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• 'Hawaiian, Aloha rank high among Travel+Leisure readers (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Hawaiian Airlines placed third and Aloha Airlines fifth in travel+Leisure's Best Domestic Airline survey, the magazine reported Tuesday.
• 'Queenstown celebrates travel award (NZCity)
Queenstown has been named the South Pacific's third favourite city in a poll of travellers. The popular South Island destination trails behind Sydney and Melbourne in the travel and Leisure Magazine survey.
• 'Three travel agents booked for fraud (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News)
Three unscrupulous travel agents, including a woman travel agent, have been booked for duping four persons to the tune of Rs 6.5 lakh on the pretext of sending them to Canada. Police have arrested one of them, while raids are being conducted to nab others. The case was registered after an inquiry conducted by the anti-fraud wing of the police. Complainant Raj Kumar, a resident of Jalandhar, along ...
• 'SideStep buys travel social network TripUp (BizJournals)
SideStep Inc. said Tuesday it acquired TripUp Inc., a community and social networking site dedicated to travel.
• 'Readers' travel snaps (News Interactive)
Bonne nuit ... Mark Wickett's family enjoyed great views from their apartment in Paris during their European holiday. Copyright Mark Wickett 2007. Send your travel snaps ?
• 'Qatar Airways presents awards to Kuwait travel, cargo agents (Gulf Times)
Business Reporter QATAR Airways has presented awards to 15 travel agents and three cargo agents in Kuwait for their ?valuable contribution? to the airline in the last one year.
• 'MPs to discuss chief auditor?s travel expenses (Financial Times)
MPs will tackle on Wednesday the controversial travel spending of Sir John Bourn, the auditor-general, after an official investigation into expenses that included Concorde flights and two dozen business trips accompanied by his wife.
• 'Restaurant, restrooms at I-87's Ardsley Travel Plaza reopen (The Journal News)
ARDSLEY - Restaurant and restroom services at the Ardsley Travel Plaza on Interstate 87 reopened at 1:15 p.m. They had closed shortly before 11 a.m. due to lack of water, the New York State Thruway Authority said.
• 'Travel Site SideStep Expands Brand by Getting Personal (BrandWeek)
CHICAGO ? Online travel site SideStep.com has begun spending some of the $15 million in private funding it raised last year to delve deeper into the social networking world with the acquisition of TripUp.com.
• 'Six killed during holiday travel period (Pioneer Press)
Six people were killed on Minnesota roads during the Fourth of July travel period, according to preliminary State Patrol crash reports.

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