Travel News Archive

• 'Sinking Feeling: Travel agency closes; cruise payments lost (Palatka Daily News)
Imagine booking the cruise of a lifetime only to find out the travel agency you used to book that cruise went out of business and left you high and dry.
• 'Travel is second nature (New York Daily News)
While the unbalanced schedule has created more intra-divisional games, it has made for a more disjointed travel schedule, with teams doing as much overnight flying to get to the next day's game as they ever have.
• 'World Health Organisation Releases Findings From Research Project On Travel And Blood Clots (Science Daily)
The World Health Organization recently released research into global hazards of travel. Findings indicate that the risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE) approximately doubles after travel lasting four hours or more. However the study points out that even with this increased risk, the absolute risk of developing VTE, if seated and immobile for more than four hours, remains relatively low ...
• 'Have games, will travel (Concord Monitor)
What makes a great travel game? It's got to be entertaining, even when played over and over. It has to be portable, of course, and packaged so that parts don't fall between the airplane seat cushions (magnetic game pieces help). And, to make our list, it's got to be clever.
• 'Travel Q&A: Can I buy travel insurance to cover a 6-month-long trip? (San Jose Mercury News)
Q. I'm going to Europe for six months. Is there any travel insurance I can obtain for that long?
• ''1,000 Places to See Before You Die' author lives for travel (The Pantagraph)
DALLAS -- Ever since her familyâ??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.
• 'Board reveals travel receipts (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
CARBONDALE ? Carbondale Area School District officials released requested travel expense receipts to The Times-Tribune on Friday. And while they reveal the Board of Directors stayed within its $6,000 budget limit for yearly travel expenses, one director?s $2,900 total has raised some hackles.
• ''Travel Talks' to focus on Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hattiesburg American)
Forrest General Hospital?s Spirit of Women will host ?Travel Talks: Rediscovering the Mississippi Gulf Coast? from 11:30 a.m. ? 1 p.m. Thursday at Southern Oaks House and Gardens, located at 1246 Richburg Road in Hattiesburg.
• 'Hurricane Season Travel Tips (Forbes)
The upside to visiting Mexico or the Caribbean in late summer: discounts. The downside? Hurricanes. Here's how to get one without the other.
• 'Air China Plans to Add Routes, Staff on Olympic Travel Demand (Bloomberg.com)
July 23 (Bloomberg) -- Air China Ltd., the nation's largest international carrier, will add routes and staff as the 2008 Olympic Games fuel demand for travel to its hub, Beijing.

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