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• 'Sector Glance: Online Travel Falls (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Shares of online travel companies mostly declined Wednesday, with Orbitz losing ground for a second day, as Soleil Securities began coverage of the stock with a "Hold" rating.
• 'LightScribe launches free travel kit (MacNN)
LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling today rolled out its LightScribe travel Kit, allowing users to add a personal touch to vacation or trip-oriented DVD and CD label designs. Owners of LightScribe-enabled drives can download travel DVD and CD label designs, mailers, and disc sleeve designs that reflect favorite trip memories to share with family and f...
• 'U.S. fines online travel company for Cuba trips (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Online travel company Travelocity has been fined $182,750 for booking trips between the United States and Cuba in violation of the trade embargo enforced by Washington since 1962, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.
• 'Travelocity first online travel services provider to be fined for Cuba trips (CP via Yahoo! Canada News)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a first for an online travel company, Travelocity.com has been fined by U.S. regulators for booking trips between the U.S. and Cuba in violation of a 45-year-old embargo.
• 'Qantas Profit Surges 50% on Travel Demand, Plans Share Buyback (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Qantas Airways Ltd., Australia's largest airline, said full-year profit climbed 50 percent to a record as the company cut costs and travel demand rose. The company plans to buy back 10 percent of its stock.
• 'FORD SHRUGS OFF TRAVEL SICKNESS (Sporting Life)
Defence coach Mike Ford claims England will travel with "bags of confidence" to Marseille - despite an appalling away record since the 2003 World Cup.
• 'Ed Perkins on Travel: Eastern European cities give cheaper thrills (San Francisco Chronicle)
If a late-summer trip to Europe is on your wish list, you can still find some destinations where a week's visit won't break the bank. Priceline, the big online travel site, recently polled its in-house experts on the best places to visit in Eastern Europe (a...
• 'US asks Syria to lift travel ban on ailing opposition leader (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The United States on Wednesday called on Syria to lift a travel ban on opposition leader and former MP Riad Seif so that he could get medical treatment overseas.
• 'U.S. urges Syria to allow dissident to travel abroad (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The United States demanded on Wednesday that Syria allow dissident and former member of parliament Riad Seif to travel abroad for medical treatment.
• 'FTC will do for travel from Sarawak to Brunei by year?s end (The Star Online)
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Holders of Frequent travellers Card (FTC) will not need passports to travel the entire stretch of the 2,000km-long Pan Borneo Highway from Sarawak through Brunei to Sabah by the end of this year, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Radzi Sheikh Ahmad.

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