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Best Shoes for Travel? Ask a Flight Attendant - NYTimes.com
The wrong pair of shoes can cramp your feet, your style and, ultimately, your vacation. Here are some shoes flight attendants choose for comfort (and even ...
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Change of travel advice for Egypt
Due to the significant increase in criminal activity in the North Sinai area, the Foreign Office now advises against all travel to the Governorate of North Sinai.
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Mali
The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens against all travel to Mali at this time because of fluid political conditions, the loss of government control of Mali's ...
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New Orlean's French Quarter attracts tourism despite hurricane ...
Watch the video New Orlean's French Quarter attracts tourism despite hurricane on Yahoo! News . Even as Hurricane Isaac menaced New Orleans on ...
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Labor Day travel to see modest increase
San Francisco Chronicle
Passengers disembark an Amtrak train at the Jack London Square station, in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday August 29, 2012. Californians continue to be increasing theirtravel at least over the holidays. For Labor Day, AAA is expecting travel by car ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Dirty Dozen Travel Myths
Huffington Post (blog)
Travel Myth #2 - You never feel the bobbing and weaving on cruise ships. Right... and I have this 20% annual rate of return investment vehicle for you too! Indeed, it has to be said, that for the most part, cruise ships are incredibly stable. Most have ...

Fiction As Travel Inspiration In The Sabbatical
Huffington Post
While preparing for a journey somewhere new, I often read fiction set in the place in question. India? Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance. Morocco? Break out the Paul Bowles. Road trip across America? Kerouac's On the Road, of course. What better way to ...

China Pushes Tibet Tourism in Theme Park Project
Voice of America
But Beijing's official news agency, Xinhua, quoted the deputy mayor of Lhasa, Ma Xingming, as saying the project “is designed to improve Tibet's tourism credentials and be a landmark of the cultural industry.” Xinhua said the park, scheduled for ...

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Tourism Sector to Bear Brunt of Mombasa Unrest
AllAfrica.com
Tourist arrivals declined by 0.5 percent for the first quarter of this year, following a tourist's abduction in Lamu towards the end of last year and subsequent travel advisories issued by some of Kenya's key source markets such as the UK and France ...

IATA: Growth in global air travel slows in July
MarketWatch
-Middle Eastern airlines, many of them government-funded, posted the strongest growth in international air travel, rising 11.2% in July, although this was surpassed by a 12.4% rise in capacity. -Global freight volumes were down 3.2% in July compared ...

Dreams Of Travel To The Moon, And Beyond
NPR (blog)
Looking at some of the first fictional narratives of travel to the moon, one is doubly struck by how freely the imagination runs in the absence of actual data, and by how remarkably difficult it is to transform imagination into reality. To dream of ...

One Sign Fears About Google Moving Into Travel Were Overblown ...
By Tricia Duryee
While Google is the go-to mapping service on mobile phones, the search giant did not score as high when it came to providing other travel services, such as flights and reviews.
AllThingsD

The Pros And Cons Of Different Travel Partners | The Frisky
By Winona Dimeo-Ediger
I believe that traveling is always a good experience (even a terrible vacation will give you stories to tell for years to come), but who you choose to.
The Frisky

2.35M SoCal Residents Expected To Travel Over Labor Day ...
By Lauren
About 2.35 million Southland residents are expected to travel during the Labor Day weekend beginning Thursday and ending Monday.
CBS Los Angeles

AAA: Over 1.2M Michiganders To Travel For Labor Day Weekend ...
By sstoddart
Most state travelers – an estimated 92 percent – will go by vehicle to enjoy "summer's last hurrah," with resort areas, campgrounds, and lakes among the popular destinations.
CBS Detroit

For Travel, Users Prefer Apps to Mobile Web
By Frank Reed
For travelers the smartphone becomes even more important than it usually is. On the go folks aren't as prone to ...
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TODAY Show Video: Labor Day Travel Deals - Carry On | Travel + ...
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy. Still looking to get away this weekend? You don't have to spend a fortune to ...
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Gas Up, Airfare Down for Labor Day Travel

Gas Up, Airfare Down for Labor Day Travel
ABC News
The increase in automobile travel comes despite rising gas prices, up 16 cents per gallon as of Tuesday from a year ago. Decreased airfare may play a part in the rising number of air travelers this holiday weekend, expected to rise 3.7 percent. AAA ...

