Travel News Archive

• 'Attacks leave travel plans up in air for Benton graduate (Benton Courier)
Benton's Jamie Fugitt, right, and Amanda Tackett were going to enjoy time in London soon, but Tackett's travel plans are on hold after the bombings in London Thursday. Fugitt is currently studying in England.
• '09.19.05 County Tweaks Rules on Travel (KVIA)
EL PASO, TX. - County Commissioners redefine the rules governing travel and trips on the County's behalf. Commissioners will now have more accountability when they request and get reimbursed for travel.
• 'Student travel firm opens San Diego branch (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News)
Student travel company Explorica announced Monday the opening of a San Diego office and two management appointments.
• 'Travel club gets out of town but leaves baggage (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas) (Hotel Online)
Sep. 16--A travel club has finally closed its Northeast Tarrant offices, leaving a trail of broken promises and unpaid bills. Now former employees and a landlord are joining the ranks of those who say they were wrong to trust American Voyager Travel.
• 'Fall travel preview 2005 (MSNBC)
If you haven't taken your summer vacation yet, don't worry. Aside from being cheaper, fall travel can actually be a more pleasant way to spend your vacation days, depending on where you go.
• 'MELANIE WIKER JOINS HURLEY TRAVEL EXPERTS (Maine Today)
Portland ? Melanie Wiker of South Portland joins Hurley Travel Experts as a leisure travel consultant.
• 'CONSUMER TRAVEL WILL RETURN: How to keep your laptop secure (San Jose Mercury News)
It's hard not to experience anxiety when you're traveling with a laptop. A computer can certainly make life easier for travelers keeping an online travel journal, serial e-mailers and those who want to keep up with their jobs. But there are, as every laptop-toting traveler knows, numerous risks: accidental drops during security screenings, theft from a hotel room, loss in a taxi or restaurant or
• 'Pology.com editor works to put the 'human touch' back in travel mags (Online Journalism Review)
Bastardize "anthropology," take it traveling and put it on the Internet. You?re left with Pology.com. Yet this travel website is anything but a bastardization of its namesake.
• 'Tips for travel during a hurricane (USA Today)
Hurricane forecasting is like the story of "The boy who cried wolf". Residents and visitors may be asked to evacuate four or five times before a hurricane actually impacts the forecasted area, according to Andy Newman, media relations director for the Florida Keys & Key West Tourism Council. Most of the time a hurricane veers off in another direction or loses strength before it makes
• 'Educational travel firm Explorica adds SoCal office (BizJournals)
Explorica Inc., a student educational travel company, has added a new office in San Diego and hired two new managers in anticipation of future growth.

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