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• 'Travel Agents Make A Comeback (CBS News)
travel agencies booked 75 percent of travel until the mid-1990s, but 77 million people will purchase airline tickets online in 2007. Lately, though, travel agents are experiencing a resurgence.
• 'S.C. could save on travel expenses (The Charlotte Observer)
South Carolina's government is spending more than it needs to on state employee meals when workers travel but don't stay overnight, according to a report from the Legislative Audit Council released Tuesday. The agency reviewed state travel practices in a May 2005 report and made 14 recommendations. Five were put in place, including limiting hotel room costs to levels set by the federal government ...
• '4:57 p.m. FEMA backs away from travel trailers at Miami (The Joplin Globe)
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), after meeting with city and state officials on Wednesday, has decided not to use travel trailers to help citizens who were displaced by the July 4 flood in Miami, Okla.
• 'Travel agent says shes being run out of business (The Maui News)
HAIKU ? Travel agent Donna Stafford said she made no money in July, blaming the county?s new stance on illegal transient vacation rentals as the cause of her predicament.
• 'Maui travel agent says she's being run out of business (Honolulu Advertiser)
HAIKU ? Travel agent Donna Stafford said she made no money in July, blaming the county's new stance on illegal transient vacation rentals as the cause of her predicament, The Maui News reported.
• 'Brancatelli: Rule 240 'consigned to the dustbin of air-travel history' (USA Today)
Can we get just one thing straight? Rule 240 is an urban legend. That's the word from travel columnist Joe Brancatelli, who says today's airline contracts of carriage tilt heavily in the favor of the carriers. As for Rule 240,...
• 'Taming the travel monsters (The Christian Science Monitor)
Travel is about allowing the world to challenge our assumptions; the amazing adventures and intriguing people trump any ephemeral discomforts.
• 'Travelers Turn To Travel Agents To Simplify Plans (CBS 2 Los Angeles)
Travel agencies booked 75 percent of travel until the mid 1990s, but 77 million people will purchase airline tickets online in 2007. Lately, though, travel agents are experiencing a resurgence as many people are discovering that they don't like booking their own travel.
• 'Official to travel to U.S. to try to end Yi stalemate (ESPN)
China's top basketball official will travel to the United States to try and end the standoff between the Milwaukee Bucks and their top draft pick Yi Jianliang, state media reported on Tuesday.
• 'Canada Travel Request Could Hit Snag At Conrad Black Hearing Today (Editor & Publisher)
CHICAGO Convicted former newspaper magnate Conrad Black goes back to federal court in Chicago Wednesday afternoon to renew his request to travel to his native Canada while awaiting sentencing in late November.

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