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• 'Fuel surcharges could push Canadians to alter summer travel patterns (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
MONTREAL - Canadians may vacation closer to home this summer as soaring gas prices for their cars and new airline fuel surcharges prompt a change in travel patterns, industry experts said Monday.
• 'Fuel surcharges could push Canadians to alter summer travel patterns (Canadian Business)
Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press May 12, 2008 - 6:58 p.m. MONTREAL - Canadians may vacation closer to home this summer as soaring gas prices for their cars and new airline fuel surcharges prompt a change in travel patterns, industry experts said Monday.
• 'Universal Travel Group Announces Conference Call to Discuss First Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results (Business Wire via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Universal Travel Group Inc. (OTCBB: UTVG) ("Universal Travel Group" or the "Company"), a fast growing travel services provider in China specializing in online and customer representative services to the travel service industry offering packaged tours, air ticketing, hotel reservation and air cargo transportation will host its conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET, on Thursday, May 15, 2008. Ms.
• 'BTN's 2008 Procurement Practices Survey: Applying Metrics To Travel Management (Business Travel News)
MAY 12, 2008 -- Negative financial expectations and positive results yielded by applying procurement practices to travel management are accelerating interest in what companies decide to measure, the models of measurement they devise and the tools they use to do so.
• 'Avoid travel to Lebanon (The New Straits Times)
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians have been advised to postpone all travel to Lebanon due to the highly volatile security situation in the country.
• 'Taiwan Travel Agencies Sue Angkor Airways Manager For Fraud (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News)
Nine travel service companies laid an accusation of fraud against Alex Lou, a managing director of Cambodia-based Angkor Airways Corp., at the Taipei District Prosecutors Office Monday after sustaining heavy financial losses caused by the airline's abrupt suspension of flights.
• 'TAIWAN TRAVEL AGENCIES SUE ANGKOR AIRWAYS MANAGER FOR FRAUD (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Regulations / Law   Nine travel service companies laid an accusation of fraud against Alex Lou, a managing director of Cambodia-based Angkor Airways Corp., at the Taipei District Prosecutors Office Monday after sustaining heavy financial losses caused by the airline's abrupt suspension of flights.
• 'Universal Travel Group Announces Conference Call to Discuss First Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results (wallstreet:online AG)
Universal Travel Group Inc. (OTCBB: UTVG) ("Universal Travel Group" or the "Company"),
• 'Talk About Travel (Washington Post)
Post travel editors and writers field questions and comments. On the itinerary this week: off-the-beaten-path sightseeing in Boston; tips on making those travel dollars stretch this summer; and a luxurious weekend at the Keswick Hall resort in Virginia.
• 'Demand Pictures Softening: Increasing Number Of Cos. Cutting Back Air Travel (Business Travel News)
MAY 12, 2008 -- The number of corporations scaling back air travel spending this year continues to grow, though many airlines said they have yet to see evidence of a dramatic corporate travel demand downturn.

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