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• 'Travel firm burns KSU volleyball (The Topeka Capital-Journal)
Kansas State is considering legal action after its volleyball program lost more than $150,000 to a now-defunct travel agency, according to a report today on ESPN's "Outside the Lines." K-State paid a deposit of $151,533 to Transports Athletics for a team trip to China that was to take place in spring 2008. read more
• 'TUI Travel sees holiday bookings pick up (Daily Telegraph)
TUI travel the package holiday group said summer bookings had picked up in the last four weeks as consumers benefited from lower interest rates and falls in food and energy prices.
• 'Ford CEO Pay Falls, But Private Travel Stays (Fox News)
Ford CEO Pay Falls, But Private Travel Stays
• 'Air-Travel Demand Tumbles to ?Alarming Levels?: Chart of Day (Bloomberg)
March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Demand for air travel has fallen to ?alarming levels,? threatening the rebound in U.S. airline stocks from record lows, according to Hunter Keay , a Stifel Nicolaus & Co. analyst.
• 'Yahoo! Closes Travel Bargains Site FareChase (TheStreet.com)
The Internet company on Wednesday is closing its FareChase service that helped users find travel bargains, a report says, as the company tightens its focus and cuts costs.
• 'Bartz Wields The Knife: Yahoo To Close FareChase Travel Site (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)
Yahoo's new CEO Carol Bartz has said that the company needs to streamline its business and "everything's open for examination." That paring back is starting to pick up steam. The company has decided to close down its Yahoo FareChase travel search engine.
• 'VEGA: THEY'RE PAID TO TRAVEL (The Electric New Paper)
RAMON Vega, who was part of a treble-winning side at Celtic under Martin O'Neill, doesn't think that the players will be too concerned at having to travel so soon after the end of the season.
• 'What Mexican drug war? Spring-break students defy travel warnings. (The Christian Science Monitor)
Universities and the US government warned American students about the risks of travel in Mexico. But Cancún numbers are off only slightly.
• 'TUI Travel reports £66.6 million loss (AFP via Yahoo! News)
TUI Travel suffered a first-quarter net loss of 66.6 million pounds as it continued to endure costs linked to its 2007 creation, the tourism group said Wednesday.
• 'Premier League hopefuls Wolverhampton to travel down under (tribalfootball.com)
Wolverhampton Wanderers will travel to Australia to play a friendly against Perth Glory in England?s off-season. read more

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