A golf tournament sponsored by the Wellington travel Basketball Association will partially benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The tournament will be held on Sunday, Oct. 9 beginning at 1 p.m. at Madison Green Golf Course in Royal Palm Beach.
Oct. 2: travel Club Meeting. Tour company reps will talk about Greek Island and British Columbia tours. 2 p.m., Forest Springs Mobile Home Park Clubhouse.
A conference in Australia last week has focused attention on the growing global market share of organic agricultural produce and suggested that the travel and tourism industry look seriously at boosting its usage in food and beverage outlets.
BATON ROUGE - As it turned out, travel would have been a problem into Baton Rouge on Saturday since Ryan Airport was closed temporarily in the morning. But there could have been a football game on Saturday night as sunshine dominated Baton Rouge weather from 1 p.m. until sundown.
IT is getting more expensive to travel by air to your favourite holiday destination. Natural calamities can play havoc on oil prices resulting in higher oil surcharges. Security concerns too have resulted in higher airport charges worldwide.
The Chicago Tribune has won two awards in the 21st annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition for 2004-2005. Travel writer Alan Solomon received the silver award in the "best newspaper article on foreign travel" category for "Into Africa."
Margaret Klingenberger is president, owner senior travel consultant of Covington Travel Inc., 6214 Covington Road, a full-service travel agency that specializes in leisure travel.
China was still agonising this week over whether to grant permission to travel to the four mainland Catholic bishops invited by the Pope to attend the October synod on the Eucharist in Rome. Three of the bishops belong to the 'open' Church recognised by the Chinese government, while the fourth is a member of the underground Church and therefore not approved.
