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• 'Travel smartcards for youngsters (BBC News)
New smartcards for free bus and tram travel are introduced for 11-18-year-olds to crack down on bad behaviour.
• 'New Website Provides Gay Tips for Travel Industry (The Advocate)
This week GayComfort, a new training and accreditation system, was launched, according to a press release from Web Wire. The site teaches businesses in the travel industry innovative and efficient ways to approach LGBT people and their common travel issues.
• 'Travel Q&A: Take extra precautions in Kenya, UW expert says (Seattle Times)
What do people planning trips to Kenya need to know about the situation on the ground? Whether to cancel, postpone or go ahead with travel...
• 'Fetch partners with AAA travel services on Web 2.0 upgrade (Computer Business Review)
The project covers 60 AAA, a motoring and leisure travel organization, clubs and will provide enhanced travel reservation system technology for over 8,000 AAA travel agents in the United States and Canada.
• 'TUI to Raise EU450 Million Using TUI Travel Shares (Update3) (Bloomberg.com)
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- TUI AG plans to raise 450 million euros ($663 million) by selling bonds exchangeable for part of its stake in TUI Travel Plc as lower-rated companies turn to the equity-linked market for funds.
• 'Move Over, Porn: Online Travel Sales Up (ABC News)
Americans finally made more travel purchases online than off in 2007.
• 'EARLY BIRDS GET A FREE TRAVEL DAY WITH EURAIL (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance)
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• 'Judge orders travel agency to pay damages to holidaymakers (Times of Malta)
A travel agency has been ordered to pay four Maltese holidaymakers ?8,435 (Lm3,621) in damages between them because it had failed to inform them they needed a visa to board a cruise liner to Alaska.
• 'Travel + Leisure Golf Ranks Promontory No. 6 on 2008 List of 'America's Top 100 Golf Communities' (Centre Daily Times)
Promontory, Utah's family-friendly, luxury, second-home community overlooking historic Park City, is once again in the top 10 of Travel + Leisure Golf magazine's "America's Top 100 Golf Communities" list for the third consecutive year, ranking No. 6 in the magazine's 2008 edition.
• 'Early Birds Get A Free Travel Day With EURAIL (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News)
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