Travel News Archive

• 'Travel can be cheap, fun experience (The State News)
Like clockwork, at the beginning of every year I get the urge to travel. Perhaps it?s the interminable Midwest winter, the start of a new year with new possibilities, or maybe it?s all in my head, but the world around me shrinks and I feel stifled.
• 'Marriott Says Net Falls, Cuts Forecast on Less Travel (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Marriott International Inc., the world's largest hotel company, said fourth-quarter earnings fell after it shut down fuel operations, and cut its profit and sales forecasts as business travel slowed.
• 'Travel Coaches Interest Forms Available (Garden City News)
The Garden City Centennial Soccer Club is looking for qualified coaches to head our new U10 travel teams. Tryouts for these teams will take place in June 2008 with league play beginning in September. Children eligible to tryout for these new U10 teams will celebrate their birthdays on or between August 1st, 1998 and December 31st, 1999.
• 'Travel guru RIck Steves, ACLU team up on marijuana (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Travel writer Rick Steves and the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington have formed a partnership to tackle a topic they call the equivalent of the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s: the criminalization of marijuana.
• '130 booths at travel fair (The Star)
VISITORS to the Malaysia Travel Fair (MATF) will have the chance to enjoy attractive travel packages from 26 participating agencies and organisations.
• 'The Best Adventure Travel Companies (BellaOnline)
These are the best adventure travel companies offering trips in the U.S. as well as internationally.
• 'Online travel sees offline touch for cruise (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Online travel companies trying to make inroads into the burgeoning cruise market are finding best results by involving human sales people rather than pushing resistant travelers to book expensive trips on the Internet.
• 'Fast ferries responsible for growth in sea travel (Tobago News)
The advent of the two fast ferries, the T&T Express and the T&T Spirit has been mainly responsible for a 16 per cent growth in sea travel between Tobago and Trinidad.
• 'TripAdvisor buys U.K. travel firm Holiday Watchdog (BizJournals)
Travel website operator TripAdvisor LLC has acquired British online travel company Holiday Watchdog, according to company officials.
• 'Travel industry awaits Bush's exit (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The U.S. travel industry is looking forward to the end of George W. Bush's stay in the White House.

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