Travel News Archive

• 'World Travel Awards: 12 Years Of Travel Benchmarking (Hospitality Net)
The World travel Awards is announcing the results of one of the world's most comprehensive travel trade polls of its kind, with the addition of new categories for business and first class products. This year saw ten new awards for business and ten for first class air travel, split by region. There were also 20 new business hotel categories, expanded to include major commercial cities across the
• 'Travel warning for Indonesia (The Scotsman: International News)
AUSTRALIA yesterday joined the United States in issuing travel warnings for Indonesia over fears that terrorists are planning another attack this year.
• 'Google, Yahoo, AOL target travel services (Corvallis Gazette Times)
FORT WORTH, Texas ? The big three online travel sites ? Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz ? are facing new competition from another trio of Internet heavyweights.
• 'Holiday Travel (KELOLAND)
Triple-A says high gas and travel prices won't keep Americans from visiting family and friends over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. South Dakota Triple-A spokeswoman Cheri Cihak says sagging consumer confidence and higher hotel and rental car prices will make holiday travel a bit less robust.
• 'State, Prosecutors Investigate Travel Agency Complaints (WRTV Indianapolis)
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Prosecutors are investigating complaints that a travel agency skipped town after taking thousands of dollars from clients for trips that never were booked.
• 'Busy travel seen for Thanksgiving (Fredericksburg.com)
Thanksgiving travel expected to increase.
• 'TRAVEL UPDATE (Sunday Mirror)
A NEW Government website has been launched listing affordable family deals in the school holidays to stop parents pulling their children out of class. The project called Every Lesson Counts is being run with the Association of British Travel agents and tour operators.
• 'Increase expected in Thanksgiving travel (Fox 12 Oregon)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Triple-A says Thanksgiving auto travel will hold steady, despite higher gasoline costs. Triple-A estimates more than 37 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this holiday, a slight increase from last Thanksgiving.
• 'Report says European travel growing; up 4.6% in first seven months of 2005 (Canada.com)
LONDON (AP) - International travel to European destinations has increased 4.6 per cent during the first seven months of 2005, with most growth attributed to short leisure trips, the World Travel Market reported Monday.
• 'As Thousands Travel, Airlines Hope for No Snags (NPR)
Thanksgiving is next week -- and that means it will be the busiest travel week of the entire year. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Kenneth Button, director of George Mason University's Transportation Policy, Operations, and Logistics Center, about airlines' passenger loading strategies to reduce boarding times.

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