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• 'Expedia(R) Corporate Travel Announces the 75 by 75 Guarantee (The San Francisco Examiner)
Today at the National Business travel Association's (NBTA) 39th Annual Convention and Trade Show in Boston , Expedia(R) Corporate travel, the fifth largest full-service travel management company, announced the 75 by 75 Guarantee, reinforcing its position as an industry leader in driving online adoption and ultimately savings for clients.
• 'Travel agency under scanner (The Telegraph)
Investigating officials have zeroed in on a travel agency ? somewhere in the Karaya area ? to crack the credit card fraud case.
• 'Reduced commission sends travel agents to court (Malta Today)
As the weather continues to heat up, a war of attrition appears to be brewing up between local travel agents and two established airlines on separate cases of heavily reduced commission and misleading price advertising.
• 'Why corporate travel managers care so much about compliance (USA Today)
Business Traveler column: With business travel as a major cost component for most corporations, managing expenditures has become a global, strategic effort. Many companies spend millions of dollars annually on business travel and any savings their travel manager can attain goes directly to the bottom line. In such a competitive environment, travel managers are often tight-lipped about their ...
• 'Sector Glance: Online Travel Mixed (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Shares of online travel company Expedia Inc. fell Monday after the company cut the size of its share repurchase plan due to the lack of acceptable financing.
• 'A passport rule leads to thousands of ruined travel plans (International Herald Tribune)
In January the government started requiring more Americans to have passports for travel abroad in an effort to thwart terrorism. By summer, more than two million people were waiting for passports; half a million had waited more than three months since applying for a document that in the past was typically ready in six weeks.
• 'A ban on domestic travel could delay the spread of a flu pandemic (News-Medical-Net)
A near total ban on domestic travel could delay the spread of a flu pandemic by a week or more, particularly if the outbreak originates in a regional town or small city such as Darwin, according to new modelling by Australian researchers.
• 'Seoul clamps travel ban on citizens (Gulf News)
South Korea has banned its citizens from travel to Afghanistan in the wake of the recent kidnappings of its 23 nationals, an official said yesterday.
• 'Visits to Travel Portals Increase in Singapore Mkt (Scoop.co.nz)
Singapore, 20 July, 2007 - According to Hitwise, the world?s leading competitive intelligence service, visits to Streetdirectory.com, an online mapping and travel guide, increased by 87% between the months of March 2007 and June 2007 by Singapore Internet users.
• 'SKorea to punish travel to Afghanistan (AFP via Yahoo! News)
South Korea, agonising over 23 of its citizens threatened with death by the Taliban, announced new rules to punish unauthorised travel to Afghanistan with possible jail terms.

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