Travel News Archive

• 'US consumer safety boss orders probe into 'gift travel' (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The head of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission on Friday ordered an ethics probe of the agency after she was accused of taking "gift travel" from industries regulated by safety watchdog.
• 'The novel is your ticket to real travel (Times Online)
If you buy a ticket and travel to another country, you are likely to see the monuments, the palaces and the squares, the museums and the landscapes and the historical sites. If you are lucky, you may have a chance to conduct some conversations with the local people.
• 'Hey, Travel & Leisure: Bite our Mini-Apple (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Dear survey gurus at Travel & Leisure magazine, Thank you for featuring Minneapolis and St. Paul in your new survey, "America's Favorite Cities 2007." Just being included is flattering, considering that you left off Houston (one of the biggest and most diverse U.S. cities) and Memphis (also diverse, and one of best). And oh, what a great boost it is to our collective local ego to get to kick ...
• 'Organize your travel itinerary with WorldMate (Los Angeles Times)
One sheet of paper contains flight info; another gives hotel details; and another, the rental-car company. It's the paper trail we thought we eliminated when we went "e." WorldMate, which I recently downloaded to my Blackberry, creates order out of a chaotic travel itinerary.
• 'Can Cook, Will Travel (Washington Post)
On Tuesday, peripatetic chef and Travel Channel personality Anthony Bourdain will drop in at the Capital Food Fight celeb-chef battle. Price tag for the feast: $175. But you won't have to drop that kind of cash, because it's sold out.
• 'Vacation travel to grow despite rising prices (Seattle Times)
Leisure trips and travel spending are expected to continue modest growth through 2008, but travel preferences are changing, according to...
• 'Motorists who regularly travel over the Interstate 64 twin bridges... (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Motorists who regularly travel over the Interstate 64 twin bridges in Franklin County might want to consider taking alternative routes come Monday. That's when a repair project involving the bridges that cross the Kentucky River is to begin. Workers will be replacing the expansion joints at the east ends of the two-lane bridges, which were built in 1963. They'll start with the bridge used by ...
• 'Apex court lets Monica Bedi travel out of village (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday gave Monica Bedi, underworld don Abu Salem's former partner, permission to travel to any part of the country for a job, ending her virtual confinement in her ancestral village in Punjab.
• 'Traders want to revive travel to Manila via Pampanga Bay (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)
SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga ? If travel between Manila and Pampanga or Bataan can be done via the Pampanga and Manila bays, why not do it?
• 'Air New Zealand Scoops World Travel Award (Scoop.co.nz)
Air New Zealand has been named Australasia's Leading Business Class Airline at the 14th Annual World travel Awards.

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