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• 'Casto Travel president sees S.F. bucking trend of higher airfares next year (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)
San Francisco will not see the higher fares the rest of the nation experiences next year due to more low-cost carriers serving the city's airport, said Marc Casto, president and chief operating officer at Casto travel.
• 'U.S. keeps records of travel habits (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By ELLEN NAKASHIMA The government's collection of records on the travel habits of millions of Americans is part of the Homeland Security Department's effort to assess the security threat posed by all travelers entering the country. The personal travel records are meant to be stored as long as 15 years. The electronic records retain data on the people with whom Americans travel or plan to stay, ...
• 'Italian Travel Reality TV Show Cast To Visit Brunei (BruDirect.com)
Bandar Seri Begawan - Six Italian beauties are enroute to Brunei and arriving next week for a popular Italian reality TV series, Donnaventura. Chosen from over 40,000 applicants, the young and charismatic women will be sharing their worldwide travel experiences with their viewers.
• 'ITH to promote travel to Chandigarh (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
Chandigarh, Sep 22 (IANS) International Travel House (ITH), an associate company of ITC Ltd, will focus on travel destinations in Chandigarh and neighbouring areas in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana.
• 'U.S. holding wide stockpile of personal travel data (San Diego Union-Tribune)
WASHINGTON – The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the people with whom they travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their journeys, and even the books that travelers have carried, according to documents obtained by a group of civil liberties advocates ...
• 'Withdrawal of travel advisories, a boon to tourism (Sunday Observer)
The travel advisories imposed by England, France, Germany and the Netherlands on Sri Lanka has been withdrawn.
• 'US issues travel warning to its citizens on visiting Pakistan (ANI via Yahoo! India News)
Lahore, Sep 22 (ANI): The US State Department has issued travel warning to its citizens about security concerns in Pakistan. A statement has warned the citizens to avoid non-essential travel to Pakistan. The presence of the Taliban and al Qaeda in Pakistan poses "a potential danger to American citizens," the advisory claimed. It notes that terrorists have demonstrated their ...
• 'U.S. collecting detailed travel data (San Jose Mercury News)
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their journeys, and even the books
• 'TRAVEL: Cuba on the sly (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
? Barack Obama would lift restrictions on visits by Cuban Americans to the hemisphere's only communist country if elected president. 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.
• 'Report: College president charged $25,000 in travel expenses (FOX 45 Dayton)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Columbus Dispatch says the president of Hocking College charged more than $25,000 in travel expenses to a credit card.

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