ABC News

Travel tips: Hotel safety tips for any season
Boston.com (blog)
The official last weekend for summer getaways is here, and whether your plans are set or you're playing things by ear, there's a lot of travel to be had this Labor Day weekend. According to AAA, 33 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more this ...

Presidential Candidates Largely Ignore Travel Industry Despite Job And ...
Huffington Post
The U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration announced earlier this month that 2012 could be a record year for travel and tourism, with international visitors to the U.S. having spent $82.2 billion on travel so far this year, a ...

Hurricane Isaac slams New Orleans on anniversary of Katrina
Examiner.com
It was just seven years ago that New Orleans, a popular travel destination, was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of residents fled the Big Easy, many of them making fresh starts in other parts of the Southeast, including Huntsville. On ...

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Nielsen: Native Travel Apps Trump Mobile Web 95% Of The Time, Google Maps ...
TechCrunch
Native app usage has been edging just ahead of mobile web usage among U.S. smartphone owners in the last few months, but when it comes to the category of travel, mobile web use all but disappears off the map. According to figures out today from Nielsen ...

TechCrunch

Ayatollah Tourism: A Guided Tour of Iran's Sites of Oppression and Abuse
The Atlantic
On Friday, Iran's top tourism official, H.M. Ajabi, told local press (IRNA) that the NAM summit offers a great opportunity for "boosting Iran's tourism industry" and the Tehran Times reports that Ban has been invited to attend a meeting of the Human ...

The Atlantic

Travel companies must face American Airlines antitrust suit: judge
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge has denied a request by Orbitz Worldwide Inc (OWW.N), Sabre Holdings Corp TSG.UL and Travelport Ltd TRVPT.UL to dismiss a lawsuit filed by American Airlines Inc that accuses the companies of antitrust ...

China, wary of Arab Spring, hosts Egypt's Morsi
Boston.com
Revenues from tourism — one of Egypt's biggest money makers and job sources — fell 30 percent to $9 billion in 2011, and foreign investment has largely dried up. That has forced the country to seek billions of dollars in assistance from the ...

Convention travel has been a nightmare
Asbury Park Press
TAMPA — As conventions go, this one has been a logistics nightmare. This is not a good place for a huge gathering, certainly not for people who don't plan well. The New Jersey Republicans are staying in a hotel that brings to mind the place Tony ...

Consumer advocates declare war on hidden hotel fees
Chicago Tribune
"Stop hotels from hiding part of their true prices from consumers and business travelers." That's the message Kevin Mitchell of the Business Travel Coalition and I sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Aug. 27, 2012. Our target, of course, is ...

Travel Is Getting More Fun Now That We Don't Have To Deal With Humans
By Jill Krasny
All this automation might be the beginning of a whole new travel era, one that's just what the passengers ordered. Last spring, 75% of worldwide fliers told SITA, the Geneva-based airline IT provider, that self-service is the way to go.
Business Insider

Nielsen Study Shows June's Top Travel Apps, Mobile Sites
By Kate Freeman
Some findings by the latest Nielsen study shows what travel apps and sites for mobile devices were most popular this past June.
Mashable » Mobile

GateGuru Adds Capital to Make Air Travel Less of a Headache ...
By Erin Griffith
The app, originally developed to smooth out the annoying parts of the airport experience, is widening its focus to encompass the entire day of travel. The goal is to make traveling less of a headache and more “magical,” co-founder and CEO ...
PandoDaily

Libya
The Department of State warns U.S. citizens against all but essential travel to Libya. The incidence of violent crime, especially carjacking and robbery, has ...
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Harbor Schooner Sets Sail On Summer's Final Stretch - NY1.com
A final salute to summer can be had on New York Harbor onboard a boat with true American roots.
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The Daily Herald -Students short-listed for Tourism Youth Congress
MARIGOT--The St. Martin Tourism Office presented three Lycée students at a press conference Tuesday, one of whom will be chosen to represent St. Martin at ...
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Nielsen Study Shows June's Top Travel Apps, Mobile Sites - Yahoo ...
From Yahoo! News: Some findings by the latest Nielsen study show what travel apps and sites for mobile devices were most popular this past June. It appears ...
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The business of travel: An interactive map - FORTUNE on CNNMoney
The business of travel: An interactive map. See where people are going, how much they're spending and where travel and tourism is a viable career. By Sheryl ...
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New Orleans tourism battens down the hatches

New Orleans tourism battens down the hatches
USA TODAY
Hotels are expected to remain open and serve guests, as long as there is not a mandatory evacuation order. A mandatory evacuation order is not expected at this time. Visitors, you may wish to contact your hotel if you have questions about your reservation.

