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• 'Britain: BBC Buys Travel Guidebook (New York Times)
The British Broadcasting Corporation bought a travel guidebook company, Lonely Planet, gaining a catalog of 500 travel guides from Antarctica to Zimbabwe to expand travel coverage on television and the Web and expand outside Britain. BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, acquired 75 percent of the publisher from Tony and Maureen Wheeler, who founded the company in 1972, and John ...
• 'BBC buys travel publisher Lonely Planet (Stuff)
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corp, bought Lonely Planet in a deal that values the travel publisher at about £100 million ($NZ271 million), a person familiar with the talks said.
• 'CORRECTING and REPLACING washingtonpost.com Launches Business Travel Section (Finanzen.net)
Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. The corrected release reads: WASHINGTONPOST.COM LAUNCHES BUSINESS TRAVEL SECTION Portfolio.com to provide content for new section dedicated ...
• 'City travel card cost to hit £7m (BBC News)
The cost of developing a city travel and leisure card for Nottingham will reach £7m, officials say.
• 'Orbitz CEO Touts Travel Tools (US News & World Report)
The online travel firm expands beyond fare searches to help passengers navigate crowded skies.
• 'BBC buys travel publisher Lonely Planet (Taipei Times)
The commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corp has bought a 75 percent stake in the Lonely Planet travel guides, the corporation announced yesterday.
• 'European Travel Stocks Climb, Led by Air France, TUI; UBS Falls (Bloomberg.com)
Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- European travel and leisure stocks rose, led by Air France-KLM Group after Goldman, Sachs & Co. advised buying the airline's shares on speculation a drop in the last two months doesn't reflect the earnings outlook.
• 'Australia's Wotif bids for Travel.com (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Australia's Wotif.com Holdings Ltd said on Monday it planned to make a takeover offer for online travel agency Travel.com.au Ltd .
• 'Travel insurance cost is a bargain if trip turns into a disaster (New York Daily News)
Travel insurance makes your trip more expensive, but may be a bargain if a trip turns into a disaster. Related: Package deals: What's included?
• 'Looking For A Travel Deal? Have Your Browser Do The Walking... Out Of The Country (Addict 3D)
With the Internet, we now have a whole range of options when we need to book travel, ranging from online travel services to "name your own price" services.

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