentally important date - the World Tourism Day, being commemorated all across the world with relevant programmes targeting various sections of the ...

Uganda Tourism Earnings Jump to $805 Million on Gorilla Tracking
Bloomberg
Tourism beat coffee exports as the country's top earner of foreign currency. The Uganda Coffee Development Authority reported export earnings of $449 million in the 12 months through September last year. To contact the reporter on this story: Fred ...

ekathimerini.com | Tourism target holds great potential
By By Stathis Kousounis
If Greece could meet the target of 20 million foreign tourism arrivals it would result in revenues of at least 12.8 billion euros from abroad, while in terms of the total impact on the economy it would mean an additional 7 billion euros -- or 3 ...
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500 Gallon Propane Leak Impacting Amtrak, SEPTA Travel In ...
By SteveBeck
Amtrak was forced to suspend rail traffic in the Wilmington area while firefighters worked to control a propane leak in an Amtrak yard on the north side of the city.
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CBS News video: Holiday travel tips: How to get the best deals - With Christmas less than three ...
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Watch: How Time Travel Works, Rejected Pitch for 'Being John ...
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Candidates hear from leaders in travel industry HEIDI GAISER/Daily Inter ... Some of the speakers are directly tied to the tourism industry, while others' links are ...
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