Thursday, September 13, 2012

Travelers Want More Tech and Mobile Services From Airports and Airlines

Travelers Want More Tech and Mobile Services From Airports, Airlines
By Anita Li
FlightView polled 2600 travelers on the tech and mobile services they want on planes and at airports.
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Why Bolivia Should Be Your Next Travel Destination | Gadling.com
By Jessica Festa
Now, Bolivia is one of my favorite travel destinations on the planet. Here's why: It Offers One-Of-A-Kind Adventures Where else can you bike the world's most dangerous road, explore the planet's largest forest and hike the Earth's longest ...
Gadling

Airlines Offer Cheaper Airfare Directly To Customers, Penalizing Online Travel ...
Huffington Post
Contracts with the online travel agencies prohibit airlines from offering lower fares on their sites. Instead, airlines such as JetBlue Airways Corp., Spirit Airlines Inc. and Virgin America often provide discount codes in emails to their frequent ...

Checkpoint could be future of air travel
CNN
Published on Sep 12, 2012 by CNN. Air travel may get easier in the future, but still remain secure. CNN's Sandra Endo reports. For more CNN videos, check out our YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/cnn. Or visit our site at http://www.cnn.com ...

Expedia unveils new reward plan for small business
Boston.com
The program also will allow small businesses to monitor and manage their staff travel without having to buy a system like larger businesses do, Expedia Inc. said. The agency has designed a ''dashboard'' view that allows owners and staff to see all ...

Mohammed film, ambassador murder means travel ban on Libya, Egypt
Examiner.com
The murder of Ambassador Stevens yesterday reinforces the travel ban on Libya issued just weeks ago. A film promoted by conservative Koran-burning Florida pastor Terry Jones, which insulted Mohammed and implied that he was a sex pervert, has been ...

Examiner.com

West Point voters pass tourism tax
Sacramento Bee
Voters in West Point have passed a resolution to allow the city to levy a one-percent tourism sales tax, bringing the sales tax to nine percent on restaurant, liquor store and hotel/motel purchases. The Commercial Dispatch reports ( http://bit.ly ...

UNC Chapel Hill to audit travel-related expenses
My Fox 8
UNC Chapel Hill said Tuesday it had cut loose billion-dollar fundraiser Matt Kupec, a former star quarterback, over possibly improper travel spending. The questions arose from trips that Kupec, who is divorced, shared with another campus fundraiser who ...

My Fox 8

Best travel rewards cards
CBS News
(MoneyWatch) If you find yourself regularly jetting across the country, spending many a night in hotel rooms and airport gates, you're the perfect candidate for a travel rewards card. Many of these cards charge annual fees, but frequent travelers ...

CBS News

Nev. air race goes on 1 year after deadly crash
Boston.com
The new name is the result of a one-time, $600,000 sponsorship the state tourism commission extended as necessary to keeping the event alive in the face of soaring insurance premiums. Race organizers hope the most significant changes will be ...

Burberry Sounds Troubling Alert on Chinese Tourism
CNBC.com
Until now, investors and companies have buried their heads in the sand and reiterated the Mainland slowdown will be offset by Chinse tourism in Europe. After all, the Chinese affluent are in search of luxury goods at cheaper prices — 30 percent less ...

Using a Raspberry Pi as your travel computer - Hack a Day
By Mike Szczys
Do you think you could travel for the entire summer and leave your laptop at home? [Gef] did just that. With the help of his Kindle he used a Raspberry Pi as his travel computer. This was an easy association to think up, since he planned to ...
Hack a Day

cross border travel | Europe Forum | Fodor's Travel Talk Forums
By abhi0206
hi has anyone done a cross border self drive travel from Zurich to Interlaken to Rome to venice and back to Zurich. just wanted to know if there are any issues with cross border travel form Switzerland to italy and back. and is this travel is a ...
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The world in analogue - the best Lomography travel photos | Travel ...
Lomography – the retro form of analogue photography favoured by the likes of Alexa Chung and Jack White – can give holiday snaps an arty, stylised look ...
Smashwords — Honduras Travel Guide — A book by Marina ...
Honduras has so much to offer that it's hard to know where to start. 'Take the Kids Along' - Honduras makes your trip easy with tons of important information: ...
Travel agency plans to open 15 outlets all over country | Sun.Star
In a separate interview, tourism industry consultant Patria Aurora Roa said travel agencies are here to stay despite the presence and popularity of online ...

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