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.
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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 ...
CBS San Francisco

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.
economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/.../15897604.cms

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