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• 'Bush To Travel To Jefferson City Tuesday (The Kansas City Channel)
WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush will travel to Jefferson City, Mo., on Tuesday for a brief visit to discuss the Medicare prescription drug benefit, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Friday.
• 'U.S. Warns Citizens Against Travel to Pakistan on Terror Threat (Bloomberg.com)
April 8 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. State Department warned its citizens against non-essential travel to Pakistan because of possible terrorist attacks.
• 'Zimbabwe: US Envoy Explains Mugabe Travel Sanctions Busting (AllAfrica.com)
ZIMBABWEAN government ministers and ruling party officials on the US sanctions travel list have been able to exploit international conventions to travel to Washington and New York regularly, The Standard can reveal.
• 'US urges citizens to defer non-essential travel to Pakistan (Khaleej Times)
WASHINGTON - The United States Friday renewed a warning to its citizens to defer non-essential travel to Pakistan, citing possible terrorist attacks.
• 'Travel rules tough on cross border bus (NDTV)
The cross border bus service between Srinagar and Muzzafarabad completes a year amid complaints that travel procedures are tough. Just 300 people have traveled on the bus so far, though 35,000 travel forms have been distributed in the past year.
• 'Senior US lawmakers to travel to India for nuclear talks (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Republican House leader Dennis Hastert and other lawmakers announced plans to visit India next week to discuss a controversial bilateral nuclear deal made in March.
• 'Travel And Hospitality Industry Set To Tap Into Asia?s US$4 Billion Medical Tourism Market | Abacus Reports (Hospitality Net)
Asia?s burgeoning medical tourism industry, expected to be worth at least US$4 billion by 2012, is proving a windfall for the travel and hospitality sector. Abacus International President and CEO Don Birch says, ?The lure of low-cost, high quality healthcare in Asia is estimated to be attracting more than 1.3 million tourists a year to the key locations ? Thailand, Singapore, India, South Korea
• 'Travel Light Or Heavy With Herald Travel Expo (CBS 4 Miami)
Whether you travel light or travel heavy, the Miami Herald?s Travel Expo has something to help your travels go a little smoother. The annual even takes place this weekend.
• 'Business travel: In booming Moscow, a bust for reasonable hotels (International Herald Tribune)
A mix of bureaucratic regulations, astronomic real estate prices and poor planning has left Moscow with few mid-range hotels, forcing tourists and business travelers resigned to glittering, five-star hotels with head- spinning room rates.
• 'Travel curbs and clearance time take the sheen off bus service (The Hindu)
Fewer people are applying to travel and fewer still undertake the journey

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