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• 'World's travel industry braces for bird flu (USA Today)
The world's travel industry says it's already working to ease fears over bird flu, upgrading air filters on planes and stockpiling drugs, hoping to head off a potential disaster.
• 'Travel For Business? You'll Pay More In 2006 (The Boston Channel)
travel costs will take a bigger bite out of company budgets next year, according to American Express.
• 'Liberty Travel Charters Flights, Rescues Hundreds of Vacationers Left Stranded by Hurricane Wilma (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Liberty Travel, the largest privately-owned leisure travel agency, is repatriating an additional 200 vacationers today f
• 'U.S. Issues Travel Warning for Indonesia (New York Times)
The United States warned Americans to avoid nonessential travel to Indonesia, saying a suicide bombing on Bali earlier this month showed that terrorists were still active.
• 'TRAVEL (San Jose Mercury News)
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• 'Strict travel policies are hurting families (CubaNet)
A new report by Human Rights Watch puts a human face on the suffering caused by travel restrictions imposed by the governments in Cuba and the United States. The two countries have different motivations for their policy, but both result in painful family separations.
• 'ZTA Plans to Hold Bigger Travel Expos (AllAfrica.com)
THE Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) is planning to engage a wider spectrum of stakeholders in the hospitality industry to make future travel expos much bigger events.
• 'Away Travel Info - The Hawthorns (FulhamMAD)
Ground info and travel news for those fans going to West Brom on Sunday. GROUND With the completion of the East Stand in 2001, the club achieved its objective in completely rebuilding the Hawthorns and making it a modern stadium.
• 'U.S. Warns Against Travel to Indonesia (AP via Yahoo! News)
The United States warned its citizens Thursday to avoid nonessential travel to Indonesia, saying a suicide bombing on Bali island earlier this month showed that terrorists were still active.
• 'Travel news in brief (Telegraph.co.uk)
Holidaymakers planning on hiring a car in the Balearics will face a new tax from January - a move the Association of British travel Agents warns could harm tourism to Spain.

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