Travel News Archive

• 'Rough Summer Is On the Way for Air Travel (New York Times)
Planes are fuller, fares are rising and service frills are disappearing. Brace yourself for a summer of miserable air travel.
• 'Last Minute Travel Deals (Kiplinger Magazine via Yahoo! Finance)
Reviews a Web site that offers significant bargains on last minute arrangements for air travel, car rentals and lodging.
• 'The Power of Travel (Kansas City InfoZine)
Travel and tourism impact on the Kansas City area.
• 'Travel Agents In Vietnam For Familiarization (BruDirect.com)
Bandar Seri Begawan - Travel agents from the Zura Travel Service Sdn Bhd led by Hjh Siti Noraziah Borja, general manager, were in Vietnam for a familiarisation tour.
• 'Business Travel Made Simple (Harrisburg Daily Register)
(ARA) - The nickname for frequent business travelers - road warriors - says it all. Business travel is stressful. But experienced travelers develop their own ways of dealing with these pitfalls.
• 'House of Travel founder sets up slow exit strategy (Stuff)
Chris Paulsen is succession planning at House of Travel, the travel agency he founded in 1987.
• 'Summer air travel may be uncomfortable (UPI)
CHICAGO, May 20 (UPI) -- Summer air travel in the United States this year is expected to be much less comfortable and much more crowded than anytime in the last five decades.
• 'Travel ceases (CentralOhio.com)
WASHINGTON - An Ohio lawmaker whose travel is under scrutiny stopped accepting paid trips for himself and his staff shortly after questions were raised about who funded his trip to Scotland with lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
• 'American Express Business Travel Realigns (Incentive)
MAY 10, 2006 - -- American Express announced this week that it has created a global advisory services unit within its Business Travel division. Coming on the heels of big changes in the industry, notably Carlson Wagonlit Travel?s purchase of Navigant International last week , the purpose of the new advisory services unit will be to offer small-, medium- and large-sized companies a soup-to-nuts
• 'Alert on non-bonded travel agents (Stuff)
travellers are being warned to beware of booking holidays through non-bonded travel agents after the collapse of Auckland agency World Discovery Tours this month.

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