Travel News Archive

• 'Florida Travel Agents Fight Higher Bond on Cuba Trips (New York Times)
travel agents in South Florida filed a lawsuit against the state challenging a new law requiring them to post a one-time $250,000 bond and disclose the names of clients in order to continue their business with Cuba.
• 'Travel insurance fine print can have big teeth (Tacoma News Tribune)
Let?s say you?re a cautious soul and bought travel insurance for your trip. But when something unexpected happened ? for what you thought you were insured ? the insurance company declined your claim for a reason you never considered.
• 'OKI Launches Travel Planning Tool "Travel Compass" (Centre Daily Times)
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:6703) today announced its launch of "Travel Compass," a travel planning tool to be offered to local governments and travel agencies in Japan. Travel Compass is a tool to help individuals plan travel itineraries that meet their needs by utilizing information from existing tourism websites as well as information on locations and event dates.
• 'Typhoon lashes Taiwan, hitting schools and travel (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Typhoon Fung-wong slammed into Taiwan's east coast Monday, bringing fierce winds and heavy rains that forced the closure of schools and offices across the island and severely disrupted travel.
• 'New Role for Travel Sites: Matchmaker (New York Times)
Faced with the increasing cost and unpredictability of travel today, vacationers are using Web sites that connect them with traditional travel agents.
• 'Domestic travel activity softens (Scoop.co.nz)
Data just released by the Ministry of Tourism shows that New Zealand travellers spent $7.4 billion on travel within New Zealand in the year to March 2008, down 2.7% on the previous year.
• 'Passport cards good for travel to U.S. neighbors (Detroit Free Press)
If your foreign travel is limited to driving to Canada and Mexico or sailing on a cruise ship in the Caribbean or Bermuda, you don't need to pay $100 to get a passport. The U.S. Department of State this month began issuing its wallet-sized passport card, a $45 alternative ID that will work at those land and sea borders only.
• 'Travel (The West Australian)
Bali is enjoying a resurgence in tourism, thanks partly to an increasing number of Australians rediscovering the Island of the Gods. Australians are flocking to the resort island in droves, despite the Australian government maintaining its travel advisory warning tourists against visiting Indonesia.
• 'Germany faces massive air travel disruptions as union starts strike (EARTHtimes.org)
Frankfurt - Air travel in Germany is facing massive disruptions Monday after the giant ver.di trade union called on all Lufthansa employees at the aviation hubs Frankfurt and Hamburg to go on strike. Ver.di spokesman Harald Reutter Sunday announced t...
• 'Typhoon lashes Taiwan, hitting schools and travel (TODAYonline)
A Taiwanese woman clad in raincoat rides her bicycle against strong winds in Taipei. Typhoon Fung-wong slammed into Taiwan's east coast Monday, bringing fierce winds and heavy rains that forced the closure of schools and offices across the island and severely disrupted travel.

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