Virgin America

Virgin America wins top honors in Conde Nast Traveler 2008 Business Travel Poll

SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 24, 2008 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Virgin America, the California-based airline on a mission to make flying good again, today took the top honors for "best Business/First Class"

Japan

Government plans to poll foreign tourists in Kyoto

OSAKA - The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry in September likely will begin polling foreign tourists in Kyoto to get their opinions on sightseeing locations and find out common questions t

Hoteliers vote Japanese world's best tourists - poll

Going on holiday soon? It would help if you became more like the Japanese.

Japanese, who were voted by hoteliers as the world's best tourists in a global travel survey released this month.

Winchester Mansions

Only South African hotel in world top 100

Winchester Mansions, Cape Town's beachfront boutique hotel, is the only South African property to make the 2008 Top 100 Best Value listing of the popular American travel publication - Budget Travel Magazine and TripAdvisor.

Taiwan

Poll highlights tourism hotspots

The East Rift Valley was determined to be vacationers' favorite spot, but Beitou Cape and Turtle Island were the most visited because of their proximity to cities.

When Robert Chen (程安賢) came back to Taiwan two years ago after living in the US for 26 years, he did not expect Taiwan would be so beautiful -- until his four-day ... read more