Travel News Archive

• 'Travel Notes (San Jose Mercury News)
International travel to European destinations increased by 4.6 percent during the first seven months of 2005, with most growth attributed to short leisure trips, the World travel Market says.
• 'Point. Click. Travel. (Boston Globe)
travel search engines with unfamiliar names like Sidestep, Kayak, and Farechase may be mere blips on the Internet, but they are generating a lot of buzz.
• 'Travel bargains set outside year-end (Asia News Network)
Major travel agencies are entering the final phase of their sales drive for the New Year holiday season, offering bargain prices before and after the turn of the year.
• 'Rising travel costs force businesses to change tactics (Delaware Online)
Anyone who believes that inflation has been whipped probably isn't paying for business travel. On every front -- air travel, hotels, rental cars -- costs are up and going higher.
• 'Travel industry braces for bird flu / Possible outbreak concerns airlines, cruise operators (San Francisco Chronicle)
Hoping for the best but preparing for the worst, the travel and tourism business is gearing up for a widespread outbreak of avian flu among humans, a much-feared event that would put travelers and travel-industry workers on the front lines of the fight...
• 'Sixty-seven dogs confiscated from van, travel trailer (KVOA Tucson)
TUCSON, Ariz. Authorities have confiscated 67 Pekingese dogs from a woman who kept them in a van and travel trailer north of Tucson.
• 'TRAVEL: Give the gift of a getaway (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
What : A shark-diving experience on a five-day boat expedition. How: You and 15 others will travel by chartered bus to Mexico and then take a luxury yacht to explore Isla de Guadalupe, which has one of the largest populations of great white sharks on the planet.
• 'Ontario students travel to Hong Kong to honour Canadian veterans (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
HONG KONG (CP) - It was a long way for high school students to travel for a remembrance ceremony, but when they finally saw the meaning of a year's work, the trek from Canada to Hong Kong was worth more than they imagined.
• 'Travel (New York Times)
In travel writing, the travel and the writing are important, of course, but don't bother doing either unless you have a third element: the gimmick.
• 'The travel troubleshooter (Miami Herald)
Q: I was flying from Minneapolis to Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Northwest Airlines. My children and I were late and missed our flight. I immediately called the airline to see if we could get rebooked on the next flight, which was the following day. A Northwest representative told me to call my travel agent, and advised me that there would be a $100 change fee.

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