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• 'Golf travel: Economic engine on Coast (The Biloxi Sun Herald)
A ccording to the National Golf Foundation, golfers spend $26.1 billion a year on golf travel, "75 percent of which goes to the hotel, transportation, and food and beverage industries." The same organization reports Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina are popular destinations, but golfers are quickly discovering the "Playground of the South" offers the nation's friendliest fairways and ...
• '"Winging it" travel blog begins (Denver Post)
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• 'Air taxis may get lift from persistent travel delays (The Post and Courier)
WASHINGTON ? Two companies launching light-jet service this month between smaller U.S. airports should have an easy time getting customers amid persistent record-breaking travel delays. Major carriers and some experts argue, however, that the success of Concord, Mass.-based Linear Ai...
• '60,000 throng NATAS Travel Fair, sales up 20% from last year (Channel News Asia via Yahoo! Asia News)
SINGAPORE: Some 60,000 people thronged the three-day annual NATAS Travel Fair, and 20 per cent more holiday packages were sold compared to last year.
• 'Dodd would end Cuba embargo, lift travel restrictions if elected (AG Weekly)
CORAL GABLES, Fla. ? Democrat Christopher Dodd pledged Saturday that as president he would end a decades-old trade embargo with Cuba and lift travel restrictions to the communist island.
• 'Travel bans hinder board appointments: PS (Fijilive.com)
Fiji?s Public Service permanent secretary Taina Tagicakibau says travel bans imposed by neighbouring countries has worsened the difficulty in appointing competent board members of state-owned enterprises.
• 'Thousands of tourists flout official Cuba travel ban (El Paso Times)
HAVANA -- Barack Obama, if elected president, would lift restrictions on visits by Cuban-Americans to the hemisphere's only communist country. A growing chorus of Democratic and Republican lawmakers would go even further, loosening the U.S. embargo enough to allow all Americans to travel to Cuba.
• 'Future Money to aid Cleartrip travel products (Business Standard India)
Online travel agency, Cleartrip, has joined hands with the Kishore Biyani promoted Future Money, a non-banking finance company, to provide finance on an equated monthly instalment (EMIs) basis to people wanting to buy its travel products.
• 'How to Save Money When You Travel This Summer (Benton Evening News)
(ARA) - The high price of gas has a lot of people rethinking their travel plans this summer, but $3 per gallon of gasoline doesn't mean you have to deny yourself a good time.
• 'ND QB Jones doesn't travel to UM (Sports Illustrated)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Demetrius Jones, the Notre Dame quarterback who lost the starting position after a poor performance in the opener, didn't travel with the team Friday to Michigan for the game against the Wolverines on Saturday,

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