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American Airlines said Tuesday it’s expanding its inflight Internet service to the rest of its 767-200 fleet, or the 15 planes …
Beer, music and mountain scenery: That’s what you’ll find at the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, Sept. 12-14.
During the month-long celebration, each of the 16 wineries will host an event to celebrate harvest season.
Cruise lines including Norwegian, Royal Caribbean and Holland America are making numerous trips August-October.
The enormous video installation has been drawing a growing stream of visitors to the Comcast Center.
An airline trade group expects Labor Day travel to drop by 5.7% this year, as rising airfares and schedule cuts keep travelers …
The exhibition will include interactive displays, videos and recreations of rooms aboard the ship.
The magazine’s September issue has a list of the country’s 10 best science centers, with an emphasis on those catering to younger …
Soaring jet fuel bills are forcing more of the already endangered jumbo jets from U.S. domestic service.
Denver has 20,000 acres of parks and the bulk are spread through the mountains west of the city.
The Denver Art Museum is getting ready for conventioneers with a digital exhibit of political posters.
The Center for Birds of Prey may transport some younger visitors straight to the pages of a Harry Potter book.
The Mesker Park Zoo in southern Indiana has opened a new $13 million Amazon rain forest exhibit.
Myrtle Beach International has introduced an aggressive incentive program to generate more air service.
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 …
Ecotourism News:
Ecotourists scare away endangered wildlife . EVEN when they tiptoe discreetly through the undergrowth, nature lovers and ecotourists may be having …
Tourism Auckland secures funding for sustainable ventures. Tourism Auckland wins bid for Sustainable Tourism Advisers in Regions (STAR) funding …
PANAJI: With about 10 five-star hotels in the state toying with idea of having regular energy audits to promote “green tourism” in the state, the …
Ecotourism and sustainable tourism are meshing near the natural wonders of the Galapagos Islands as Canodros S.A., owner of the M/V Galapagos …
Efforts are being stepped up to promote tourism in provinces close to core tourism destinations. . . The goal is not only to promote new tourist …
DEL. ICIO.US By JIM THARPE. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. . Scientists have become increasingly convinced that huge gatherings of giant whale …
Pete Corradino’s business focuses on the environment.. . Guides won’t feed the alligators, no matter how hard you beg.. . Instead, Everglades Day …
Ecotourists scare away endangered wildlife . EVEN when they tiptoe discreetly through the undergrowth, nature lovers and ecotourists may be having …
Ecotourists scare away endangered wildlife . EVEN when they tiptoe discreetly through the undergrowth, nature lovers and ecotourists may be having …
The viewing tower pierced the rainforest canopy. Standing foursquare on its wobbly top deck, some 30 feet above the billowing florets, I felt as if …
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Actress Megan Fox is trying to be an ideal stepmother-to-be for fiance Brian Austen Green's son Kassius and says she even feels guilty when she has to travel for shootings.
The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) health ministry is working hard to develop the necessary infrastructure to boost the country's medical tourism sector.
New Delhi, Aug 20 : Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni and her South African counterpart Pallo Jordan recently signed the programme of cooperation in the fields of arts and culture.
ISTANBULTDN with wire dispacthes Merger talks between German charter airline Condor and TUIfly as well as budget Lufthansa unit Germanwings have stalled, sources close to the situation told Reuters on…
REUTERS You can prepare the hotel bed but you can't make the guest lie in it. Last year, management of the Red Hotel Beijing took over a drab Stalinist-era style hotel on the eastern side of Beij…
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In fact, the opposite will probably be true. Most airlines are dramatically reducing capacity in an attempt to cut sky-high fuel prices. They are retiring their biggest gas guzzlers and reducing fligh…
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According to a survey conducted to create a profile of the accomodation sector in Turkey, group and hotel chains own 61 percent of total bed capacity in the country. The survey shows that foreign grou…
The numbers of tourists visiting the UAE for medical procedures are set to soar, as the nation develops the infrastructure required for health tourism, the Ministry of Health has announced.
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Under the proposals, sex offenders could be banned from travelling abroad for up to five years and will have to tell police at an earlier stage of their plans to go overseas. The announcement com…
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Some places just feel good when you roll into them. Hokitika is one. It's small town enough to have character, but not small town enough to be Ronald Hugh Morrison gothic.
