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Vacation Homes Beckon
Wall Street Journal
After being battered during the housing bust, the vacation-home market is showing signs of life. Reports of bidding wars are trickling out of some of the locales that bore the brunt of the housing bust, and brokers in other markets, while not sounding ...

British tourist mauled by 'tame' cheetahs
New York Post
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa -- Two excited, supposedly tame cheetahs mauled a Scottish tourist in a petting area at a South Africa game park, forcing her to play dead and turning her holiday into a "nightmare." The Port Elizabeth Herald reported the ...

New York Post

Hurley Travel Experts Wins Contract with Tyler Technologies
MarketWatch (press release)
Hurley Travel Experts is a Travel Management Company specializing in business travel, corporate incentive and group travel, and luxury vacation travel. It was founded by Pamela Hurley-Moser in 1993. Creating a policy that makes cultural sense and ...

Travel Picks: Top 10 "ugly" buildings to visit
Reuters
While the staff and travelers at online travel advisers Trippy.com (www.trippy.com) may be undecided on that issue, they can certainly tell you which buildings they'd put on the list for consideration. Here are their choices for the World's Top 10 ...

Vacation Choices Creates Scam Facts Site
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
In an effort to help the travel community learn the truth about Vacation Choices and discern between trustworthy travel clubs and those that are out to scam consumers , the ConciergeTravel Club has set up a new site to separate fact from fiction.

Travel Postcard: 48 Hours in Bruges
Reuters
This changed when Georges Rodenbach published his book "Bruges-la-Morte" in 1892, turning the city into a tourist destination. Trains from Brussels run twice an hour and take about 70 minutes. Bruges is also well connected to the road network with the ...

Radisson Blu Resort Sharjah Announces New Dining Experiences
MarketWatch (press release)
BRUSSELS, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Radisson Blu Resort Sharjah has announced new dining experiences for its guests, including its new range of restaurants and cafes- each with its own unique setting and menu. As one of the leading hotels ...

US Revamps Student Work Visa Program After Abuses
ABC News
The agency issued new rules for the J-1 Summer Work and Travel Program, which brings more than 100000 foreign college students to the United States each year. The changes are the latest in a series of steps the State Department has taken to fix the ...

Travel Mobility Scooters Designed by Zip'r Mobility Solutions Corp. Now ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Zip'r Mobility is the premier manufacturer of travel mobility products. As a classification of power and non-power mobility products, 'travel mobility' refers to products that can be easily transported and assembled. At Zip'r Mobility, they take pride ...

US expects China to allow dissident Chen Guangcheng to travel abroad
The Guardian
The US expects the Chinese government to quickly clear the way for Chen Guangcheng to travel abroad to study, it said on Friday, raising hopes of a brighter future for the blind activist after days of fraught negotiation.

The Guardian

Potala Travel Launches New Website to Promote Responsible Tibet Tourism
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Potala Travel, a Tibetan-run tour organization, launched a new website to help potential clients arrange Tibet tours. The site highlights the organization's focus on responsible, sustainabletourism and promoting local Tibetan businesses.

Porsche Travel Club Canada Invites You to Leave Your Everyday Life Behind-At ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Starting late this June, a fleet of six new Porsche Boxsters will be traveling on British Columbia's Vancouver Island for the inaugural Porsche Travel Club in Canada. Over three nights and two spectacular driving days, drivers and passengers will get ...

A Tourist in My Son's New Home
New York Times
I thought I had made my peace with having my sons move out, until I suddenly realized they were moving so far away that I would have to travel to see them. And I don't mean across town. I would have to pack a suitcase, get on a plane, the whole nine ...

Evacuation order lifted for West Texas resort after wildfire containment lines ...
Washington Post
Texas Forest Service spokeswoman April Saginor says the evacuation order for the Davis Mountain Resort was lifted Thursday night. About 150 residents live in the 400-cabin development full time. The blaze known as the Livermore Ranch fire is about 50 ...

Cantor Gaming and Palms Casino Resort Announce Grand Opening of New Race and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LAS VEGAS, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Cantor Gaming® and Palms CasinoResort announced today the grand opening of the newly refurbished race and sports book at Palms Casino Resort, one of the few in Las Vegas to include a poker room.

Bus Travel In Nation's Capital Inspires Song
Voice of America
May 02, 2012 Bus Travel In Nation's Capital Inspires Song Local vendors help with cross promotion Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC Songwriters find inspiration in different - and sometimes unusual - places. René Moffatt, a Washington DC singer and ...

Travel warning downgraded for parts of Indonesia
ABC Online
The Australian travel warning for parts of Indonesia is being downgraded to a Category 2 level for the first time since the Bali bombings. DFAT's warning will remove the advice to "reconsider the need to travel" and will now emphasise the need to ...

NH Resort Becomes Official Ski Area of Boston Red Sox
First Tracks
Online Media Boston, MA -Two venerable New England institutions – the Boston Red Sox and New Hampshire's Waterville Valley Resort – are teaming up under a new three-year deal making them corporate partners through 2014. A mountain resort and a ball ...

