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• 'Ipswich Travel Basketball Tryouts (Ipswich Chronicle)
For youths in Ipswich interested in playing travel basketball this winter.
• 'Fay dampens Southeast travel plans (News 14 Carolina)
CHARLOTTE ? Tropical Storm Fay's meandering path over Florida is quickly derailing travel plans as it continues to dump rain over the Southeast. For most of the week, flights in and out of Florida have either been delayed or canceled.
• 'Higher airfares, fewer flights expected to slow Labor Day weekend travel (BizJournals)
The Air Transport Association of America is projecting that Labor Day travel will drop by 5.7 percent this year. The group estimates that 16 million paying passengers will fly globally on U.S. airlines between Aug. 27 and Sept. 3.
• 'Fire Crews Called To Griffith Park Travel Town (NBC 4 Los Angeles)
Crews respond to a fire call Wednesday at Griffith Park's Travel Town.
• 'Travel through Tucson airport still up for the year (FOX 11 Tucson)
In spite of a downturn in air travel during the months of June and July, passenger traffic at Tucson International Airport (TIA) for the first seven months of 2008 is up 1.23% compared with last year.
• 'Premium travel sagging (Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news)
Business and first-class air travel in June shrank 0.4% year-on-year, the worst result recorded by the global aviation industry since May last year, due to the economic slowdown and impacts of high oil prices.
• 'Travel Tips: Readers' air, cruise and hotel secrets (USA Today)
Each week USA TODAY taps our traveling audience for the their best advice on air travel, cruising and hotels. Leave a tip or take a tip it could be run in an upcoming issue of USA TODAY.
• 'Tourism council sees big benefits in health travel (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
A tourism leader says the Gold Coast would reap some of the biggest benefits if Australia developed a health travel industry.
• 'So You Want to Be a Travel Photographer? Rick Sammon Shows You How! (O'Reilly Media)
Veteran travel photographer Rick Sammon shares his tips for shooting memorable images when on the road. "One of the cool things about digital SLR cameras (and top of the line cameras) is that you can control the shutter speed to either stop or blur action," writes Sammon, author of Face to Face. "A shutter speed of 1/500th of a second is usually fast enough to freeze most fast-moving animal ...
• 'Big spike in travel fares expected for holidays (KING5 Seattle)
According to travel search engine Farecast, holiday fare hikes are inevitable due to a "perfect storm" of higher fuel costs, fewer flights and high consumer demand.

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