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• 'Travel curbs 'won't stop flu pandemic' (Sydney Morning Herald)
Restricting air travel is unlikely to stop a flu pandemic, and even the fastest action will merely delay it by a few months, British researchers say. -
• 'Teens fail to make the travel grade (USA Today)
What city would you visit to tour the Louvre? If you answered Paris, you're doing better than two-thirds of the teenagers surveyed in a study commissioned by the AAA travel High School Challenge, an annual contest and scholarship program.
• 'Reporter's Notebook: Corporate Travel World 2006--CO Prez Address: GDS Model Must Change (Business Travel News)
MAY 01, 2006 -- Continental Airlines president Jeff Smisek last month during a keynote address to buyers and suppliers assembled in New York for BTN's 22nd annual Corporate Travel World conference listed the litany of woes that have burdened the legacy airlines since 2001?growth of low-cost carriers, war, SARS, high fuel costs, federal and local levies that outweigh "sin taxes" and a consequent
• 'Travel restrictions useless against bird flu: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Restricting air travel is unlikely to stop a flu pandemic, and even the fastest action will merely delay it by a few months, British researchers said on Monday.
• 'Air travel set to feel fuel pinch (The Telegraph)
New Delhi, May 1 : The tab for air travel is likely to get heavier with PSU oil companies raising aviation turbine fuel prices by 8.6 per cent today to cover up for the global oil boil. On April 1, prices were jacked up by Rs 831-1,015 per kl.
• 'HK Bourse: Press Release from China Travel Invest -02 (Dow Jones News via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance)
CHINA TRAVEL INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT HONG KONG LIMITED (Incorporated in Hong Kong under the Companies Ordinance) (Stock Code: 00308)
• 'Gullivers Travel shares hit record (Stuff)
Gullivers Travel Group said today it was expanding its corporate travel business, prompting its shares to rise to a record.
• 'Visitor Gas Vouchers Encourage SD Travel (KELOLAND)
Fuel prices can also be frustrating for people visiting South Dakota . Monday, Governor Mike Rounds kicked off a new tourism marketing campaign that will actually put gas money in the pockets of people who choose to travel to the state.
• 'Students, faculty travel to New Zealand (Daily Vidette)
Six students and one faculty member from the College of Business will travel to New Zealand on May 25 to help overseas companies set up marketing plans. Senior international business major Molly Wilkey will be going on the trip and said the project started out with a group of five professors that have come together across multi-disciplines to start an export project.
• 'Grounding air travel won't substantially slow spread of pandemic flu: study (CP via Yahoo! Canada News)
TORONTO (CP) - World leaders could face serious pressure to impose travel bans on affected nations in the early days of a flu pandemic. But even grounding virtually all air travel would only serve to moderately delay spread of a pandemic strain, a new study suggests.

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