Travel News Archive

• 'Travel still hot for Japanese women (Pacific Business News)
A research firm investigating reports that young Japanese women are losing interest in travel has found to the contrary.
• 'AAA Chicago Expects Record Christmas-New Year's Travel (The Auto Channel)
AURORA, Ill., Dec. 14 -- The higher cost of travel won't keep Americans from taking trips during the Christmas-New Year's holidays.
• 'Holiday travel season looks brighter for San Diego (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News)
AAA is predicting San Diego to be among the top destinations for travelers this Christmas and New Year's holiday, something local tourism experts are calling a marked improvement for the city.
• 'Cendant says travel division hurt earnings (Orlando Sentinel)
Cendant Corp., which owns Century 21 real estate, Ramada hotels, Avis rental cars and Orbitz online travel service, said Tuesday its fourth-quarter earnings will be at the lower end of its projected range due to weak results at its Travel Distribution Services division, primarily in its international online operations. Cendant said it now expects to earn 23 cents per share from continuing
• 'Cendant travel service to weigh on profit (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Cendant Corp. on Tuesday said challenges at its travel services division would push fourth-quarter earnings to the bottom of the range it forecast in October, sending its shares down 9 percent.
• 'Senior travel year-in-review (USA Today)
Column: From the creation of a new travel-booking website for AARP members to the demise of a beloved senior travel company, 2005 was filled with both promising and discouraging developments in senior travel. Here's a recap of the best new deals, the top ongoing offers and the senior programs that didn't make it to the new year.
• 'Travel Hotel: A Smokers Needs (Gadling)
LA Times travel blog, The Daily Traveler , takes a second to play the tiniest violin on Earth after spotting this piece on hotels and smokers needs in the Boston Herald . One smoker worries what should happen if all hotels begin to follow the Westin?s new non-smoking hotels policy? After expressing her concerns she envisions an all-smoking hotel. No matter how nasty some of us may find the
• 'Travel firm unpacks five-fold rise in profits (The Herald)
David Urquhart Travel, which is Britain's biggest independent coach holiday company, enjoyed five-fold growth in profits in the latest period despite the seemingly unstoppable rise of budget airlines.
• 'Travel firm Transat A.T.'s Q4 profit jumps to $18M, but outlook cloudy (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
MONTREAL (CP) - Fourth-quarter earnings at travel company Transat A.T. Inc. jumped 59 per cent to $18 million, but the near-term outlook is cloudy as a result of hurricanes that damaged some sunbelt destinations.
• 'Travel Light, But Well (New York Times)
Internet sites -- like Packinglight.com, Orvis.com and travelessentials.com -- sell a wide array of travel gear.

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