Travel News Archive

• 'The Top 10 travel websites (Times Online)
Your days of surfing aimlessly through the ether are over. Here is The Sunday Times' 10 top travel websites to make life simple again
• 'China's rich are young and keen to travel - survey (Reuters via Yahoo! India News)
BEIJING (Reuters) - Compared with other countries, China's new urban rich are younger, better-educated and keener to travel, a survey by international credit card organisation MasterCard showed on Monday.
• 'DHS bares upgrades to immigration, travel databases (Government Computer News)
The Homeland Security Department has unveiled several important upgrades to databases that collectively contain tens of millions of personal records concerning immigration and travel.
• 'Daily Debate: Air travel (ITV.com)
Should air travel be restricted to help the environment? Environmental protesters are holding a week-long campaign against a proposed runway at Heathrow Airport.
• 'Mariel Hemingway Gets Into the Travel Game (Gay Wired)
Oscar-nominated Mariel Hemingway , granddaughter of acclaimed author Ernest Hemingway and lesbian icon thanks to films including Personal Best and In Her Line of Fire, has partnered with Affinion Group as a celebrity spokesperson for the group's Travelers Advantage travel company.
• 'Kenya: Travel Agency Staff Update Skills On Galileo Software Use (AllAfrica.com)
Air travel solutions provider, Galileo, has entered into a partnership with Career Training Centre to update tour operators on the use of its software.
• 'Get savvy about travel insurance, consumers urged (The Motley Fool)
Customers - particularly those of a thrill-seeking disposition - need to scan the small print with a gimlet eye before signing a travel insurance policy, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said today.
• 'FEMA Moving Evacuees Out of Travel Trailers (WAFB Baton Rouge)
In response to high levels of formaldehyde found in FEMA travel trailers, the federal government is now offering to pay rent for hurricane evacuees who want to move out.
• 'How to stop travel?s sad customer-service slide (MSNBC)
It isn?t your imagination. The service is getting worse. Almost every measure of performance, from the federal government?s numbers to independent surveys by the likes of the University of Michigan?s American Customer Satisfaction Index, suggests that when it comes to travel, customer service is circling the drain. But you can help stop the slide.
• 'Discounted airfares offered for travel through Aug. 27 (Honolulu Advertiser)
Interisland airfares are dropping again. Hawaiian and Aloha airlines today announced $19 one-way fares for travel through Aug. 27. Tickets must be purchased online by midnight tonight.

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