Travel News Archive

• 'Tourism Committee to discuss travel agencies? commission (Gulf Times)
Staff Reporter THE Tourism Committee of the Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry (QCCI) is to discuss the commission paid to travel agencies, according to a report published in a local Arabic daily.
• 'Travel notes: Be ready for busy season (Post-Bulletin)
ionally, the next three months are the busiest time to travel, especially with shorter, scenic and holiday entertainment. This year is no exception. The October schedule is now available. Members will receive the newsletter in our mailing and others
• '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 ...
• 'It's personal: Book online or use a travel agent (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
ST. LOUIS -- Jenny Nord and Tom Steinberg took different avenues in planning their perfect vacations. She consulted a travel agent. He did it himself online. ...
• 'Yale restricts travel more than State Department (The Yale Herald)
ast summer, when a junior in Davenport, who wished to remain unnamed, had the opportunity to work for Nobel Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh, she found herself confronted with Yale?s travel warning list?a lengthy collection of 75 volatile areas that left her wondering whether she would be able to go.
• '3 sentenced in Cuban travel scheme (Miami Herald)
A Florida businessman will spend more than two years in prison for his role in a scheme to use fake religious organizations to get thousands of people permission to travel to Cuba.
• '20 travel secrets (part two) (The Observer)
My travel secret? It's that you're never too old to hitchhike. I've always loved the serendipity of it: not knowing where you will spend the night and the impossibility of planning anything.
• 'Cuba travel ban violator 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.
• 'The Titans Know How to Travel and Win (New York Times)
Head to the airport with a box of chicken, ready for a business trip.
• '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.

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