New Orleans Travel Ties Cut as Isaac Threatens Gulf Coast
Businessweek
New Orleans's travel routes are being severed as airlines and railroads brace for Isaac, the strengthening tropical storm menacing a region not fully recovered from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The city's airport is shut today after ...

Travel tech mature but Asia's adoption slow
ZDNet
Summary: Travel agents in Asia-Pacific are reluctant to adopt the latest technologies despite these being mature as they are averse to change and their customer base prefer human interaction over electronic transactions. Liau Yun Qing. By Liau Yun Qing ...

Raiders Travel Packages Put Fans on the Road with the Team: Fan's Look
Yahoo! Sports
I think part of the excitement of being a fan of the Oakland Raiders (or any other NFL team) is not only watching the home games in your home stadium, but traveling to other cities to watch your team play away games. When traveling to away games ...

Business travel to, from Canada grew in Q1
CTV News
OTTAWA -- Statistics Canada says overnight business travel to and from Canada increased at a faster pace than pleasure travel in the first quarter this year. Canadian travellers made 673,000 overnight business trips to the United States in the first ...

Huge travel weekend likely
South Bend Tribune
According to AAA, 33 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more this weekend, a 2.9 percent increase from last year. That's the highest level of travel for Labor Day since the start of the recession in late 2007. Topics · Petroleum Industry ...

More Southern Californians plan to travel over Labor Day weekend
Los Angeles Times
Despite higher airfares and gasoline prices, Southern Californians plan to travel in big numbers for the upcoming Labor Day weekend, marking 12 months of expected travelincreases on holidays, according to the Auto Club of Southern California. "Given ...

Los Angeles Times

Atlas Travel Expands, Opens Midwest Office
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
MILFORD, Mass., Aug. 28, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ -- Atlas Travel has hired Patrick "PJ" Mazza as Director of Business Development for their Midwest hub as part of their 2012 expansion. Earlier in the year Atlas announced that it would be developing hub ...

2nd Yosemite visitor dies of rodent-borne illness
Boston.com
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A second person has died of a rare, rodent-borne disease after visiting one of the most popular parts of Yosemite National Park earlier this summer, and park officials were warning past visitors to be aware of ...

TRAVEL: Hertz, at long last, buying Dollar Thrifty
North County Times
TRAVEL: Hertz, at long last, buying Dollar Thrifty. Print Email. 2012-08-27T15:00:00Z 2012-08-27T17:18:09Z TRAVEL: Hertz, at long last, buying Dollar ThriftySAMANTHA BOMKAMP Associated Press North County Times. 5 hours ago • SAMANTHA ...

Tripbirds takes another swoop at social travel — European - GigaOM
By Bobbie Johnson
After trying its hand as a pure-play social recommendations service, travel website Tripbirds has relaunched with a strong focus on hotel booking. But will its smart look and Facebook integration be enough to help it overcome the vast amount ...
GigaOM

Travel Tuesday: Barbados Anyone?! | Black and Married With Kids ...
By Kirstin Fuller
Barbados is a beautiful island paradise. It's also known as the culinary capital of the Caribbean. Wouldn't it be fabulou if you could experience the island & delicious food?
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Intrepid Travel serves up foodie partnership with Perennial Plate ...
By Nick Vivion
Intrepid Travel, an Australian travel tour company dedicated to "responsible and experiential travel", has announced a long-term partnership with sustainable food filmmakers The Perennial Plate.
Tnooz

About The Bay: San Francisco Tourism Booming « CBS San Francisco
By Andre Torrez
About the Bay: San Francisco Tourism Booming. “In San Francisco it's 30 percent up in internationaltravel versus previous years,” said Matt Stiker with the San Francisco Travel Association, the city'stourism agency. He said those numbers are ...
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Answering Reader Mail: Travel, Life, TEFL, Instagram | Nomadic ...
Earlier this year, I started doing video Q&A's on my Facebook page. But between slow internet connections in rural Cambodia, a book to finish, and everyday life, ...
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BBC - Travel - The culinary heart of America's heartland : Food ...
Want more Travel? Twitter Follow BBC ... A degree in sustainable travel Eco- tourism ... BBCTravel content is produced in partnership with Lonely Planet. Lonely ...
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Discovery Tours By Gate 1 Travel Now Offers More Of The World To ...
From Yahoo! News: Gate 1 Travel now provides more of the world to see, and is also now offering all small group tours in Europe for less money.
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atom technologies ties up with travel firm eZeeCLOUD for web ...
The partnership will help hotels registered with eZeeCLOUD to accept real-time payments and enable round-the- clock transactions.
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The charisma of La Coruña

