Sri Lanka revises up tourism targets

Sri Lanka revises up tourism targets
Reuters
| COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka on Thursday revised up its targets for tourist arrivals and leisure industry revenue after the sector outperformed in the first quarter with a more than 20 percent rise in arrivals. The Indian Ocean island nation ...

Affordable Vacation Homes in the Mountains, 90 Miles from NYC At One Of The ...
Albany Times Union
Skyway Camping, a Best Parks in America resort, provides affordable vacation homes for NY metropolitan area families, empty nesters, and retirees just 90 miles from NYC. Impossible, you say? At Skyway, an RV resort turned haven for affordable vacation ...

Morocco hopeful tourism to resist EU crisis
Reuters
By Souhail Karam | RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco expects its 2012 tourism receipts to at least match last year's as it relies on a growing focus on eastern European and Middle Eastern markets to mitigate any decline in tourist arrivals from the euro zone, ...

Emirates Tours Announces Competition to Win Designer Travel Bags
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Emirates Tours, a leading travel operator specialising in luxury holidays, has announced a new competition to win a travel bag made by designer luggage brand, Aspinal of London.

Euro-Zone Crisis Dents Premium Air Travel In Europe-IATA
Wall Street Journal
By Alex Delmar-Morgan Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES DUBAI (Dow Jones)--Global first and business-class air travel rose 6.3% on the year in February, supported by rising business confidence and increased global trade, figures from the aviation trade body ...

Tunisia sees tourists return after revolt
Reuters
By Lin Noueihed and Tarek Amara | DJERBA, Tunisia (Reuters) - Tunisia hopes visitors from Russia, Asia and the United States and an "Open Skies" treaty with Europe will help tourismrecover from the effect of last year's revolt that scared away ...

Five travel apps that could save your life
USA TODAY
By Bob Riha, Jr., USA TODAY If you travel with your phone, check out these apps that could save you in a bind. By Bob Riha, Jr., USA TODAY If you travel with your phone, check out these apps that could save you in a bind. Everyone should keep an ICE ...

USA TODAY

Hotwire Reveals April 2012 Travel Savings Indicator
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Hotwire.com®, a leading discount travel site, today released the April 2012 Hotwire® Travel Savings Indicator, which features the top five cities in North America where hotel, air and car rental ...

Travel & Leisure names York one of 'America's Greatest Main Streets'
Yorkdispatch.com
Travel & Leisure recently named Downtown York one of America's Greatest Main Streets, citing Central Market as one of the area's highlights. (Randy Flaum photo) Downtown York has grabbed the attention of a popular travel magazine, which recently ...

Smart Travel: Majority of Smartphone Owners Now Access Travel Information on ...
Sacramento Bee
By comScore, Inc. RESTON, Va., April 18, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a US study on mobile travelactivities based on data from the new comScore Travel Advisor report.

SJM and Success Universe Get $308 Million for Macau Resort
Bloomberg
SJM Holdings Ltd. (880) and Success Universe Group Ltd. (487) are guaranteeing the equivalent of about $308 million in five-year syndicated loans to fund construction of the Ponte 16 resort in gambling mecca Macau. The borrowing comprises a HK$1.9 ...

ACE Adventure Resort Goes For Zipline World Record
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Most commonly utilized by superheroes and secret agents looking for a quick jaunt between buildings, the zipline has become a popular tourist attraction for outdoor adventurers. When West Virginia adventure vacation specialists at ACE Adventure Resort ...

Australian lawyer for WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, '@suigenerisjen,' on travel ...
GlobalPost
Australian lawyer working for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said she was questioned at Heathrow and then told she was on a travel watch list, requiring special approval to return to Australia. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addresses the media ...

Rand McNally's 2013 Road Atlas Combines Travel Planning and Savings
MarketWatch (press release)
Mobile tags that provide instant access to travel videos, state-by-state overviews with suggested road trips, and the new Best of the Road® user review smartphone application. The app facilitates immediate participation in this summer's Best of the ...

