Travel News Archive

• 'China, Taiwan sign historic deals on travel (AFP via Yahoo! News)
China and Taiwan signed historic agreements on Friday that from next month will see thousands more people travel every day between the two rivals.
• 'Have tickets, will travel (MLB.com)
Have tickets, will travel
• 'Matinee idol of the travel book (Guardian Unlimited)
'A heartbreakingly brilliant travel writer' ... Norman Lewis. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe
• 'Schensul: How to deal with travel snoring (The Record)
The e-mail opened with the question: Had I ever covered ?socially disruptive snoring [and] how it can ruin traveling and the vacation experience itself?? Well, no, I hadn?t even known there was such a category for snoring. And I hadn?t considered snoring in the context of travel, either.
• 'Jet Air Adds Mumbai-Shanghai Flight on Business Travel Demand (Bloomberg.com)
June 14 (Bloomberg) -- Jet Airways (India) Ltd. , the nation's biggest domestic carrier, starts a daily Mumbai-Shanghai service today, its first Chinese route, to meet rising corporate demand for travel between the world's two most-populous countries.
• 'Sports Travel Cut by Rising Fuel Costs (WHSV Harrisonburg)
The Valley Blaze softball team's season is in full swing, but like other travel teams, they won't be playing that far from home right now. Parents got together and came to that conclusion because of the high price of gas. They have to pay $400 dollars every season just for their daughters to play, but that's not all. They say that each tournament costs them an additional $150... and that's just ...
• 'Kenner moves to cite travel trailers (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Kenner officials are poised to begin citing about 100 people who missed the May 31 deadline to remove travel trailers from their property, fueling a regional crackdown on the temporary housing as Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary approaches.
• ''Smart' games geared to little boys, girls ease travel woes (USA Today)
If you plan to travel with a preschooler or kindergartener, instead of filling a bag full of coloring books, puzzles and find-the-differences cards, you could pack the same kind of activities in a more compact manner by grabbing Smart Boy's Gameroom or Smart Girl's Playhouse, two Nintendo DS games by UFO Interactive.
• 'East-west travel limited; I-80 expected to hold (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Travel into Iowa City is discouraged for necessary traffic. Use Interstate 80 for east-west travel through Iowa City / Coralville.
• 'Davie Travel Agent Offers Free Orlando Vacations (NBC 6 Miami)
A Davie travel agent is giving away free hotel rooms in Orlando to any South Florida family that wants it. Lisa Hegert, owner of Florida Getaways travel, says she is giving away the 3-day and 2-night hotel vouchers so families can still go on summer vacations during these hard economic times.

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