Disneyland Resort Update

Disneyland Resort Update
USA TODAY (blog)
Toontown Morning Madness lets guests who have booked vacation packages through the Walt Disney Travel Company enter Toontown one hour before the land opens to other Disneyland guests, giving them an opportunity to enjoy plenty of character ...

Pluses of travel outweigh hardship, business travelers say
USA TODAY
Most say business travel has positively affected their professional reputation and career opportunities. A small percentage — 13% — says business travel has negatively affected their emotional health, and 20% say it has affected their physical health.

USA TODAY

Travel firms accused of fixing hotel prices
Telegraph.co.uk
British holidaymakers are likely to have been overcharged for hotel rooms because of a price-fixing scandal involving some of the world's biggest online travel companies, the Office of Fair Trading said yesterday after an investigation by The Daily Telegraph.

Telegraph.co.uk

Live Aqua Cancun Ranked Top Mexican Resort in Travel + Leisure's 2012 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MEXICO CITY, July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Live Aqua Cancun is celebrating its first place ranking in Travel + Leisure's 2012 World's Best Awards as the best resort in Mexico. This luxury adult-only oasis on the white-sand shoreline of Cancun ...

Summer Travel: FlightView Launches Version 2.0 of iPhone Travel App
MarketWatch (press release)
BOSTON, Jul 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Just as summer travel is in full swing, FlightView, the leading creator of mobile solutions for airports, airlines and travelers, has launched FlightView 2.0 for the iPhone. The newest version of the market's top ...

Gadhafi's son seeks travel ban waiver, lawyer says
CNN
Saadi Gadhafi is under United Nations sanctions that bar him from international travel; He wants to leave Niger because he fears for his safety, his lawyer Nick Kaufman says; The lawyer won't say where Saadi Gadhafi wants to go; Niger won't hand Gadhafi over to Libya, saying he won't get a fair trial. (CNN) -- Saadi Gadhafi, one of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's sons, has asked the United Nations to let him travel outside the African nation of Niger, his lawyer says. Gadhafi is under a travel ban because ...

Tuesday Travel Ticker: Hawaii forecast strong
Los Angeles Times
The forecast comes after the Hawaii Tourism Authority said that the industry is on course to break records this year .... London Mayor Boris Johnson, a disheveled, Latin-spouting figure, is so eccentric that one bookmaker offered odds of 33-1 that he would accidentally set his hair on fire ...Seattle, beyond the usual tourist haunts ... Los Angeles Times Daily Travel & Deal blogger Mary Forgione likes to hit the dirt when she's on vacation. An avid hiker and runner, Mary likes speed-touring cities on foot and sightseeing by ...

PaidContent Founder Rafat Ali Launches Travel News Site Skift ...
By Billy Gallagher
Ali and co-founder Jason Clampet, who ran Frommers.com's original content efforts, aim to disrupt the enormous travel industry with a site that offers a combination of original media content and data tools to users, especially business travelers.
TechCrunch

NBC Interviewed A Random Tourist About The Queen, And Didn't ...
By Barry Petchesky
This morning's Today Show was still, for some reason, talking about that opening ceremony bit with Daniel Craig and HRH Queen Elizabeth II. They decided to get some "man on the street" comments from tourists in front of Buckingham Palace ...
Deadspin

Intercontinental Sanya Resort / WOHA | ArchDaily
By Jonathan Alarcon
Patrick Bingham-Hall Architects: WOHA Location: 27号 Luling Rd, Sanya, Hainan, China Architect In Charge: Richard Hassell, Wong Mun Summ, Herbert.
ArchDaily

Flight+ travel app now has free ad supported versions for iOS - TUAW
By Mel Martin
I raved last April about Flight+, a travel app from International Airport Flight Track Technologies. Flight+ diligently tracks every flight in the world, alerting you to delays and gate changes while relaying the current position of your chosen flight on ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

America's best lake: And the winner is ... - Travel - USA Today
USA TODAY Travel ... Latest Travel Advice Headlines ... haunts and discovering new ones for a story and photos that will appear in USA TODAY Travel on Aug.
travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/...the.../1

Taipei pinning tourism hopes on micromovie series - Taipei Times
With an eye on potential tourist markets in China and South Korea, the Taipei ... From left, singer Hu Xia, Taipei Information and Tourism Commissioner Chao ...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/.../2003539175

BWI-Marshall Sets New Travel Record « CBS Baltimore
Business is booming at BWI-Marshall airport, as a new travel record is set.
baltimore.cbslocal.com/.../bwi-marshall-sets-new-travel-record...

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