Travel News Archive

• 'Travel site deals, not such a steal (ABC 15 Phoenix)
When you plan a trip chances are you start by searching your favorite travel sites for the best deals. In our consumer alert we've found the low price you see when you search, might not be the price you're going to pay.
• 'Acxiom Adds D.K. Shifflet & Associates Survey Data, Creating More Powerful Information Source for Travel Marketers (Centre Daily Times)
Acxiom(R) Corporation (NASDAQ: ACXM) today announced a new marketing solution that provides travel companies with detailed insights about the buying and travel behaviors of customers and prospects. Acxiom has added D.K. Shifflet & Associates' in-depth travel survey data for the first time to PersonicX, its household-level consumer segmentation suite. This new layer of consumer information ...
• 'Parents of Slain Student get Visas to Travel from China (WNYC New York Public Radio)
The parents of Minghui Yu, the Columbia University student who was killed last Friday, now have visas to travel from China to claim their son. Senator Charles Schumer says the state department grante....
• 'Metro New York Partners with Fodor's Travel for New Weekly Feature (Centre Daily Times)
Fodor's Travel--the foremost name in travel publishing--will contribute weekly travel features to Metro New York newspaper beginning on April 3, 2008. Every other week, the newspaper will feature content from Fodor's Travel guidebooks and Fodors.com. On alternate weeks, Fodor's editors will answer reader's questions in an "Ask Fodor's" column.
• 'Travel Agents: Still Worth Knowing (Aviation.com via Yahoo! News)
You may have asked yourself why you would ever need a travel agent. This is the Internet age: You point and click and do it yourself. Travel agents belong back there in the planet's past, like the dinosaurs.
• 'It's Time to Think about Travel Insurance (Aviation.com via Yahoo! News)
With Aloha, ATA, Skybus and Skyway Airlines all going out of business last week in one incredible five-day free-fall, it's time for travelers to think about something they may not have considered before: travel insurance.
• 'Rice to travel to Gulf for talks on Iraq, Mideast peace: official (AFP via Yahoo! News)
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to Bahrain and Kuwait this month for talks with Arab and other officials about Iraq and the Arab-Israeli peace process, her spokesman said Wednesday.
• 'Rice wants to end travel curb on Mandela and ANC (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday she wanted to end "embarrassing" U.S. travel restrictions on former South African President Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress.
• 'The skies are unfriendly in costs for foreign travel (Contra Costa Times)
Though the dollar is tanking and foreign travel costs are up, expanded competition for both major and low-cost airlines could add up to lower costs for international air travel.
• 'Palin spends far less than predecessor on travel (Anchorage Daily News)
Frank Murkowski spent more than half a million dollars on travel in his last year in the governor's office. Sarah Palin spent less than $115,000 on travel during her first year in office.

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