Assange lawyer says she is on watch list
Herald Sun
Aussie WikiLeaks lawyer placed on travel watch list Tweeted: "requiring approval from Australia House @dfat to travel" DFAT "not aware" of any Australian government restrictions AN Australian lawyer working for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claims ...

Tourism sector eyes travellers from emerging nation
AFP
"Our industry will grow despite all the crises of the last years," Michael Frenzel, head of German tourism giant TUI, said at the World Travel and Tourism Council summit in Tokyo, which wraps up Thursday. The summit began in the city of Sendai, ...

AFP

Tourist couple get $57756 after being struck by Palace Transit bus
Daily Republic
The jury was out for less than two hours, and that included selecting a foreperson and having lunch. Two tourists injured when they were knocked down by a city bus in 2009 were awarded $57756 by a Davison County jury Wednesday at the courthouse in ...

VP Boakai Welcomes Biggest Tourist Group Visit Here
AllAfrica.com
In the past, the National Geographic cruise liner, led by Lindblad Expeditions who are pioneers in the field of expedition travel, has travelled the Indian Ocean and the East Coast of Africa on its off- season but increasing threats of piracy have led ...

A little baked salvation in Amsterdam
Boston.com (blog)
Never a good start to a family vacation. My husband, Todd, would pay a million dollars not to compete with me on “The Amazing Race,” and the combination of cyclists, canals, and trams added to our stress. In the end, I persuaded a taxi driver to escort ...

Formerly imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize to finally travel outside Myanmar
Catholic Online
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) Nobel Peace Prize winner and laureate, as well as pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi is scheduled to travel outside of her native land of Myanmar for the first time in 24 years. The party of the newly elected ...

Vacation Choices Launches New Support, Complaint and Scam Alert Site
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Top Travel Club Vacation Choices launches news site dedicated to providing comprehensive support solutions for prospective and current members where they can get answers to customer related questions and travel related complaints, as well as offer ...

International travel in and out of Canada rises in February
Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — Travel out of and into Canada was on the rise in February, largely because of people making quick trips across the Canada-United States border, Statistics Canada said Thursday. The federal agency said Canadian residents took a seasonally ...

Amadeus and Expedia sign multi-year agreement in North America
MarketWatch (press release)
MADRID, Apr 19, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amadeus, a leading travel technology provider and transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry, and Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXPE) , the world's largest online travel company, today announced ...

WH Smith to continue travel hub strategy
Financial Times
By Jennifer Thompson WH Smith is sticking to its tried-and-tested strategy of targeting lucrative travel concessions both in the UK and abroad as the stationery, newsagent and bookselling chain battles falling high street sales.

Financial Times

Roxon to face grilling on Assange lawyer
Ninemsn
Attorney General Nicola Roxon is set to face an interrogation from a room full of lawyers over reports an Australian lawyer working for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is on a travel watch list. London-based human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson said ...

Tourism spending in Whatcom County jumps 16.9 percent in 2011
Bellingham Herald
The authors of the study, Dean Runyan Associates, estimate Whatcom County tourism employment totaled 5870, up 230 from the previous year. A major factor in the increase was the rise in Canadian shopping, said Loni Rahm, president and CEO of Bellingham ...

Bellingham Herald

Why I Love Budget Travel
Fox Business
Last year I was considering taking a trip with friends - an all-inclusive spa vacation at a fancyresort. Ultimately I declined because all of the selling points - meals included, Condé Nast Traveler seal of approval, fancy spa treatments - were ...

Living like the London locals is win-win for Olympic tourists
Boston Herald
By Bill Burke / The Travel Guy There are only 99 days until the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and hotels are booking up fast. Wouldn't it be nice to have a British cousin whose flat was free for two weeks? Anyone looking to find a place to stay during ...

From The Airfarewatchdog Mailbag: Your Air Travel Questions Answered
Huffington Post
Have a question about air travel or airfares? We answer as many as we can, either by email to questions@airfarewatchdog.com or in our Q&A column. Why is the general public (and readers of your column and website) complaining about the high cost of ...

