Travel News Archive

• '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.
• 'Gas Prices & Holiday Travel (13WHAM Rochester)
(Rochester, N.Y.)- - Gas is nearly 70 cents more than it was this time last year. How's that going to affect your holiday travel plans?
• '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.
• 'City exceeds travel budget; mayor says benefits worth it (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
SOUTH EL MONTE - A three-week trip through the interior of Mexico, a five-day stay near Disney World and a handful of other trips put council members over their travel budget last year by $8,000, records show.
• '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.
• 'Jaguars players Durant, Collier arrested, left off travel squad (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Jaguars rookie linebacker Justin Durant and second-year offensive tackle Richard Collier were arrested in separate incidents early Saturday, and neither made the trip to New Orleans.
• 'Pacific Resort Aitutaki Voted the Best in Australasia at the World Travel Awards 03/11/2007 (PR.com)
Pacific Resort Aitutaki, Cook Islands ? a member of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World Collection ? has been awarded ?Australasia?s Leading Boutique Hotel? and ?Cook Islands Leading Resort? at the 2007 World Travel Awards ceremony held at the Leela Palace Kempinski in Bangalore India last night. On hand to receive the award on behalf of Pacific Resort Aitutaki at the [PR.com - November 03, 2007]
• '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.
• 'Thanksgiving travel not always homeward (The Herald News)
Thanksgiving is always one of the busiest travel times of the year. But not everybody is heading home to mom. Some folks go skiing, some head to Orlando or Vegas, others cram the streets of New York and Chicago to watch parades. And some far-flung families gather at a hotel instead of grandma's house.
• 'Poll Shows Majority of Vermonters Will Travel Abroad Despite Declining Dollar (WCAX-TV Vermont)
The American dollar reached an all time low on Friday when matched against its Canadian counterpart. So will Vermonters still travel abroad?

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