Travel News Archive

• 'New US Travel Alert for Israel, Palestinian Territories (Voice of America)
The U.S. State Department has issued a new warning for U.S. citizens considering travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories. In a statement Friday, the State Department said the fresh warning supersedes a previous travel alert for the region issued in January.
• 'Travel Insurance (ABC 15 Phoenix)
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• ''1,000 Places to See Before You Die' Author Lives for Travel (WOAI)
DALLAS (AP) -- Ever since her family's clunky station wagon pulled out of their upstate New York driveway when she was 4 and headed to the beaches of Atlantic City, Patricia Schultz has been hooked on travel.
• 'Airlines' Answering Services Worsen Travel Woes (NPR)
The frustration of summer air travel is increased by the airlines' electronic answering systems. The Department of Transportation says that U.S. airlines are canceling and delaying more flights, losing more luggage, and bumping more passengers than ever before.
• 'State Department Issues Travel Warning for Israel (Fox News)
The U.S. State Department is warning Americans traveling to Israel to use extreme caution in Jerusalem, avoid the West Bank and if already in Gaza, to get out immediately.
• 'Train travel up in U.K due to environment concerns (Calcutta News)
Pressure from green groups and train companies appears to be making a dent in the internal U.K air travel industry.
• 'U.S. warns on travel to Israel, Palestinian areas (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The United States issued a fresh travel warning for Israel and the Palestinian territories on Friday to include American journalists and aid workers after a spate of violence and political instability.
• 'Yearning for 'authentic' travel leads to trend of geotourism (Boston Globe)
Traveling to a seaside New England clam shack for fried clams. Listening to jazz in New Orleans. Visiting a small organic coffee farm in Guatemala.
• 'Road Trip, planning is the key to fun family travel (Carroll County Online)
Tracy Bauhof of Uniontown and her husband have traveled as far as Maine and Nova Scotia with their two children, Billy, 10, and Madeleine, 7. And every summer they hop into the car for the annual trek to Bethany Beach, Del. or Ocean City.
• 'Haneef's wife may travel to Australia (Hindustan Times)
Firdous Arshiya, the wife of Bangalore doctor Muhammad Haneef, may travel to Australia as police there have formally charged him in connection with the failed British terror plot.

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