Travel News Archive

• 'Travel companies calm before impending storms (USA Today)
With the peak of a record-setting Atlantic hurricane season still ahead, a growing number of travel companies are trying to reassure nervous travelers by offering storm-related guarantees.
• 'Israel Lifts Travel Warning Against Turkey (TurkishPress.com)
JERUSALEM - Israel lifted on Thursday a travel warning against visiting the region between Alanya and Kemer towns of southern Turkish city of Antalya.
• '330-day alert: Book your 2006 July Fourth award travel now (USA Today)
Column: The best piece of advice for getting the award seat you want is to book early, specifically 330 days before your desired travel dates, when seats first become available.
• 'Concrete Company Trades Travel for Web Meetings (Network Computing)
Tindall Corp. needed to reduce travel time and expenses while still encouraging employee collaboration. The solution: web conferencing, which promises to save the company tons.
• 'A reminder about the miracle of space travel (Babylon Beacon)
We are living in a world in which space travel has become commonplace. Such voyages no longer command the attention of the public the way they did in the past.
• 'No sitting still in the travel business (Sydney Morning Herald)
If there is one business that must rue the day the public gained access to the internet, it would be travel agencies. In the past decade, they have watched their customers virtually disappear as they've flocked to the net and tried to become do-it-yourself travel agents.
• 'Attacks leave travel plans up in air for Benton graduate (Benton Courier)
Benton's Jamie Fugitt, right, and Amanda Tackett were going to enjoy time in London soon, but Tackett's travel plans are on hold after the bombings in London Thursday. Fugitt is currently studying in England.
• 'US travel agents revive health scares (Bangkok Post)
Travellers are very savvy about picking up the latest travel hot deal, but not so tuned-in to the threat they might pick up a nasty bug that they hadn't factored into the travel budget. That's the view of the world's largest travel agency association known as ASTA.
• '"Budget Travel" magazine offers free online tips (Seattle Times)
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine has launched a new Web site with several new features...
• 'Travel bug still bites (Herald Sun)
TOURISTS are proving resilient and sticking to their travel plans despite the recent bomb blasts in London and at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

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