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• 'Travel's high-energy heiress in high demand (USA Today)
On a recent spring morning, Carlson Cos. CEO Marilyn Carlson Nelson picks up her office telephone for a 10 a.m. conference call. As one of the few female leaders in the mostly male-dominated travel and tourism industry, the high-energy heiress is in high demand.
• 'Travel planner put out for community use (Stuff)
An online travel planner built in New Zealand is morphing into a community website, just weeks after it was put on the web.
• 'Travel agents lose on grant (The Telegraph)
New Delhi, May 21 : Tour operators and travel agents are waking up to a new truth: the days for freebies are over.
• 'Travel packages hope to lure tourists wary of gas prices (Billings Gazette)
MISSOULA - The tourism office that serves northwestern Montana is marketing travel packages that it hopes will lure tourists who might otherwise stay home because of high gasoline prices.
• '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.
• 'Travel website offers tours to 'Noah's Ark' (WorldNetDaily)
A new travel website is now promoting summer tours to a Turkish site near Mount Ararat believed by many to be the fossilized remains of Noah's Ark.
• '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
• 'Armchair travel can be fun, inexpensive and cool (Salisbury Post)
You might say it's in my blood ? this yearning to travel, to see what appears around the next bend in the road.
• 'Rough summer is on the way for air travel (International Herald Tribune)
Brace yourself for a summer of miserable air travel. Planes are expected to be packed fuller than at anytime since World War II, when the airlines helped transport troops. Fares are rising. Service frills are disappearing.
• 'Business Travel Made Simple (Southwest Daily News)
(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.

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