Travel News Archive

• 'FAU president institutes freeze on hiring, travel, equipment purchase (Sun-Sentinel)
Florida Atlantic University President Frank Brogan is instituting a hiring freeze and a freeze on all travel and equipment purchases to stem an anticipated budget shortfall.
• 'Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan s Top 5 travel picks for 2008 (Los Angeles Times)
The host of network television s most popular travel reality show and author of 'No Opportunity Wasted' shares his favorite destination picks for the year ahead. traveling upwards of 250,000 miles per year in his role as host of CBS' Emmy Award-winning series "The Amazing Race," Phil Keoghan knows a thing or two about up-and-coming and off-the-beaten-track adventure travel destinations. His ...
• 'Borderless travel among 24 states (Financial Times)
The Schengen zone - named after the Luxembourg village where a first agreement on passport-free travel was signed in 1985 - expanded last month to include 24 countries in December. The new members were Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Malta.
• 'Travel Picks: The top 10 IT places to visit in 2008 (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Looking for a new vacation spot this year? Try Mozambique, Oman, or even revisit Paris, all of which feature on a list of the top 10 must-visit destinations for 2008 from online travel site Concierge.com.
• 'Rail helps to slow growth of UK air travel (Financial Times)
The rate of growth in UK air travel is falling, as slowing consumer expenditure growth weakens the appetite for leisure travel, and rail becomes a stronger competitor on domestic routes.
• 'Travel news in brief (Daily Telegraph)
The latest travel news, by Charles Starmer-Smith.
• 'New ID rules may complicate air travel (AP via Yahoo! News)
Millions of air travelers may find going through airport security much more complicated this spring, as the Bush administration heads toward a showdown with state governments over post-Sept. 11 rules for new driver's licenses. By May, the dispute could leave millions of people unable to use their licenses to board planes, but privacy advocates called that a hollow threat by federal officials.
• 'China to see 22 million people travel by air during Spring Festival (People's Daily)
An estimated 22 million passengers are expected travel by air during the Spring Festival, 10 percent more than the same period a year ago, according to the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC). The seven-day Spri ...
• 'Search Engines Role In Travel Purchases (WebProNews)
Twenty million people in the UK used search engines for travel information in the first quarter of 2007, according to a new study from Google U.K. and comScore. Users on average make 12 travel related searches, visit 22 Web sites and take 29 days from the first time they search until they make a purchase. Forty-five percent of transactions happen four weeks or more after the first search. Time ...
• 'Travel Industry Spent $290,000 Lobbying (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The travel Industry Association of America, whose members include airlines, hotels and tourism agencies, spent $290,000 in the first half of 2007 to lobby the federal government, according to a disclosure form.

Back to Travel News Archive