The charisma of La Coruña | Travel | The Observer: "Often-overlooked La Coruña in northern Spain is just the place to find good food, fabulous beaches and a dash of culture"

BBC - Travel - Isle of the tiger : Nature & Outdoors, Great Britain
Web link http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20120823-isle-of-the-tiger ... A degree in sustainable travelEco-tourism; Wednesday Aug 22 The art of Japan Kyoto ...
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Isaac delays Ryan travel to Tampa
Politico (blog)
Paul Ryan will now travel to Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, after weather conditions delayed his departure by one day. The Wisconsin lawmaker was originally set to make his way to the Republican convention Monday afternoon. Just days before formally ...

China Southern Profit Slumps 84% on Slower Travel, Fuel Prices
Bloomberg
China Southern Airlines Co. (1055), Asia's biggest carrier by passenger numbers, said first-half profit tumbled 84 percent because of an economic slowdown, higher fuel prices and currency fluctuations. Net income fell to 449 million yuan ($70.6 million ...

Ask a travel pro: Cruising is affordable travel option
STLtoday.com
As mentioned previously, book early with your travel professional, select your shore excursions, read up on your cruise destinations and be realistic about what you can do in a day, book your spa treatments or specialty items as early as possible.

Golden: Embracing a tourism brand in MetroWest
Daily News Transcript
And now that she's plugging a new program co-sponsored by our nation's travel and tourism industry and the U.S. government, I'll just go ahead and say it right out: “I love the way Rosanne Carter sings “Land of Dreams,” both for the pure joy she ...

A strong season for tourism industry
Boston.com
“People are staying closer to home and looking for good value and interesting and authentic experiences that don't break the bank,” Betsy Wall, executive director of the Massachusetts Office ofTravel & Tourism, said in a prepared statement. Hotel and ...

Favorite travel stories: Three chance encounters by Dover adventurer
Foster's Daily Democrat
A big part of the experience you have when you travel is the people you meet. It's actually a big part of everyday life, if first ... It's for this reason that I strike up conversations with as many people as I can while I travel. Here are three of my ...

OnTrade debuts a B2B deal marketplace for travel industry ...
By Robin Wauters
OnTrade's approach allows companies to set up representatives to sell the products in different countries and post offers that are relevant for different regions or sectors, catering to the way the global (and huge) travel industry works.
The Next Web

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Minister of Tourism executes administrative shake-up - Daily News ...
By Daily News Egypt
Tourism minister carrying out decisive administrative changes at four authorities.
Daily News Egypt

Sri Lanka planning tourism campaign in Russia, India ... - eTurboNews
The minister intends on kick-starting the campaign by November this year in Huanzhou to coincide with the annual China International Travel Mart (CITM). Japan was not selected for this campaign since tourism promotions were conducted ...

InfinityList – Ryan Doyle Travel Story : Freerunning in Jordan
By InfinityList
August 27 2012. Parkour. Tags: action sports, bull, desert, episode 5, extreme, flips, free running, Freerunning, Jordan, parcour, Parkour, Petra, RED, redbull, ryan doyle, sand, Story, travel, World Wonders ...
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Web Travel Agent MyReviewsNow.net Spotlights Limited Time Sale ...
Web travel agent and consumer reviews hub MyReviewsNow.net features Sun- Sational Summer Savings event on now at its affiliate partner Sandals.com.
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Airlines to customers: You can't wear that

Airlines to customers: You can't wear that
NBCNews.com
In the early years of jet travel, passengers dressed up and confrontations over clothing were unimaginable. They're still rare — there aren't any precise numbers — but when showdowns happen, they gain more attention as aggrieved passengers complain ..."Last week, Arijit Guha, a graduate student at Arizona State University, was barred from a Delta flight in Buffalo, N.Y., because of a T-shirt that mocked federal security agents and included the words, "Terrists gonna kill us all." He says the misspelled shirt was satirical and he wore it to protest what he considers racial profiling."

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'Trip Flip' takes California couple on NY vacation
New York Daily News
A California couple was treated to a whirlwind surprise trip to New York City for theTravel Channel's “Trip Flip,” packing in more adventures in three days than most locals experience in a lifetime. The intrepid tourists took some swings with Babe ...