SYDNEY - The Best Western Agnes Water Beach Club, which is set to open in 2003, will be Australia's most impressive and technologically advanced, environmentally sensitive, fully self-sustainable reso…
The double-decker Routemaster bus, a phased-out London icon, is gaining a second life in a Japanese city that believes the red road giant fits right in. Families and tourists snapped pictures as they …
U.S. airlines want to delay implementation of a new rule forcing them to observe urine collections for employee drug tests, saying employers need time to hire and train more workers. Airlines need mor…
Tom Monahan, right, Wyndham Hotel Group senior vice president, international development, congratulates Toru Nakadate, Green Hospitality Management Co. LTD president and chief executive officer, in Lo…
Reiher will also take on the General Manager's role for the upcoming Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn Dead Sea properties. Reiher brings with him over 20 years experience in the hospitality industry in…
It hosts a unique selection of guestrooms and suites housed in 18 subtle clusters each with its own rooftop pool. Stylish décor and an informal ambience combine to deliver a residential experienc…
in 2008," he told a National Aviation Press Club lunch. "We are bracing for more situations of airlines collapsing," he said. "We are a fragile industry in a crisis." -By
NEW YORK, NY, August 13, 2008. Mr. Jean-Jacques Gauer, chairman of the executive committee of The Leading Hotels of the World, has announced that Paul M. McManus, president and chief executive officer…
AUGUST 13, 2008. Pacific Resort Aitutaki has been named as a Finalists in the 2008 HM Awards for Hotel & Accommodation Excellence, with winners due to be announced in Sydney on August 14. Pacif…
ONE recent afternoon, I spent about 90 minutes waiting by the security checkpoints near the Delta Air Lines counter at La Guardia Airport in New York. You can see a lot just by observing, as Yogi Berr…
Waitomo Caves Tourism Holdings has reported full year net profit up 7 per cent to $14.3 million, with a strong performance from its Australian motorhome operation. That was offset by a disappointing r…
Hoteliers often ask HeBS how they can monitor the Internet chatter surrounding their hotels and whether or not they should pay for services that offer this type of monitoring. What hotel review websit…
ITHACA, NY, August 14, 2008. Listening is an essential skill for managers, and not just because listening is a key way to gain information. Research has shown that effective listening is a key to exce…
More laptop cases for airport security With frustration mounting at airport security lines, something had to give. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has decided to give frequent travele…
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Tourism Holdings is reporting full year net profit up 7% to $14.3 million, with a strong performance from its Australian motorhome operation. That was offset by a disappointing result from vehicle …
CALGARY - Canada is attracting fewer visitors from the United States this year, but the usual culprit - high gasoline prices - is not the biggest reason, the president of the Hotel Association of Cana…
If you prefer to see your autumn color by land rather than sea, Globus tours offers a fall foliage trip by motorcoach that includes Quebec City and Montreal, Canada. Other itineraries stay south of th…
Cell phones, which traditionally operate as communication tools, are fast becoming a widely used interface for online information as well. You've probably seen people typing away on their complicated,…
Earlier this summer, when employees first learned of a Google plan to upgrade and dramatically raise the price of its day care program, they wept, according to an article in the New York Times. The pr…
Planners Also Impacted by Rising Travel, Hotel and Gas Rates and Meetings Going Green The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International's (HSMAI) Affordable Meetings(R) National and Event …
Poll violence cost dairy sector Sh19bn Despite the numerous Government delegations that have been flying out to market the country, it had been envisaged that the Brand Kenya Board, formed as a state …
A few years ago, it was trendy and "transparent" for CEOs to have their own blogs. But typically it didn't go this far–then again, Southwest Airlines chief Gary Kelly isn't your average CEO. Kelly
NEW ORLEANS - Carnival Cruise Lines will move the Carnival Triumph to New Orleans when the smaller Carnival Fantasy moves to Mobile, Ala., in 2009, officials announced Tuesday.
LONDON - The number of American tourists visiting Britain dropped by 120,000 in a year, British government figures showed, amid a general slowdown in the U.S. economy and a weaker dollar.
If you live on an isolated island and want to see the world, you're going to need to fly to get there. No one knows this better than Australians, who are considered some of the most well-traveled peop…
CHICAGO - Travelers booking their vacations on Orbitz.com now have the option to rent a private home or condominium for their trips rather than a hotel room, online travel agency Orbitz Worldwide Inc….
LHASA, TIBET - JUNE 21: Chinese policemen patrol around the Jokhang Temple prior to the Beijing Olympic Torch relay on June 21, 2008 in Lhasa, Tibet, China. Chinese authorities are keeping security ti…
U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari toured Burma's cyclone-struck Irrawaddy Delta Tuesday to observe recovery and reconstruction efforts.Gambari's five-day visit to Burma this week is his first since C…
NEW YORK - Some 600,000 passengers are expected to sail to Atlantic Canada this year, a 40 per cent increase over last year, according to the Atlantic Canada Tourism Partnership. In previous years,…
NEW DELHI: Close on the heels of clearing the levy of Rs 375 as user fee from passengers flying out of Hyderabad, the aviation ministry could now make India's biggest airports costlier for both air…
Nigeria qualified for the final of the soccer tournament at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday by defeating Belgium by four goals to one, 12 years after winning the gold medal at the Atlanta games.