ASEAN Competitive Enhancement
By Don Ross and Imtiaz Muqbil
The USAID-funded ASEAN Competitive Enhancement project, by promoting Myanmar, breaches the rules on how it is allowed to disburse funds and must be changed if Congress intervenes.
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Air Safety Improvement Bill
By MELANIE TROTTMAN and ANDY PASZTOR
The airline industry and Congressional leaders are at odds over funding for plans to speed modernization of the U.S. air traffic control system and improve aviation safety.
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Frank Vismeg Shares His Thoughts
By eTN Staff Writer
Frank Vismeg, president of Skål International, Toronto North for 2010, returned recently with fresh inspiration from the 70th Skål International World Congress, held in Budapest, Hungary.
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Corporate Travel
By ERIN KELLY
When it comes to luring convention- and conference-goers this winter, sun-drenched resort towns may be too much fun for their own good.
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Miami Republican Defends Cuba Travel Ban
By William Gibson
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen rushed to the defense of the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba while others were blasting it at a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Thursday.
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US-Cuba Travel
By JUAN O. TAMAYO
WASHINGTON - A powerful campaign to allow all Americans to travel to Cuba is rumbling through Congress, with both backers and opponents predicting eventual victory and a Cuban-American Senator holding
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ATA Congress In Gambia
Banjul — Gambia will host the 35th Annual Congress of the Africa Travel Association (ATA) in May 2010.
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Travel Promotion Act
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Senate passed the Travel Promotion Act (S. 1023) on Wednesday, sending this hard-fought bill to the House of Representatives for action.
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Travel Promotion Act And K Street
Now that Disney has bought Marvel comics, it is reaching out for another partner: the federal government.
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2nd Annual World Medical Tourism And Global Health Congress
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd Annual World Medical Tourism & Global Health Congress, the largest medical tourism congress in the world, announces speakers, sponsors and record increase in attendance this comi
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US Congress
WASHINGTON — Congress is taking steps to toughen regulations on pilot training, qualifications and hours in response to accidents involving regional airlines, including a February crash in upstate N
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Business Travel Coalition Sends Letter To US Congress
By eTN Staff Writer
Business Travel Coalition (BTC) today, in the aftermath of National Transportation Safety Board hearings examining the Colgan Air crash, transmitted a letter to congress signed by sixty-five corporate
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Global Airline Alliances
By John Crawley, reuters.com
WASHINGTON - U.S.
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4th Brussels International – Tourism & Congress
By eTN Staff Writer
Buoyed by the success of the first three editions, BI-TC (Brussels International – Tourism & Congress) launched the 4th Brussels Meetings
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Cairo, Egypt, May 17-21, 2009
By eTN Staff Writer
Delegates to the 34th Annual Africa Travel Association (ATA) Congress in Cairo May 17-21, 2009 will have an exciting opportunity to explore “Egypt Beyond the Monuments” on pre- or post-conference
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Hospitality Industry
By Jean Francois Mourier & Bruno Perez, revparguru.com
For the past 6 months, most of us in the hotel industry have sat by watching the effect of Wall Street’s excesses, or the “AIG effect” impact the meetings industry.
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Airline Alliances
By money.cnn.com
An assault by U.S.
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Vienna Tourist Board Persuades Both To Hold Anniversaries Together
By eTN Staff Writer
VIENNA - The International Pharmaceutical Congress Advisory Association and the Associations Conference Forum are two of the most important organizations in the international congress business.
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ATA’s 2009 World Congress Means Business!
By eTN Staff Writer
NEW YORK, NY - The Africa Travel Association (ATA) announced today that it has launched online registration for its 34th Annual Congress, to take place at the Cairo International Conference Center fro
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Senators Boxer And Snowe Piloting New Law In The Senate
By eTN Staff Writer
NAPA, CA - FlyersRights.org issued the following statement from its spokesperson, Kate Hanni, on news that Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) today introduced the Airline Pa
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