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• 'World Tourism Organization Lists Malaysia as One of the Thirty up-and-Coming World Destinations for Travel and Tourism (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DUBLIN, Ireland----Feb. 5, 2006--Research and Markets has announced the addition of travel & Tourism International 2005 - Profile of Malaysia to their offering.
• 'Travel abroad may call for insurance policy (Poughkeepsie Journal)
If you're planning a cruise of the Caribbean, a package tour of China or a safari in Africa, you might want to add "buy travel insurance" to the list of the things you need to do before departure.
• 'Michigan travel briefs (Detroit Free Press)
Don't let your high school or college student book spring break trips online unless they first call the hotel directly or book through a reputable firm, warns travel agent Tracy Seibert of Suburban Travel in Rochester.
• 'Congressional Travel Ban Meets Resistance (AP via Yahoo! News)
The 17 members of Congress who went to Dublin, Ireland, on an Aspen Institute-paid trip last summer got a walking tour of the city. They also spent six or seven hours each of the four days in discussions with scholars and policymakers about U.S. relations with Europe and Russia.
• 'Cuba travel curtailed further (Miami Herald)
The U.S. Treasury Department this week began a crackdown on illegal travel to Cuba, suspending the license of one of South Florida's largest Cuba travel agencies -- La Estrella de Cuba.
• 'BLUESDAY, the STA Travel 24-Hr Student Airfare Sale Starts Midnight February 7th, 2006!!! (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
STA Travel, the worldwide expert in travel for students and young adults, is selling some of the lowest airfares ever released to the North American market on February 7th, 2006, in the BLUESDAY 24-hr blowout sale, promoting the STA Travel Blue Ticket.
• 'Congressional travel ban meets resistance (USA Today)
The 17 members of Congress who went to Dublin, on an Aspen Institute-paid trip last summer got a walking tour of the city. They also spent six or seven hours each of the four days in discussions with scholars and policymakers about U.S. relations with Europe and Russia.
• 'Malaysia Airlines To Offer Five MLN Seats At Travel Fair (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News)
Malaysia Airlines (KLSE:3786) is offering a total of five million seats for travel packages between March 1 and June 30 this year.
• 'The dream of time travel (Financial Express)
Time travel is one of the unfulfilled dreams of man. Science is breaking the conceptual as well as practical barriers to one dream after another.
• 'The 25 Most Influential Executives Of The Business Travel Industry, 2005 (Business Travel News)
JANUARY 23, 2006 -- The roster of the 25 decision makers who exerted the greatest sway over the corporate travel industry in the past year constitutes an awesome lineup.

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