New York Daily News

NYC Shootings Strike a City That Prizes Tourism
ABC News
That's exactly the message city officials have strived to send for the past two decades, making aggressive efforts to combat crime, to turn once-seedy Times Square into a G-rated entertainment district — and to cast tourism as an economic-development ...

ABC News

Storm forces GOP to scrap first day of convention
Boston.com
Reince Priebus, the Republican Party chairman, told reporters on an early evening conference call that no state delegations had changed their travel plans because of the storm. ''Everyone is planning on being here and we hope we are up and running and ...

Travel south for exotic plants, creatures
Coshocton Tribune
Earlier in the summer, I wrote about the trip to the Grand Canyon and the difference in the terrain. This past week, I rode the ol' Harley-Davidson down south to Georgia and Florida. Going through West Virginia and Virginia is always nice with the ...

solo travel | travel orders | our life in the foreign service
By Alex
Everyone should at some point in life travel somewhere in the world completely alone. Last week I did just this: wandered around Paris by myself for a day.
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BMWK Weekend Travel Guide: Sundays in the Redwoods is Back ...
By Kirstin Fuller
Jamaica's legendary Reggae band 'Third World.' Marsha Ambrosius, Jeffrey Osborne and Avery Sunshine perform.
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9 Reasons To Quit Your Job And Travel The World | Thought Catalog
By Taryn Adler
Almost one year ago today, I left my job, sublet my apartment, and booked a one-way ticket to Mumbai. Between bathing elephants in India, teaching English in Laos and trekking through the jungles of Indonesia, I've learned a lot about life.
Thought Catalog

What Airlines Consider “Appropriate” Attire For Travel « CBS Dallas ...
By atgarciacbsnews
Airlines passengers are learning more about what is considered "appropriate" attire for traveling on an airplane.
CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

Are travel packages cheaper? - Yahoo! Answers
Travel websites can provide separate bookings for …
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Internet Travel Agent MyReviewsNow.net's Affiliate Partner Riu.com ...
Riu.com, which is a featured affiliate partner of consumer reviews and Internet travel agent MyReviewsNow.net, invested over $13 million dollars to renovate the ...
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Omega Travel Recommits To Continue Providing Excellent Travel ...
One of the world's largest companies specializing in travel insurance and assistance, OmegaTravel has continued to offer a variety of plans that meet all ...
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ARABICA TRAVEL 6DAYS/5NIGHTS KENYA SAFARI PROGRAM
You will be met on arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by a representative of ArabicaTravel and drive north to the Aberdares region where you will ...
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Travel tech Q&A: OzForex's David Higgins
ZDNet
I prefer to travel as light as possible. My Android smartphone does just about everything that I'll need to do whilst on the move in a small package. Also, noise-cancelling headphones make all the difference between being able to enjoy a movie on a ...

ZDNet

Travel Photo Contest 2012 winners
Washington Post
Travel Photo Contest 2012 winners. There were majestic peaks mirrored in mountain lakes, storm clouds brewing over wind-whipped oceans, the cobblestoned streets of European cities and the dusty lanes of Asian and African villages. In the end, the1,400 ...

South Florida tourism officials, attractions preparing for weather
MiamiHerald.com
... home or travel elsewhere. In Miami-Dade and Broward, visitors bureaus prepared to set up in county emergency operations centers and help hotels in evacuation zones find places inland where they could send guests if necessary. Broward tourism chief ...

Scabs of War and Tourism in Colombo, Sri Lanka
USA TODAY (blog)
By Brian Spencer. Tip too much and I'll feel like a clueless, imperialist white globetrotter blithely handing out bills like penny candy to the little people in an exotic land who “need it more than you do.” I'll feel like a walking piggy bank, this ...

Are Travel Websites and Hotels Fixing Prices?
CNBC.com (blog)
"The fact is that a consumer is led to believe that if he or she looks through a whole bunch of websites, you're gonna find the best deal," Mark Orwoll of Travel + Leisure magazine tells NBC News. "The fact is, that's a shame because there is really no ...

Travel photo contest: Vote for your favorite
Washington Post
Travel photo contest: Vote for your favorite. Share: More >. Facebook · Twitter · LinkedIn · Reddit · StumbleUpon · Digg · Delicious. top: -5px;">Google +1. 0 Comments. « PREVIOUS. 1 of 15. NEXT ». 'While traveling in Bosnia-Herzegovina with my great ...

