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• 'Webjet's bid for travel.com.au (Sydney Morning Herald)
THE online travel agency Webjet is making a $42.3 million takeover bid for travel.com.au in an effort to create Australia's leading online travel agent.
• 'Carlson Wagonlit Travel awards 2Paths Solutions contract to create an online reservations application. (CanadaIT.com)
Business Announcement: Carlson Wagonlit travel awards 2Paths Solutions contract to create an online reservations application.
• 'GCAA Travel Basketball Try Outs (Garden City News)
GCAA will be conducting travel try outs for the 2007-2008 season as noted below. The teams formed will play in the Island Garden Super League with the season running from November 2007 through March 2008. Subject to participation, talent levels and available coaches, we expect to form two teams per grade. For grades with two try out nights, players must attend both nights.
• 'Travel directions given for Crisp-Southwest tilt (Cordele Dispatch)
CORDELE ? Crisp County High officials have offered travel directions for those planning to attend the Cougars? football game tonight at Thompson Field vs. Southwest Macon.
• 'High Court okays Durai's request to travel to UAE for work (Straits Times)
FORMER chief executive officer of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) T.T. Durai has been given permission by the High Court to travel to UAE for work.
• 'Toronto - Travel Guide (Terra.com)
The Toronto Film Festival runs September 6-15 and will show 349 films from 55 countries. The festival is now in its 32nd year and ranks with Cannes, Sundance, Berlin and Venice as one of the world's most influential. What are you waiting for? Check our Toronto travel guide and buy your ticket now.
• 'Travel agents duping youth on visa technicalities (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News)
37 youth allege they were promised work visas but taken abroad on tourist visas that landed them in jail As many as 37 youth from Hoshiarpur, Ropar and Kapurthala were presented in the office of DIG, Jalandhar Range, Narinder Pal Singh, by senior activists of Lok Bhalai Party (LBP) today afternoon. The youth alleged that they were duped by a woman travel agent of Garhimansowal village in ...
• 'Fiji Travel Advice (Scoop.co.nz)
Please find attached a copy of New Zealand's revised travel advice for Fiji. The risk level is unchanged. New information has been added about today's reinstatement of the public emergency regulations.
• 'Sector Glance: Online Travel Mixed (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Shares of online travel companies traded mixed Thursday, with Orbitz Worldwide Inc. gaining after a Lehman Brothers Equity Research analyst began covering the stock with an "Equal Weight" rating.
• 'Travel Experts Worry Airline Passengers Let Guard Down (NBC4 Washington, D.C.)
Next Tuesday will mark the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and since then, airports nationwide have received a dramatic overhaul in security measures, but some travel experts worry that many passengers have forgotten why U.S. airports are on alert.

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