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• 'Lax airport security added to Bali travel alerts (The Sunday Mail)
AUSTRALIAN authorities have issued their third warning in as many weeks to avoid travel to Indonesia, this time citing lax security at Bali airport.
• 'Travel journalists visit (The Sun, Port Charlotte, Fla.) (Hotel Online)
By Dan Mearns, The Sun, Port Charlotte, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 23--PORT CHARLOTTE -- Of the two national travel writers who won trips to the area from the Charlotte County Visitor's Bureau, one visited in November and the other is coming in February.
• '2% drop in air travel may signal slowdown (Bangkok Post)
The number of air passengers through five key Thai airports during the first two months of the high travel and tourism season, October and November, fell 2.10% to 8.47 million, indicating a possible slowdown if not stagnation in the country's tourism industry.
• 'Still No One-Stop Travel Search (WebProNews)
Though travel bookings remain the largest component of e-commerce, generating over of third of the $145 billion US online market, no single travel search engine (TSE) has emerged as the best one-stop shop for finding the best rates on airfare, hotels, or car rentals, says Consumer Reports WebWatch. The bottom line is, says WebWatch, you'd better shop around.
• 'Air Travel In 2006: New Gimmicks, New Fees (WCCO)
(WCCO) With free meals long gone and other perks flying away soon, travel experts say airlines will need to get even more creative in finding ways to squeeze extra dollars out of customers.
• 'Just Go Get Lost! Storyteller McDonald Finds Success in Travel (Ellsworth American)
ELLSWORTH ? John McDonald wanted a different title for his latest book. The Portland storyteller wanted to call it ?Get Lost! A Different Kind of Travel Book.?
• 'CONSUMER TRAVEL: Stronger dollar, cheaper Europe (The Charlotte Observer)
Favorable exchange rates and huge increases in the number of trans-Atlantic flights are fueling hope that travel to Europe in 2006 will cost less than this year.
• 'Travel warnings as severe weather heads north (The Herald)
The cold weather that has swathed much of England in snow reached Scotland last night with travel warnings issued as plummeting temp-eratures made driving treacherous.
• 'Boston College DE skips court date to travel to bowl (ESPN)
Boston College DE skips court date to travel to bowl by Associated Press BOSTON -- A Boston College football player who skipped a court appearance on a drunken driving charge to travel to the MPC Computers Bowl was ordered to appear after he returns from Idaho, a spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney said. Defensive...
• 'Former travel agent could face jail term (The Times-Reporter)
A lack of paperwork could land former New Philadelphia travel agent Drusilla ?Dee? Ritenour in jail for 30 days.

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