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• 'CORRECTED - Travel firms see limited impact from NYC strike (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
In NEW YORK story headlined "travel firms see limited impact from NYC strike" please read in third paragraph Cristyne Nicholas...instead of...Cristine Nicolas...(corrects spelling)
• 'AAA: Record number to travel for holiday (Triangle Business Journal)
Despite high gasoline prices across the state, North Carolinians are still expected to travel in record numbers this holiday season.
• 'Travel Q & A (San Jose Mercury News)
Q We're traveling to Egypt. What should we know about security? And how can we find a Catholic church? A. There are no travel warnings about Egypt on the U.S. State Department's Web site (www.travel.state.gov). In addition, your tour operator, Grand Circle Travel, says it has escorted more than 6,000 visitors to that country this year without problem.
• 'Travel firms eye NYC transit strike (TVNZ)
Hotels, airlines and other travel-related businesses that serve New York said the transit workers' strike that shut down the city's buses and subways on Tuesday has had a limited impact.
• 'New licenses for travel trailer sales temporarily halted in La. (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ? Hoping to protect Louisiana businesses and stem an onslaught of out-of-state trailer salesmen setting up shop after the hurricanes, a state panel on Tuesday halted the issuance of new licenses for people to sell motor homes and travel trailers.
• 'Deal of the day: iPod cable travel kit for $19.49 (CNET)
Buy.com has the cheapest price on this iPod cable travel kit by about $10, plus it's offering a $20 rebate.
• 'Discount Travel Web Sites Offering Last-Minute Deals (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
The busy holiday travel season is upon us, and fares are pricey.
• 'Misawa travel agency gets new name, new space (Stars and Stripes)
MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan ? Base residents can still make travel plans for Sapporo?s dazzling snow festival or a spring break Beijing tour; they just need to use a different door now.
• 'Suyitno to get travel ban (The Jakarta Post)
JAKARTA: The National Police have requested that a travel ban be imposed on graft suspect Comr. Gen. Suyitno Landung, who allegedly engaged in abuse of power when investigating a scandal involving state-owned Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) in 2003.
• 'EU to Expand Air Travel With Balkan Nations, Norway, Iceland (Bloomberg.com)
Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union agreed to deregulate airline travel with eight southeastern European nations, Norway and Iceland, seeking to boost air traffic and tourism.

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