India's supreme court bans tourism in tiger parks

India's supreme court bans tourism in tiger parks
Telegraph.co.uk
India's top court banned tourism in tiger reserves across the country on Tuesday in a ruling that aims to protect the endangered big cats but may disrupt travel plans for droves of tourists. Harnessing social media in the fight to save the tigers. Just 1700 tigers ...

Telegraph.co.uk

India's Supreme Court bans tourism in wildlife parks in effort to save endangered ...
Washington Post
NEW DELHI — India's top court banned tourism in tiger reserves across the country Tuesday in a ruling that aims to protect the endangered big cats but may disrupt travel plans for droves of tourists who booked stays at the hundreds of hotels that have sprung ...

SF tourist 1 stop-shop on Powell St.
San Francisco Chronicle
Now they'll be able to take shelter in a 6000-square-foot tourist information center and 150-seat restaurant right on Powell Street, directly across from the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. Mayor Ed Lee will cut the ribbon Thursday to open the San Francisco Welcome...

San Francisco Chronicle

More Vacation Please; Half of Workers Would Sacrifice Employment Benefits for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
DENVER, Jul 24, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Half of all workers who receive paid vacation time in the nation's top 10 largest cities would be willing to sacrifice a workplace benefit in exchange for more paid time off. However, despite their ... This week, Inspirato will launch Inspirato for Business, a new membership offering designed for companies that recognize the importance of vacation and want to provide their employees or customers the exclusive travel privileges and benefits of an Inspirato membership. Through ...

Travel Detective Blog: Olympic Myths and How Travelers Can Benefit
Peter Greenberg.com Travel News
Travel news you can use from America's travel expert. Sign up for our FREE daily or weekly ... The Olympics Games are less than 10 days away, but according to the Travel Detective London stands to lose more than it will gain. Find out why in his latest blog.

India's Top Court Bans Tourism in Tiger Reserves
Voice of America (blog)
India's Supreme Court has banned tourism in tiger reserves throughout the country, in a bid to protect the endangered animal. The court Tuesday also announced penalties against six states for failure to comply with an earlier order to create buffer zones ...

'Breaking Bad' boosts tourism in Albuquerque
USA TODAY
The city offers a variety of movie-themed tie-ins, and logged a record number of tourists at its visitor center in the months following the film's March 23 opening, says tourismspokeswoman Marla Tambellini. One destination ambivalent about its newfound ...

USA TODAY

Central PA tourism official talks about NCAA sanctions
phillyBurbs.com
Giving the so-called death penalty to Penn State University's football program would have severely penalized the many businesses that rely on the annual influx of visitors during the football season, atourism official said Monday. Her comments came after the ...

Top US travel scams
Fox News
"These scams range from crooked meters to unscrupulous drivers," says Alex Puig, Regional Security Director for Travel Security Services, a U.S. security firm. To avoid a taxi scam, "it's good advice to settle on a price before heading off in a taxicab," according ...

Surprised? Tourism to Mexico continues to increase, despite Rick Perrys warnings
Houston Chronicle (blog)
... ever”) Mexico's tourist industry has shifted its sights away from the United States somewhat. Efforts to promote international travel to Mexico to widen its tourismbase have successfully increased travel from 141 nations such as Canada, Brazil, and China.

Houston Chronicle (blog)

HIV Travel Restrictions In 46 Countries Opposed By Top CEOs At 2012 ...
International Business Times
Speaking on the first day of the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., chief executives from over 20 leading multinational corporations called upon 46 countries to lift travel restrictions on HIV-positive individuals. The business leaders ...

International Business Times

Illinois sees boost in tourism during 2011
Sacramento Bee
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity said Monday the state saw an 8.4 percent bump in tourism last year. Visitors generated $31.8 billion for the state economy. The more than 93 million visitors break the previous record of 91 ...

Congress passes bill boosting pilots' rights
msnbc.com
WASHINGTON — Pilots' rights when dealing with Federal Aviation Administration disciplinary proceedings would receive a boost under a bill passed by Congress on Monday — a measure written by a senator who was ordered to take remedial flying lessons ...

Will Spain Burn While European Politicians Go On Vacation?
Forbes
Spain's borrowing costs have breached the 7% line, and are now hovering around 7.5%. What now for the euro if Spain implodes? Spain is meant to be 'too big to bail,' but that idea's nonsense. If political will for action exists, the Spaniards can be bailed.

No tourism in core areas of tiger reserves: Supreme Court
Calcutta Telegraph
No tourism in core areas of tiger reserves: Supreme Court. New Delhi, Jul 24 (PTI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that there shall be no tourism activity in any of the core zones of tiger reserves across the country. A bench of justices Swatanter ...

