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Ahead of the Bell: Online travel sites

Online Travel Sites

Ahead of the Bell: Online travel sites

By forbes.com

NEW YORK - Orbitz Worldwide Inc. was downgraded and earnings estimates for online travel competitors Priceline.com Inc. and Expedia Inc.

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What this growing international trend means for the travel industry

Online Bookings Worldwide

What this growing international trend means for the travel industry

By traveldailynews.com

Online travel booking has become an international trend.

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Abandoned nuclear reactors generate new surge of tourism

Nuke Tourism?

Abandoned nuclear reactors generate new surge of tourism

HANFORD, Wash.

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Beijing's top tourism sites: Monumental

China

Beijing's top tourism sites: Monumental

By usatoday.com

BEIJING — You don't need a guide book to know four of this city's five "Must Sees" of travel. Just get the boxed set of travel coffee mugs sold at most Starbucks in Beijing.

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Tourists' most embarrassing questions revealed by English Heritage

UK

Tourists' most embarrassing questions revealed by English Heritage

English Heritage has released a list of the most embarrassing questions asked by visitors to the country's historic sites and the worst is an unwitting insult to one of Britain's most sombre monarchs.

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Cappucci-No: Rome bans snacks at tourist sites

per favore non di mangiare

Cappucci-No: Rome bans snacks at tourist sites

ROME — Don't chow, bella! At least not on the steps of Roman monuments.

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Northern Iraq's Kurdish region seeks tourists

Next vacation - paris, hawaii or...iraq... Decisions, decisions...

Northern Iraq's Kurdish region seeks tourists

The Minister of Tourism for northern Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdish region, Nimrud Baito Youkhana, says there is plenty for tourists to see in what is known as the cradle of civilization.

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Tourism sector logs onto travel-guide sites

The $2-billion Online Travel Industry Is Getting Crowded

Tourism sector logs onto travel-guide sites

NEW DELHI: The $2-billion online travel industry is getting crowded. After various travel portals trying to woo holiday makers to book on their website, it’s user review websites such as HolidayIQ and Trippundit that are mushrooming. These sites don’t sell holiday packages or tickets but tell you more about holiday destinations—what to ... read more

Next generation in meta-search: Content, context and customization

Online Comparison Sites Move Beyond Price

Next generation in meta-search: Content, context and customization

Six to eight billion — according to Yen Lee, a former Yahoo! manager and now president of Internet start-up Kango.com, that’s approximately how many travel-related searches are conducted in North America each year on the Web’s major search engines.

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