Travel News Archive

• 'Travel gurus make predictions for 2008 (USA Today)
The travel gurus are looking into their crystal balls for the new year. Here are a few of their predictions.
• 'Quebec Residents Win Free Travel After Snow Blankets Montreal (Bloomberg.com)
Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Thousands of Quebec residents won free vacations after snow blanketed Montreal on New Year's Day, qualifying them for refunds under a travel company's promotion.
• 'Tales of train travel misery (BBC News)
Train travellers share their experiences of travel disruption caused by over-running engineering work.
• 'Richard West's Travel Expenses for Trips to Greece, Singapore, Australia and Peru (Washington Post)
This is a sample of some of the documents associated with one of the most expensive trips taken by W. Richard West Jr., the director of the National Museum of the American Indian. In June, 2005, West took a 15-day trip to Greece, Peru and Australia. He said that he paid for his travel to Greece w...
• 'MFS's Global Travel buy complete (Adelaide Now)
MFS's travel and hospitality arm, Stella Group, has completed its acquisition of the UK travel company Global Travel Group.
• 'Check Out These New Travel Trends (WTAE ThePittsburghChannel.com via Yahoo! News)
If you're going to try out the hottest trends in travel, you need to know the lingo, including "stay-cation," "climate sight-seeing" and "baby-moon."
• 'Wotif.com extends Travel.com.au offer (AAP via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Online travel agent Wotif.com Holdings has extended its offer period for its $54.8 million takeover of Travel.com.au.
• 'Travel Book Publishers Try to Reclaim the Web (New York Times)
The Rough Guides and Lonely Planet series of travel books play catch up on the Web, after worries about giving away content.
• 'Wotif.com Extends Offer Period For Travel.Com.Au Takeover (Nasdaq)
(RTTNews) - Australian online travel agent Wotif.com has extended the length of its acquisition offer for Travel.com.au Ltd (TVL). The company says the offer, which was due to close January 11 will now remain open until January 31.
• 'Kenya travel advice strengthened (BBC News)
The Foreign Office warns against all but essential travel to Kenya as violence there continues.

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