Professional photographers offer tips on improving your shots
Washington Post
Pros get those shots reliably, even at the old standards of tourism (Eiffel Tower, anyone?). So why is it that when we travel to the same spot, our shots look nothing like what we see in magazines? We asked some pros to pick favorite images that typify ...

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Standby travel: Not for the faint of heart

Standby travel: Not for the faint of heart
CNN
It's just one of many typical standby travel scenarios, in which passengers are faced with tough decisions in their efforts to snag unclaimed airline seats at deep discounts. Family stuck in airport five days. There are two forms of standby travel: One ...

Travel briefs
MiamiHerald.com
“In the absence of strong economic growth that might fuel a significant boost in travel volume, it is an encouraging sign that Americans continue to prioritize travel,” Bill Sutherland, vice president of AAA Travel Services said in a statement. “Travel ...

Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Innsbruck
Reuters
INNSBRUCK, Austria (Reuters) - Next time you are in The Alps for your skiing holidays or on your way from Germany to Italy, spend some time in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian province of Tyrol and host city of two Olympic Winter Games. While it ...

Taylor Swift Good for Cape Cod Tourism? Well, She's No Shark (or Bear)
E! Online
Taylor Swift Good for Cape Cod Tourism? Well, She's No Shark (or Bear). by Joal Ryan Today 6:00 AM PDT. Tweet. Taylor Swift, Conor Kennedy WENN.com. Have you heard how Taylor Swift has spent her summer vacation at Cape Cod? Of course you have ...

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George Zimmerman gets permission to travel to Orange County
Orlando Sentinel
SANFORD - The judge in the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case agreed this morning to let the defendant travel to Orange County but only to go to his lawyers' offices. Defense attorney Don West this morning asked Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester to let ...

Tropical Storm Isaac prompts some airlines to waive change fees
Los Angeles Times
JetBlueis telling passengers who were slated to travel between Wednesday and Friday that they have until Monday to change or cancel their plans without charge. Destinations covered include Saint Lucia, St. Maarten, St. Croix, St. Thomas in the U.S ...

Four Seasons exec: Incentive travel makes comeback
USA TODAY
Readers: Hotel Check-In last week sat down with Craig Reid, president of hotel operations for Four Seasons' Americas division, to discuss the state of luxury travel in today's still-uncertain economy. We spoke during the luxury travel agency network ...

Friday Travel Ticker: The less-than-friendly skies
Los Angeles Times
An L.A.-bound JetBlue flight from New York was forced to make an emergency landing in Denver this week when a Chicago man allegedly groped a pregnant woman, then refused to follow crew instructions. Authorities say the 32-year-old was intoxicated and ...

Republicans Target Attorney General Eric Holder's Jet Travel : Roll ...
By HumbertoSanchez@cqrollcall.com (Humberto Sanchez)
Working off information from a Department of Justice whistle-blower, four Republican lawmakers are seeking information on the use of FBI planes by top DOJ officials, including Attorney General Eric Holder.
Roll Call: Daily News

Hillsboro School Board debates its own travel expenses during a ...
By Wendy Owen, The Oregonian
Hillsboro School District has sliced days and reduced teacher training, and a few board members are asking why the board, itself, hasn't cutback its $13000 travel budget.
Washington County News

Prince Harry Nude Photos Boosting Las Vegas Tourism
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Prince Harry Nude Photos Boosting Las Vegas Tourism. Posted: 08/23/2012 11:45 am Updated: 08/24/2012 8:52 am. reddit stumble · Share on Google+. Get Travel Alerts: Sign Up. React: Amazing Inspiring Funny Scary Hot Crazy Important ...
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Schwarzkopf Foundation Travel Grants | Mladiinfo
By antiva
The Schwarzkopf Foundation offers travel grants to enable young people (aged 18 to 26 or 17 to 25) to undertake field trips investigating political and cultural developments in neighboring European countries.
Mladiinfo

My healthiest day of international travel - One Mile at a Time
By lucky
Yesterday I posted about my intentions to eat as healthy as possible and be active while traveling, as I've been a bit unhealthy lately with all my travel. Anyway, I just wanted to post a quick follow up on my experience. My morning yesterday ...
One Mile at a Time

