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• 'China's Internet travel market expected to grow by 70% (People's Daily)
The value of China's online travel market is to reach 3.84 billion yuan (519 million U.S. dollars) this year, with a projected growth rate of 70.7 percent, according to a nationwide survey. The survey showed that China's online trav ...
• 'CONTINUED GROWTH FORECAST FOR MIDEAST TRAVEL AND TOURISM IN 2008 (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Middle East   travel and tourism industry has signalled continued growth rates for 2008 despite it will be moderately impacted by repercussions of the ongoing global credit crunch, according to industry business leaders.
• 'U.S. corporate travel managers expect higher airline fares (International Herald Tribune)
Three-quarters of U.S. corporate travel managers said in a recent survey that they expect airline mergers to result in higher fares and more than half expect the quality of service to suffer.
• 'DAVOS-Travelport CEO sees no major travel slowdown (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
DAVOS, Jan 22 - Travelport, a services firm owned by Blackstone Group LP , sees no major impact on travel as a result of an economic slowdown, its president and chief executive said on Tuesday.
• 'Mountain State has to travel for regional tournament (The Register-Herald)
NAIA Division 1 No. 1 Mountain State University will travel to South Carolina again in March for the NAIA Independent Regional Tournament.
• 'Hud scores Gains From End-To-End E-Gov Travel Services (Business Travel News)
The Department of Housing and Urban Development already has seen benefits from the General Services Administration's end-to-end program it rolled out Oct. 1. The E-Gov Travel Services program has cut HUD transaction fees by more than half after transitioning it to an online booking program.
• 'Continued Growth Forecast For Mideast Travel And Tourism In 2008 (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News)
Travel and tourism industry has signalled continued growth rates for 2008 despite it will be moderately impacted by repercussions of the ongoing global credit crunch, according to industry business leaders.
• 'Internet travel to grow by 70% (China Daily)
The value of China's online travel market is to reach 3.84 billion yuan ($519 million) this year, with a projected growth rate of 70.7 percent, according to a nationwide survey.
• 'Profiles In Travel Management: Policy, Rearden Tool Help Upgrade Travel Program (Business Travel News)
JANUARY 22, 2008 -- ConAgra Foods has rolled out a new global travel policy and online travel procurement platform that has driven up adoption levels, increased preferred supplier usage for leverage in future negotiations and enabled the company to begin to corral meetings and events expenditures and procure ancillary travel services online.
• 'Agencies Are Reminded There's Little Elbowroom on Air Travel (Washington Post)
Tighter travel rules for federal employees appear to be in the works.

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