Tran-sporting
Boston.com
Athletes with hard-to-pack equipment need more than just a passport. By Shira Springer. Globe Staff / July 24, 2012. E-mail ... Olympians accustomed to international travel pack for worst-case scenarios. Archer Brady Ellison never boards a plane without his ...

Unlimited Vacation Time Gains Traction, Especially In Silicon Valley
Huffington Post
U.S. workers on average get 14 vacation days per year, compared to 28 days in Italy and 20 days in Australia, according to a survey by the travel website Expedia. U.S. workers on average also left two of their vacation days unused last year, in effect handing ...

Airlines' fuel surcharges far outpacing fuel prices
San Jose Mercury News
What's more, most airlines have not reduced fuel surcharges since 2009, despite drops in fuel prices over that time, according to the study by corporate travel management company Carson WagonlitTravel. Fuel surcharges can represent an increase of as much ... The poll of more than 2000 Americans taken online by travel website Travel-Ticker found that 83 percent of those withvacation plans could be swayed to change plans if presented with a better deal. Among other findings in the survey, 72 percent of those ...

Olde Towne Pet Resort and Northern Virginia Magazine Partner to Celebrate the ...
Sacramento Bee
This exciting and local pet-focused event — which is presently scheduled for Saturday, August 11, 2012 from 10 am - 2 pm and is expected to draw several hundred pet parents from all areas of Northern Virginia — is being hosted by Olde Towne Pet Resort ...

Video: Now You Can Travel Back & Forth Through Time on Google ...
By Jon Mitchell
Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the Landsat satellite program. It's the longest-running continuous program capturing satellite images of Earth. Google is working with the U.S. Geological Survey and Carnegie Mellon University to make ...
ReadWriteWeb

20 Summer Travel Essentials | The Zoe Report
By The Zoe Report
Get Out Of Town. 20 Summer Travel Essentials. At Team Zoe, we simply refuse to stay cooped up on our couch when the weather is so undeniably wonderful. Taking a cue from the sunshine, we recommend hitting the road—or the sky, or the ...
The Zoe Report

Travel Tech: Best Mobile Foodie Products | Travel News from - Fodor's
By news@fodors.com
Why We Like It: For those of us who like to travel, eat, and save money, this app is a godsend. It finds the best deals from a ton of discount dining sources and offers them to you on a (virtual) silver platter in real time! That means that, based on ...
Fodor's Travel News

The Complete Idiot's Guide To Bus Travel | Thought Catalog
By Laura Jayne Martin
Bus Travel. Please enjoy this advice, which differs from all the other idiotic advice out there in that instead of being for a complete idiot it is written by a complete idiot. I think that makes all the difference. Considering a vacation anywhere in the ...
Thought Catalog

simple as that: DIY Pocket Travel Journal Tutorial
By rebecca
Before leaving on my trip to Queensland, Australia last month I shared a sneak peek at the minitravel journal I'd put together to take with me. I'm just finishing up my little album by adding all the photos and journaling and wanted to share with ...
simple as that

The Absolute Highlight of the Global Business Travel Association ...
By Gary
The highlight of being at the Global Business Travel Association's 2012 convention today wasn't: Hearing JetBlue CEO Dave Barger talk about going fishing with American CEO Tom Horton, while declaring that he didn't think it was possible to ...
View from the Wing

The 10 best travel-savvy apps | Techi.com
By Amanda Ryan
No longer worry about finding directions, where to book your hotel, or even where the locations of restrooms are when creating your next travel plans. Mobile apps have made planning a vacation a less disorganized event and more of a ...
Techi.com

Travel | The Guardian
Travel news round-up: from the Dead Sea to Zimbabwe · Dordogne treehouse. Treehouses, free houses (if you'll feed the cat) and Don Quixote tilting at Devon ...
www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2012/jul/23/travel

Thailand: Land of smiles or tourist trap? - Yahoo! News
"People who enjoy eco-tourism tend to spend a lot of money and we are definitely targeting that type of tourist," said Chattan Khunjara Na Ayudhya, a public ...
news.yahoo.com/thailand-land-smiles-tourist-trap-003037701....

'Breaking Bad' boosts tourism in Albuquerque ... - Travel - USA Today
USA TODAY Travel ... Why we no longer feel rested after taking a vacation ... Of course, Albuquerque isn't the only destination to make tourist lemonade out of ...
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These 10 places should be on every traveller's ... - Travel - MSN.com
Mark Sunderland/The Travel Library/Rex Features; Andy Sotiriou/Mood ... left injured as wildfires sweep through popular tourist spots on the coast of Spain. ... for packing efficiently and smartly forvacation and challenges them to a pack-off.
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