Travel News Archive

• 'Travel search sites cast a wide net (San Jose Mercury News)
Metasearch sites are basically search engines for the travel industry, offering price and itinerary comparisons. With a single click, they enable you to search a wide variety of published air fares -- usually from a combination of airlines, online agencies and flight consolidators. Several also search for cruise, rental car and vacation package deals.
• 'Travel becomes adventure for women (Omaha World-Herald)
As more all-female groups try active vacations, the travel industry takes notice. Although women-only leisure travel is too diverse to track with hard numbers, anecdotal evidence of growth is apparent. An Internet search reveals dozens of women-centered travel groups.
• 'Route to a travel specialist starts with word of mouth (San Jose Mercury News)
How do you go about getting a good travel agent? Word of mouth -- a recommendation from a friend or business associate who has gotten happy results from an agent -- is a good option.
• 'What to do if ad for job downplays travel needs (Seattle Times)
Q: What if a company misrepresents the amount of travel in a job? I went to an interview for a job described as having a certain percentage...
• 'WEEKS OF SNOW, TRAVEL CHAOS AND POWER CUTS (Daily Mirror)
AND THIS IS THE WINTER FORECAST.. BRITAIN could face power cuts and travel chaos this winter amid record low temperatures and heavy snow. The Met Office has sent a severe weather warning to energy firms, predicting "significantly colder than average" December and January.
• 'US travel ban will hit ministers' families (New Zimbabwe)
THE United States plans to slap tough travel sanctions on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, members of his government and their extended families, a senior U.S. official said at the weekend.
• 'E.African Underwriters begins travel insurance (The Monitor)
East African Underwriters has introduced the Travel Guard and Oracle Med Health insurance to provides medical insurance for international travellers.
• 'Steering Through Clouds Air Travel Plays, on the Ground (RedNova)
There is more to commercial air travel than the airlines themselves.
• 'Mobile Times and Galileo Emirates introduce real-time pocket travel planner (AME Info)
Naz Nizaria, Senior Vice President of Galileo Emirates, (centre) shakes hands with Manoj Bhatia, Managing Director of Mobile Times at today's demonstration of PocketFlight, a software system for PDAs which uses the technological expertise of Mobile Times and harnesses Galileo Emirates' Web Services to access the Galileo system's extensive global travel database which comprises information on
• 'A sightseer's best sites: Answers to your travel questions on the Web (San Jose Mercury News)
All of us travelers need useful Web sites to click on -- the modern equivalent of a travel research library, only much more up to the minute.

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