Reports: North Korea's Kim Jong Un will travel to Iran - World News
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is planning to travel to Tehran next week, in his first overseas visit since taking over after his father's death in December, South ...
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Finding travel bargains during GOP National Convention - CBS News
CBS News video: Finding travel bargains during GOP National Convention - How will Tropical ...
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PressTV - Kenya sees drop in tourism income
To wrestle with the thorny issue, the Kenyan tourism officials do their best to clear the perception of the market that Kenya is indeed a safe place to travel to.
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The Thrill of Sailing in Croatia

The Thrill of Sailing in Croatia | Europe & Beyond
By Jan G
During the summer months, the average water temperature is between 24 - 27 degrees Celsius, and the days are very warm and nights bring cooling breezes. Where are we then? Croatia - sailing on the gorgeous Adriatric sea........
Europe & Beyond

Travel Share: Q&A with Geraldine DeRuiter of Everywhereist
Condé Nast Traveler
If you've ever been forced to sit through a slideshow of photos from your friend's vacation, made someone else sit through yours, or spent any time at all on Facebook or Twitter, then you know what a huge part sharing plays in the thrill of travel. Not ...

Condé Nast Traveler

More than 1.2 million Michigan residents have Labor Day travel plans, reports AAA
Sacramento Bee
"We are encouraged by all of the signs of a rebound in state travel this year," said Steve Wagner, AAA Michigan President. "There is a pent-up demand for travel and our economy is improving. We expect our summer tourism will be up over last year ...

Winning the travel rewards game
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Meet George Papadopoulos. By day he's a certified public accountant and financial planner. At night, he uses the same analytical skills for his hobby: cashing in big-time on travel rewards. Recently he took his family of four on ...

New Interactive Travel and Atlas Apps
New York Times
If there's one advantage the app revolution has brought to the book world, it's that often unwieldy tomes like atlases can be transformed into vivid, dynamic programs that bring the world outside traditional books to life — through animation, music ...

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Kayak: The Travel Upstart Google Could Crush
Businessweek
Amid the wreckage of Facebook's (FB) public debut and Groupon's (GRPN) perpetual goring, it's easy to overlook one of the few tech IPOs that hasn't flopped in 2012: Kayak Software (KYAK), the meta-search travel site that combs a variety of sites when ...

Namibia to host tourism summit
New Era
WINDHOEK – Namibia, after it outbid a host of other countries, has been awarded the bid to host the 2013 Adventure Travel World Summit. The news has put the Minister of Environment and Tourism, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, and Team Destination Namibia...

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Tourism Players Mull Single Comesa Visa
AllAfrica.com
One of the main agenda will be to discuss - how to push their various governments to have a singletravel visa within the region. Speaking while opening the forum, Tourism Minister Danson Mwazo - said despite the region having most of the best tourist ...

US puts the brakes on American trips to Cuba
USA TODAY
According to a recent column by Detroit Free Press travel writer Ellen Creager, almost no organizations with previous people-to-people licenses from the U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) have received renewals. ... license ...

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Luxury Travel Unveils Day Trip to Vung Tau Beach from Saigon Every Day
JustLuxe.com
He has worked in the travel industry for over 15 years, traveled extensively, and has become atourism expert and keynote speaker in the luxury travel industry in Vietnam and around the globe. Pham Ha ... Said Pham Ha, CEO of Luxury Travel Ltd. For a ...

Taste of travel: Blend with nature at Lake Placid Lodge in New York
Enterprise News
If you live close enough, you can drive to Lake Placid in upstate New York, or you can take a train. But, if you fly, you'll have to endure the white-knuckled 10-seat (counting the pilot) Cape Air flight to the Sarantec Lake Adirondacks. The ride is ...

Travel Site Class-Action Lawsuit Alleges Price-Fixing Scheme ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
If you use online travels sites like Orbitz or Priceline to shop around for the best hotel deals, you might be wasting your time.
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GSA seeks more savings in travel spending - Management ...
By Eric Katz
Freezing per diem rates was first step in reducing costs.
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Spain sees record tourism spike fueled by German tourists | The ...
By Agence France-Presse
Holidaymakers headed to recession-hit Spain in record numbers in July, official data showed Wednesday, propelled in particular by a boom in the number of German tourists. Foreign tourist numbers surged by 328000, or 4.4 percent, from last ...
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Travel Nursing Jobs Leader, Aureus Medical, Announces Top ...
News: October is a peak month for tourism in many areas of the country. ... medical staffing agency announces destinations that those working in travel nursing ...
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SA stowaway found at Heathrow | News24
A stowaway found dead in London is believed to be the same person Cape Town International Airport security tried to stop from scaling the airport fencing.
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Travel sites, hotels accused of price-fixing

Travel sites, hotels accused of price-fixing
San Francisco Chronicle
Expedia Inc., Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and Marriott International Inc., are among a group of online travel sites and hotels accused of conspiring to fix prices for hotel rooms. The sites and hotels are named in a complaint filed Tuesday ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Labor Day travel expected to increase despite higher fuel costs
Los Angeles Times
An additional 2.55 million Americans will travel by plane, a 3.7% increase over 2011, the group said. ALSO: U.S. travel and tourism on pace to set spending record · First coordinated U.S. tourismcampaign to launch in May · Californians to travel by ...

