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• 'Deal of the Week: Cashback card with travel insurance (Financial Times)
What?s the deal? A credit card offering cashback of up to 4 per cent as well as free worldwide family travel insurance. You have viewed your allowance of free articles. If you wish to view more, click the button below.
• 'Travel agents adopting service fee-driven business model (The Peninsula)
doha ? More and more travel agents in the country are now adopting the service fee-driven business model, according to Amadeus, a global leader in technology and distribution solutions for the travel and tourism industry.
• 'Travel, gems favoured by Asia's rising millionaires: study (AFP via Yahoo! News)
India and China have the world's fastest-growing populations of millionaires, with a penchant for luxury travel, gems and designer clothes, a study released in Asia on Wednesday said.
• 'Town with 3 hotels suing travel Web sites over tax (phillyburbs.com)
LYNDHURST, N.J. - Lyndhurst, a town with just three hotels, appears to be the first in New Jersey to sue Priceline, Expedia and other travel Web sites over local hotel taxes.
• 'MAS simplifies ways to travel (The Borneo Post)
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has simplified ways for passengers to travel via its enhanced Passenger Services System (PSS) which makes it easy to book and buy tickets, besides easing the check-in and boarding process.
• 'Top Shops In Summer's Travel Hotspots (Forbes)
Some vacationers travel purely to shop. Here are some of the coolest stores in this summer's hottest travel spots.
• 'DFAT warns against Zimbabwe travel (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has warned Australians not travel to Zimbabwe because of the high level of election-related violence in the African nation.
• 'Stoners, Like, Totally Solve Nation's Air Travel Woes (Wired News)
Marijuana advocates in Denver say air travel would be less stressful -- and passengers less likely to get unruly -- if airports installed marijuana lounges. If people can get hammered before flights, they argue, why can't they get stoned?
• 'Utell partners Mobile Travel Technologies for mobile hotel booking service (eyefortravel.com)
Utell has launched a mobile reservation tool to provide hoteliers with a means to reach potential customers on the move. According to a release, users visit a microsite ( mobile.utell.com ), specially designed by Mobile Travel Technologies Ltd (MTT), on their mobile device to view hotel information, images and rates.
• 'Credit frenzy, summer travel, could land passengers in trouble (ABC 15 Phoenix)
Ballooning credit card debt has economists concerned as more and more valley residents take off into the summer travel season.

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