Travel News Archive

• 'Travel businesses get new online domain (Seattle Times)
A new online domain for the travel industry is open for business. Airlines, theme parks, restaurants, tourism offices and others in travel...
• 'One-stop travel centre opening in Pratunam (Bangkok Post)
The country's first shopping centre for travel services is taking shape with plans to rent out 250 retail spaces to tourism business operators, particularly those that lack representative offices in Bangkok.
• 'MFAT revises travel advice to Indonesia (TVNZ)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has revised its travel advice to Indonesia following information that terrorist attacks in the country are in the advanced stages of planning.
• 'Aviation Industry Urged to Ease Travel Amid Stricter Security (RedNova)
Aviation industry urged to ease travel amid stricter security SINGAPORE, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The aviation sector should streamline travel procedures amid increasingly tight security measures against terrorism, said Singapore's Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong on Tuesday.
• 'Billboards promote Alaska travel (Seattle Times)
If you're in downtown Seattle today, you may see two new billboards by the Alaska Travel Industry Association. They show a vanity Alaska...
• 'Students may now receive funding and credit for travel to Israel, Kenya, Lebanon, and 9 other countries (The Harvard Crimson)
Under significant pressure from students and faculty, the College has repealed its policy of withholding funding and credit for travel abroad in countries identified by the State Department as particularly risky.
• 'Industry, travel agents sponsor "cruise night" (Seattle Times)
Travel agencies nationwide, including in Washington, are hosting what the cruise industry bills as the "World's Largest Cruise Night" on Oct. 19. It's...
• 'The Bottom Line / Hypertension and travel insurance (Haaretz Daily)
Most people think of "challenging sports" as bungee jumping or cliff-climbing. But if you read your travel insurance policy, which you probably have never done before, you'll find the insurers have a very wide view of "challenging sports."
• 'Grandmother of unclaimed girl to travel from Bolivia, holds out hope daughter is alive (New York Newsday)
The grandmother of a 4-year-old found wandering barefoot on a New York street after her mother vanished has not given up hope that her daughter is alive and will travel from Bolivia to make her granddaughter "feel like she's not alone, that she has family." Roxana Rivadineira, speaking by telephone Tuesday from her home in Cochabamba, said she doesn't believe authorities who say that Monica
• 'OUS students experience the world of travel (The Ironton Tribune)
Although it may seem all glitz and glamour, the travel business is hard work. That's a lesson that some Ohio University Southern students have learned first hand thanks to Ironton's travel World.

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