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If you're booking a simple air ticket or a room at a hotel you know well, you may not need an agent. But for complex itineraries, tours, cruises and expensive trips, an agent can save time, ...
Travel & Tourism Industry
Berlin, GERMANY - World Travel & Tourism is expected to generate close to US$8 trillion in 2008, rising to approximately US$15 trillion over the next ten years, according to the latest Tourism ...
Saudis Trips To Pakistan
LAHORE - Saudi Arabia has tightened rules for its nationals, requiring them to obtain approval from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before Pakistani visas are endorsed on their passports.
Hong Kong
The Centre for Health Protection warns travellers to the Philippines to observe good personal hygiene amid reports more than 1,000 typhoid fever cases have occurred in the country ...
Lufthhansa Under Heavy Israeli Flak
By Jerusalem Post
Lufthansa's decision to cancel travel agents' commissions will ruin the Israeli travel industry, the director-general of the Israel Tourism and Travel Agents Association said Tuesday.
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Abortions Tourism?
Anti-choicers panic over "abortion tourism," but only the most privileged women can escape local "pro-life" laws. The rest simply suffer.
Traveling Pets
More than 29 million Americans say they've traveled with their pets in the last three years, according to the Travel Industry Association of America. So what are the best options for keeping your ...
China
BEIJING - The snow crisis that hit China over the Spring Festival period had a devastating effect on tourism in those provinces worst hit by the snowstorms, with revenues down nearly a third ...
ITB Asia
Messe Berlin (Singapore), organisers of the ITB Asia, the region’s newest travel trade show, have commissioned what is believed to be the first study on the future of small and medium sized ...
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Asian Airline Restrictions
Asian governments need to move faster to lift air restrictions to spur competition for carriers such as Malaysian Airline System Bhd. and Garuda Indonesia, an industry body said.
Buck Travel
The US dollar used to be the universal tourist currency, accepted almost anywhere, from the streets of Hanoi to the plains of Africa. But the continued slide of the dollar against other currencies ...
EnCirca
Boston, MA – February 12, 2008 – EnCirca, the world’s leading travel registrar, announces today its effort to assist customers in satisfying the new .travel use policy implemented in ...
No Insurance - No Space?
By Fox News
The personal spaceflight business — also known as space tourism — will face high hurdles from the insurance business in its early years, according to several industry experts.
Luggage Adventures
By Heidi Gaiser l dailyinterlake.com
We have to consider ourselves lucky to live in the United States for many reasons, but if we stop to think about it, customer service should probably be at the top of the list.
Love To Travel? Have You Been Scammed Yet?
From Floridian fraudsters to fake Peruvian police, these are the scoundrels out to scam you - plus, tell us your holiday scam horrors.
Ever had your holiday ruined by a con artist? Been ...
Venezuela
Leonardo Camacho, a committed capitalist, has little time for the socialist ideals espoused by President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. But even for him, the "Bolivarian revolution" has some redeeming ...
Fine Print Traps
Your cruise ship may not be seaworthy. Your airline isn’t responsible for your checked luggage. And if something’s stolen from your room, good luck getting the hotel to cover your ...
US Visa
By travel.timesonline.co.uk
London, UK - We would like to apologise for a terrible omission in last Sunday’s feature 10 Steps to a Stress-Free Summer. We forgot to include “Don’t go to the USA”.
China
BEIJING - The value of China's online travel market is to reach 3.84 billion yuan (519 million U.S. dollars) this year, with a projected growth rate of 70.7 percent, according to a nationwide ...
Travel Trends
My friend Betsy called me from in front of her stove, where she has been cooking for her four children for too many years to count.
"What's wrong with this picture?" she asked.
"I ...
WTTC Press Release
Dubai, United Arab Emirates - 21 January, 2008 - Despite repercussions of the ongoing global credit crunch, Travel & Tourism leaders today revealed that the industry will moderately be ...
New Zealand
New Zealanders flying overseas for a quick nip and tuck are returning with more than they bargained for, plastic surgeons warn.
Christchurch cosmetic surgeon Dr Howard Klein said there was ...
The Caribbean Hotel Association Marketplace 2008
Salutations
Valued travel partners, members of the worldwide media, colleagues and associates, ladies and gentlemen… welcome, and thank you all for joining me here today at The Caribbean ...
New Zealand
Fifteen years ago David Francis swapped his suit, tie and a career in chemical engineering for hiking boots, casual gear and the New Zealand sightseeing business he set up with his American wife, ...
Weak Dollar Travel
Nashville, Tenn.-based Tim Leffel, author of Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune, skipped London and Lisbon this summer, and instead, took his wife and daughter on a two-week trip to ...
Five Soon-to-Be White Hot Tourist Destinations
Venturing off the beaten path is adventure enough for some, but beating down the path itself is for a special breed. For these alpha tourists, the joy of travel is in getting there before the ...
Cruises
This is it. The year you finally get off the couch and take that long-awaited cruise.
To find out what the industry has new for this year, we caught up with Alan Wilson, editor of Cruise ...
Safe Iraq?
Iraqi officials are encouraging people to visit the country - saying potential travellers should not believe everything they see on the news.
The embassy claims most of the country is ...
Tourism of doom
Quito, Ecuador (eTN) - Dennis and Stacie Woods, a married couple from Seattle, choose their vacation destinations based on what they fear is fated to destruction.
This month it was a ...
2007 was...weird
(eTN) - 2007 was not kind to travelers. Flights were packed and delays legion. Gas prices soared. The dollar tanked. But at least travel news offered some levity.
Crowded flights sparked ...
