Cuba's paper wall falls

Cuba's paper wall falls
Los Angeles Times
For 50 years, Cubans have been prevented from leaving their country by an anachronistic and repressive travel policy that has aptly been compared to a paper version of the Berlin Wall. The government's announcement Tuesday that it plans to end this ...

Travel To Cuba Easier, For Cubans | Gadling.com
By Chris Owen
Travel to and from Cuba took a progressive turn this week as restrictions dating back a half-century were lifted for Cubans, allowing them to leave.
Gadling

Yoani Sanchez: Will Raul Castro's Travel Reforms End My Own ...
By Yoani Sanchez
I will be there when they open the doors to decide which Cubans can board a plane and which will continue under the "insular imprisonment." And my suitcase will be at my side.
Cuba on Huffington Post

On Our Radar: Tigers and Tourism
New York Times (blog)
India's Supreme Court lifts a ban on tourism in tiger reserves after the government announces new rules intended to allow tourism to co-exist with conservation. No new hotels or other tourist facilities can be created in the tiger areas, and only 20 ...

New York Times (blog)

Haley: SC tourism is reaching new levels
Businessweek
Nikki Haley said Wednesday the state's $15 billion tourism industry is reaching new levels and garnering worldwide attention despite the troubled economy. Haley stopped by the birthplace of the state, the Charles Towne Landing Historic Site, to talk ...

American Express sees business-travel costs rising
MarketWatch
s (NYSE:AXP) travel agency has forecast a modest increase in global business travel prices for 2013 as the fiscal crisis in Europe offsets increased business interest in growing economies, such as Brazil, India and Russia. American Express Global ...

American puts up 'help wanted' sign after buyouts
Boston.com
American says its flight attendants make about $45,000 a year on average, not including a supplement for meals and other travel expenses. American's flight attendants stay in the job for an average of 21 years — longer than any other work group.

Travel from US up, overseas visits drop in August: StatsCan
CTV News
Statistics Canada reports that eight of the country's 12 largest overseas travel markets decreased their trips to Canada, with the largest drops reported from the Netherlands, France and Australia. However, Canada saw a spike in visitors from Hong Kong ...

CTV News

Make Business Travel Easier with the Right Suitcase from SportsDirect.com
Sacramento Bee
Travelling for business can sometimes prove more hectic than regular holiday travel, last minute flights or trains to catch, extra documents, electronics and suits which can't be creased call for a different breed of luggage. Luckily, one of the UK's ...

Govt Backs Tourism
AllAfrica.com
In a speech read on her behalf by Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Walter Mzembi at the launch of Sanganai/Hlanganani World Travel and Tourism Africa Fair 2012, Vice President Mujuru - who is also the patron of the tourism sector - said the ...

Tourism Stakeholders Discuss State of Preparedness for the Season
AllAfrica.com
Stakeholders in the tourism industry, under the aegis of the Gambia Tourism Board (GTBoard), met recently in a consultative forum at the Paradise Suites Hotel in Kololi, to among other things, discuss the country's state of preparedness and way forward ...

Korea Tourism Organization To Announce 'Era of KOREAN Medical Care WAVE ...
Sacramento Bee
'Korea International Medical Tourism Convention' has been held since 2008 in KOREA to forecast the future market by creating a platform for exchanging cutting edge information and on-site business meetings and to expand the position of KOREAN Medical ...

Travel report: Gent - Bloesem
By Bloesem
Fenny from F to Fabulous is taking us to Belgium today ... and to be more precise to Gent, a beautiful characteristic city that I have been to a very long time ago, but seeing and reading Fenny's report makes...
Bloesem

Red Fish Grill named to Travel + Leisure's best seafood restaurants ...
By Susan Langenhennig, The Times-Picayune
Hollygrove Market extends its hours. St. Lawrence teams with St. James Cheese for a cheese and beer dinner.
New Orleans Living

The Radar: Travel Lately – Intelligent Travel
By Intelligent Travel
For those of you who are paying attention, we're switching it up. A more robust Radar — the best of the travel blogosphere (don't you hate that word?) — will now be a regular feature on Intelligent Travelevery Wednesday. You can play, too.
Intelligent Travel

Tourism has the potential to become Burma's biggest source of ...
The Asian Development Bank says tourism could become Burma's biggest source of revenue and estimates that foreign visits will soon top 1 million per year for ...
www.theinformationdaily.com/.../tourism-has-the-potential-to-...

Want to Guess How Business Travel and Foreign Tourism are Doing ...
So this is all kinds of bad. Apparently the recovery in business travel that began in 2010 is slowing down dramatically, and potentially dragging the airline ...
www.jaunted.com/.../Want+to+Guess+How+Business+Travel+...

Hill Country Travel Guide is pleased to announce new restaurants ...
San Antonio, Texas (PRWEB) October 18, 2012 Hill Country Travel Guide is pleased to announce new restaurants and shopping in both of Austin and San ...
news.yahoo.com/hill-country-travel-guide-pleased-announce-r...

Travel executives will play lead roles in Best Buy's transformation ...
The Great Recession and Internet comparison shoppers forced airlines and travel agencies to rapidly revamp their business models or die.Now consumer ...
www.minnpost.com/.../travel-executives-will-play-lead-roles-b...

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