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• 'Online windows make travel insurance easier (Hindustan Times via Yahoo! India News)
INSURING YOUR travel in a foreign land can save you the time and the trouble of finding your way. Now, buying your travel insurance has become easier -- you can buy it online through a travel portal. While insurance companies have alawys provided online purchases of insurance, it's always been a somewhat cumbersome process.
• 'Travel agency fined $150,000 in death of scuba trip customer (Cyber Diver News Network)
SEOUL, Korea (12 Oct 2007) -- Seoul Central District Court ruled Friday that a travel agency is obliged to take 30 percent responsibility for a customer's death while on scuba diving trip. It also ruled that the company should pay 140 million won to the victim's family in compensation.
• 'E-N wins 2 awards for travel-writing (San Antonio Express-News)
Winter D. Prosapio, freelance humor and travel writer, won the Society of American Travel Writers' Lowell Thomas gold award in the Travel by Road category for "Summer of the Gypsies."
• 'Travel essay collection brings the world -- and beyond -- to life (The Charlotte Observer)
"The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys" (Penguin Paperback Original. $16. 384 pages), edited by Klara Glowczewska Travel heightens one's senses. It minimizes the mundane and elevates what would be everyday encounters at home to items of significance, to be preserved forever, vividly, in memory. A chat with a stranger, a meal, a walk through town, all stand out when journeying ...
• 'Feeling lost? Test your travel smarts (USA Today)
Do you know your geography? Then test your knowledge and visit some of our favorite online travel/geography quiz sites ...
• 'Travel essays make the world come alive (AP via Yahoo! News)
"The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys" (Penguin Paperback Original. $16. 384 pages), edited by Klara Glowczewska: Travel heightens one's senses. It minimizes the mundane and elevates what would be everyday encounters at home to items of significance, to be preserved forever, vividly, in memory.
• 'Readers Pick Best in Travel (Fashion Wire Daily via Yahoo! News)
The results are in, and the best destinations, hotels, islands, cruises and airlines - according to the readers of Conde Nast Traveler, that is ? have been announced just in time for holiday travel planning.
• 'Violators of ban on Cuba travel sentenced (Miami Herald)
A South Florida businessman was sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison Friday morning for conspiring in a scheme to violate Cuba travel restrictions through licenses of bogus churches.
• 'Travel news in brief (Daily Telegraph)
The latest travel news in brief, from new air routes to French strikes.
• 'Travel agent worried about proposed U.S. rules (CBC Prince Edward Island)
A Charlottetown travel agent who does bookings for Cuba says his sales will take a hit if U.S. authorities demand passenger lists from Canadian airlines.

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