Australia Downgrades Indonesia Travel Advice
Wall Street Journal
CANBERRA (Dow Jones)--Australia has downgraded its overall travel advice for Indonesia but held unchanged a warning that Australians should reconsider their need to travel to Central Sulawesi, Maluku, Papua and West Papua provinces due to recent ...

English couple to travel to Effingham for services
Chicago Tribune
EFFINGHAM — They may be halfway around the world, but John and Catherine Marshall-East feel like they know the man they helped return home to Effingham. After discovering items like an instrumental panel, gun site and foot pedals 18 feet underground, ...

Chicago tourism climbs in 2011 for first time in 4 years
Chicago Tribune
Chicago's hospitality industry saw a long-awaited rebound in a portion of its business last year as the number of domestic visitors rose 11.2 percent, to 42.4 million, the city's newly merged tourism agency announced Thursday.

Chicago Tribune

Bus tour brings to life Quahog, RI, the fictional hometown of Peter Griffin ...
Washington Post
The show will meld with reality this weekend when a local tourism council sponsors an all-day bus tour highlighting the Rhode Island institutions featured — for better or worse — on the Fox network's hit series. Fans will get to visit the bar in ...

Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, Listed in the Top 10 Destin Lodging ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort has been listed #1 on the Top 10 Resort Destinations for Destin Lodging by Resortsandlodges.com. ResortsandLodges.com is the most comprehensive online resource for resort and lodge vacations worldwide, serving more than ...

How to avoid looking like a tourist in Seattle | Seattle's Big Blog ...
By Amy Rolph
'Tis the season for tourists. Pike Place Market is that way — yes, that's where the original Starbucks is located. Just look for the folk singers making bank outside. Just in time for the droves of people, we asked seattlepi.com readers to help us ...
Seattle's Big Blog

Top Travel Destinations, How Do We Count Thee? | Gadling.com
By Chris Owen
Travel related companies tally internal data to make their lists. Government agencies publish the most frequented destinations based on incoming flights, hotel reservations and other criteria. Non-profit organizations have an unbiased tone to ...
Gadling

God, I Love Paris: A petite NYC travel tip
By Amy Thomas
A petite NYC travel tip. The Garment District is where it's at. Seriously. That grubby corridor in the middle of nowhere? It's going to be the next Noho, the next NoLiTa, the next MePa. Two years ago, the groovy Ace Hotel opened up, bringing ...
God, I Love Paris

Students film 'must-see' Indiana tourism spots
The six videos were filmed by Ball State University students in a partnership with the Indiana Office of Tourism Development. Agency Director Amy Vaughan says the students' videos provide "a fresh view of some of Indiana's vacation ...
Indiana | WISH TV

TFWA readies China travel retail conference
The trade organisation confirmed earlier this week that it will partner with the Asia Pacific TravelRetail Association (APTRA) to launch a three-day event entitled 'China's Century - The Fast Pace of Change in China Duty Free & Travel Retail'. The conference will be held at the Beijing ... said TFWA president Erik Juul-Mortensen. The trade body cited the World Tourism Organisation as forecasting that that the total number of outbound tourists from China will reach 100m a year by 2020.
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Bahamas Press » PLP UNCOVERS SCANDAL IN TOURISM
By media
In August 2010, the Minister of Tourism, Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, persuaded the Ministry to give a marketing contract to an American company called Tourism Marketing Alliance Inc. (“TMA”). The contract called for the Ministry to pay $1.65 ...
Bahamas Press

Disney's Art Of Animation Resort Puts Guests in the Middle of the ...
By Admin
To kick off the summer vacation season, Walt Disney World Resort will open on May 31 its newest resort hotel with Disney's Art of Animation Resort, a value property consisting primarily of family suites that immerse guests into the magical ...
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Mexico's Mayan Palace Golf Resort offers stay-and-play package ...
By dmckibben
Golf News for Friday, May 4, 2012 | Travel ... The Mayan Palace is a five-star resort with world-class amenities and a spectacular 7200 yard, par-72 Jack Nicklaus designed course, tucked a few yards from one of the most pristine beaches in the world. The nearest ocean side golf course to Arizona is only a 3.5 hour drive from Phoenix and Tucson. A product of the unbeatable creativity of Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus II, the links-style Peninsula de Cortez has seven holes playing ...
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Shetland - Scotland | VisitScotland
Scotland's National Tourism Organisation. connect with us. Facebook · Twitter ... Travel To & Around Scotland, Weather · Overview of Travel · To Scotland ...
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China, US near deal on travel abroad for dissident Chen - CHINA ...
Chinese authorities said Friday that blind dissident Chen Guangcheng could apply for a visa to study abroad, a move that suggests Beijing and Washington may ...
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20 Rejected Summer Vacation Posters | SMOSH
I can see why these funny summer vacation posters were rejected!
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Radisson Blu Resort Sharjah Announces New Dining Experiences ...
Radisson Blu Resort Sharjah has announced new dining experiences for its guests, ... As one of the leading hotels in Sharjah, the resort has upgraded its dining ...
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Travel Sweepstakes!
We'll be posting our travel sweepstakes on this pinboard, as well as, our ... Bert is getting excited to pick the big winner for our Atlantis Resort sweepstakes!
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