Travel News Archive

• 'Reader Blog: Your Favorite Travel Tech Tools (MSNBC)
Savvy readers share their travel technology tips and expertise in our new reader blog.
• 'Summer travel tough on cars, gas, lives (Richmond.com)
How would you prefer your child to be educated? travel, fuel consumption, highway fatalities peak in August.
• 'Talkin' travel: Your airline questions answered (USA Today)
Talkin' travel: Your airline questions answered
• 'United Travel Newest UATP Merchant; Improves Customer Service With UATP Settlement Systems (RedNova)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- United Travel is the newest UATP merchant to utilize UATP's Settlement System (USS), a low-cost, weekly settlement system, to improve customer service and lower distribution costs for all UATP transactions.
• 'IAC To Spin Off Expedia Amid Slowing Online Travel Business (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
Barry Diller on Tuesday said his IAC/InterActiveCorp will spin off its travel businesses as a new publicly traded firm as of next Tuesday.
• 'Web travel sites threaten agencies (The Capital Times)
Koepcke Travel Agency is closing its doors today after more than 70 years of business in Madison, with its third-generation owner citing a dearth of clients and revenue shortfalls as the reason.
• 'Sonoma's AAA opens travel agency (Sonoma Index-Tribune)
08.02.05 - Sonoma's American Automobile Association branch now includes its own AAA full-service travel agency - one of 52 in Northern California. AAA Travel Sonoma offers worldwide cruises, tours and independent travel. AAA members will receive special member benefits when booking through the agency.
• 'Five-year travel contract for Suncor Energy awarded to ATCO Travel (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
ATCO Travel has been awarded a five-year contract to manage Suncor Energy's business travel programs.
• 'Travel signs of the times (Geelong Info)
TRAVEL times signs will be installed for motorists travelling through Geelong to the Great Ocean Road. The variable message signs will be placed at selected locations where route choices can be made.
• 'GAO sustains travel agencies? protests (FCW.com)
Six companies protested a Government Accountability Office solicitation related to the Defense travel System, a multimillion-dollar initiative under way to build a comprehensive, paperless travel network.

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