Travel News Archive

• 'Web travel tips for Veterans Day (AP via Yahoo! News)
Veterans Day is coming up, with parades and solemn observances you can attend in Washington and elsewhere around the nation. You just have time to make your travel plans with a little help from the Internet.
• 'Talk About Travel (Washington Post)
Post travel editors and writers field questions and comments every Monday at 2 p.m. ET.
• 'Global Dignitaries and Travel Industry Leaders to Participate at 2nd World Tourism Marketing Summit in Beijing, China, ... (Business Wire via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Global Dignitaries and Travel Industry leaders representing Airlines, Hotels, Tour Companies as well as Ministers of Tourism and delegations, will gather next week in Beijing, China to participate in the historic 2nd World Tourism Marketing Summit, Oct. 28-30, 2007. The President of the United Republic of Tanzania, H.E. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, is the Summit's Honorary Global Chair.
• 'United Airlines Offers Advice to Customers Affected by California Wildfires and Issues Travel Waiver (FinanzNachrichten)
CHICAGO, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For the convenience of its customers and in light of wildfires, United is offering advice for those customers beginning and ending their travel at many airports in southern California.
• 'Siemens To Press For Universal Travel Cost Vs. Revenue KPI (Business Travel News)
OCTOBER 22, 2007 -- A senior Siemens executive will plead tomorrow for buyers to introduce a worldwide standard key performance indicator that calculates travel and entertainment costs as a percentage of increased revenue from new orders and sales.
• 'Olympics chiefs set to ban all car travel (Times Online)
The team organising the London Olympics in 2012 is adopting the most aggressive anticar policy ever applied to a major event in an attempt to deliver a permanent shift in people?s travel habits.
• 'Holiday Travel Planning Help on the Web (Yahoo! Tech Advisors)
I hate to be the bearer of obvious, stress-inducing news, but the holidays are closing in?especially if you're planning to travel during them to see family and friends. It's time to secure travel reservations, and the web is full of travel tools to help. The folks at Farecast say the more leeway you have on which day you travel, the better shot you'll have at decent fares.  Which leads ...
• 'Michigan Travel Site Sets Visitation Record (Michigan Technology News)
LANSING - Michigan Travel web site, Michigan.Org, over the weekend broke the single user record set during 2006, with more than 10 million sessions served. The average daily visit rate is 35,375, up from 28,460 set a year ago.
• 'Comment period extended for travel plan (Ravalli Republic)
This time of year, the only thing on a lot of people's mind is hunting. That's why many groups requested more time to comment on the Bitterroot National Forest's proposed travel plan.
• 'Click for a trip: travel portals offer the world in festive season (Express India)
Click for your trip! Increasing number of Indians are logging on to travel sites this season, which in turn, are offering special packages and freebies for those eager to pack their bags to the calm backwaters of Kerala, cool locales of Manali or the sunny sands of Pattaya in Thailand.

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