Sex Robots Will Revolutionize Sex Tourism, Report Says (NSFW)
By The Huffington Post News Team
They don't spread disease and they can't be sold into sex slavery. Those are just two of the advantages of robot prostitutes, which will be edging out their human competition in the sextourism market by the year 2050, according to an article ...
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5 Travel Tips For A Summer Olympics Trip | Bankrate.com
Want to save on a Summer Olympics vacation? Follow these ... Expect to pay about $1500 per person from the West Coast and $1300 from the East Coast for airfare to London, says Laurie Stalick, owner of Arvida Travel in Granada Hills, Calif.
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Georama reimagines travel with interactive maps | VentureBeat
By Dean Takahashi
Lots of travel sites are vying for your attention. Georama hopes to grab you by simplifying the process of planning, booking, and sharing your travel plans. The site uses a map of the world as its user interface, and users click on pushpin icons to ...
VentureBeat

West Seattle Blog… » Local travel writers' global charity gets boost ...
By WSB
Did you notice the lights and cameras set up at Cupcake Royale in The Junction on Monday? That was a crew from Bellevue-based Expedia, interviewing local travel writers who have applied their storytelling and outreach skills to fundraising ...
West Seattle Blog...

Viator: 5 Common Myths About Cruise Travel
By Viator
... you could easily spend all your time on board the ship, enjoying all the comforts of home (and way more), the only thing stopping you from having incredible, unforgettable experiences in port are your own misconceptions about cruise travel.
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed

Area Agencies Improving Travel For The Blind « CBS Dallas / Fort ...
By mgoodman
Notice some changes along Capitol Avenue in Dallas? Lighthouse For The Blind and Dallas Area Rapid Transit certainly hope so.
CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

Burma's tourism boom hits budget travellers | Democratic Voice of ...
By NAY THWIN
... experts have warned. The sudden increase in visitors is becoming a major problem for the tourism industry, which is not big enough to accommodate them, a Rangoon-based official from the Union of Myanmar Travel Association told DVB. ... “ In popular tourist areas, inflation, the lack of tourism infrastructure and large-scale development projects rarely benefits all, but rather only enriches a few,” explained tourism expert Andrea Valentin in a recent DVB op-ed. A recent Reuters report ...
Democratic Voice of Burma

Researchers Claim Sex Robots Will Be Future Of Sex Tourism ...
By chelfandcbs
Two Australian researchers claim that sex robots are the future of prostitution and sex tourism. ...Their work together revolved around the concept of futuristic sex tourism. The hypothesis? Sex robots would become the leading ladies of ...
CBS Las Vegas

The Homestead resort plans $25M in improvements | WSLS 10
HOT SPRINGS, Va. (AP) The Homestead resort is planning $25 million in improvements that include a new water park. The first phase of Alleghany Springs is expected to open by Memorial Day. It features a Jacuzzi, pool and children's area.
WSLS 10 - News

Kayak Travel App Now Available for BlackBerry PlayBook | N4BB ...
By Lucas Atkins
Kayak Travel App Now Available for BlackBerry PlayBook. kayak-playbook. You may remember the day when Kayak announced that no further development will occur for BlackBerry. They must have meant BBOS, since the Kayak app is now ...
N4BB

*An English Travel Writer*: Making Money at Travel Writing, And ...
By Jenny Woolf
The panel were travel writers who are managing to make a decent income with the help of the web, plus a nice lady called Debbie Marshall, who had many years in the travel trade before deciding to set up her own travel website dedicated to ...
*An English Travel Writer*

Travel Magazine Ranks MSP Airport Best In U.S. « CBS Minnesota
By Jeff Wald
Frequent flyers are choosing MSP as the best airport in the US. That's according to a new ranking from Travel and Leisure Magazine.
CBS Minnesota

World News - Spanish king 'very sorry' for elephant-hunting vacation
Spanish king 'very sorry' for elephant-hunting vacation. /. Spain's King Juan Carlos leaves his room at a hospital after being discharged in Madrid, April 18.
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