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• 'Strong growth for AMEX business travel in Asia Pacific (Queensland Business Review)
American Express Business travel has reported a strong year in Asia Pacific with wins up 50 percent and sales up 10 percent year-on-year across the region for first six months of 2007.
• 'Rice Says She'll Soon Travel to Libya (Fox News)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday she hopes to travel soon to Libya for a trip that would mark full U.S. diplomatic acceptance of the North African country after decades of pariah status.
• '"1,000 Places" author lives for travel (Asbury Park Press)
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.
• 'Report endorses Defense Travel System; Pentagon to require use (Federal Times)
The Pentagon will move to require its civilian and military employees to use the Defense Travel System after an outside report won the department breathing room to fix the much-maligned system.
• 'Rice pares travel for Iraq, Mideast (AP via Yahoo! News)
If the U.S. government had a frequent flier program, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would be the obvious choice for its most prolific awards earner. Yet as the political debate over Iraq intensifies and the Bush administration moves ahead with a new Middle East peace bid, she has vastly curtailed her overseas travel.
• 'Travel Ban Relaxed but Trade Remains Limited (Institute for War and Peace Reporting)
Internal travel restrictions have been lifted in Turkmenistan allowing freer commerce between the regions, but NBCentralAsia experts say the country?s international border controls still need to be relaxed in order to boost foreign trade.
• 'Experience of a lifetime: WHS Educational Travel Club visits London and Paris; Plans new trip in '08 (Arizona Range News)
The Willcox High School Educational Travel Club recently returned from a fun filled, action packed nine-day trip to London, England and Paris, France. Twenty-two students accompanied by six adults participated on this inaugural adventure of a lifetime.
• 'BTN Names Dominion's Kelliher Travel Manager Of The Year (Business Travel News)
JULY 25, 2007 -- Business Travel News has named Dominion director of travel services Donna Kelliher the 2007 Travel Manager of the Year.
• 'Air travel industry rapped by MPs (The Scotsman)
AIRCRAFT passengers are more frustrated and dissatisfied than ever, an inquiry by MPs into air travel has concluded.
• 'Travel agency goes belly up, leaving Czech tourists stranded (Radio Prague)
Tuesday evening at Prague's international airport more than 200 Czech tourists who had geared up for package vacations abroad were given the bad news: their holiday was over before it had even begun. The development came after travel agency I'm travelling failed to pay for one flight, while a second was cancelled by the unpaid carrier, travel Service, outright.

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