Is the door slamming shut for travel from US to Cuba?
Detroit Free Press
Organizations seeking renewal had to document every minute of every day for every single trip they had done in the past year to prove that they were doing “People to People” activities and not tourism. Then, most of them heard nothing. Weeks and months ...

Allegiant to start offering nonstop flights between Phoenix and Honolulu ...
Washington Post
In connection with the new non-stop service from Phoenix, the company will offer introductory fares starting at $199 each way for flights purchased by Aug. 28 for travel through April 16, 2013. The Hawaii Tourism Authority estimates the new route will ...

North Korea trying to build trade, tourism hub
Washington Post
Post Tech | Hayley Tsukayama · Lifestyle · In Lifestyle · Advice · Carolyn Hax · Food · Home & Garden · Style · Travel · Weddings · Wellness · Magazine · KidsPost ... North Korea trying to build trade, tourism hub. North Korea trying to build trade ...

Sustainable Tourism Among Top Luxury Travel Trends
Luxury Travel Magazine
Much like 'Fashion Week' establishes style trends for the season to come, leading luxury travel network Virtuoso® revealed during its recent 'Virtuoso Travel Week' conference the latest developments that will set the standard in upscale, experiential ...

Luxury Travel Magazine

Tiger tourism ban to continue: SC
Hindustan Times
Extending the ban on tourism activities in the core areas of tiger reserves, the Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the Centre for the depleting population of the wild cats in the country. A bench of justice AK Patnaik and justice Swatanter Kumar put ...

Tourism Sector Performs Poorly in Q2
AllAfrica.com
"It seems evident that consumers around the world are still hesitant to spend their money on travel - they see the price tag in relation to perceived value," commented Gitta Paetzold, representative of the Federation of Tourism Associations of Namibia ...

Four Green Travel Business Best Practices
By Bill Roth
travel manager the secret green sauce sb12 sabre holdings hotel sustainability green travel industry green meetings Businesses spend $230 billion on travel. Traveling to customers and key suppliers is good business, but the challenge is ...
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

Montenegro Travel: A Diamond In The Rough (PHOTOS)
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Montenegro Travel Guide. The name of this south-eastern European country translates "Black Mountain". WatchMojo.com learns more about tourism in Montenegro. Contribute to this Story: Send us a tip; Send us a photo or video; Suggest a ...
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Ogilvy Lands Fiji Tourism
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Ogilvy PR Worldwide has aced the Tourism Fiji and Air Pacific accounts in a heated competitive pitch. Full Story | Subscribe to O'Dwyer's | Free E-Newsletter on PR. Posted by Kevin McCauley intravel at 14:15 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) ...
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Tweet-Up: Adventure Travel Tips - Carry On | Travel + Leisure
Craving a little thrill in your life? Not sure where to start or what to look for? Then join us tomorrow for a live tweet-up—hosted by Nikki Goldstein, editorial assistant and adventure traveler—and we'll help get you squared away! We've gathered ...
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Medical Tourism Marketing Innovation Launched By IHT World ...
News: IHT World launched a low cost medical tourism marketing innovation, a unique medicaltourism directory created for hospital and clinics to add their ...
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Canadian travel abroad hits 40-year high - Windsor - CBC News
Statistics Canada says Canadians took nearly 2.8 million overnight trips abroad in June — the highest monthly figure in four decades.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/.../canada-travel-june.html

When to use Swiss Flexi-pass | Europe Forum | Fodor's Travel Talk ...
Hello, My husband and I are traveling in Switzerland in October and plan to purchase a 2 for 1, 4 day Swiss Flexi-pass. I am trying to figure out which days will be ...
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Government developing medical tourism roadmap | Sun.Star
THE government is crafting the roadmap on medical tourism to help advance key ... is also chairman emeritus of the National Association of Independent Travel ...
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