Travel slump has an upside: great deals on hotel stays (The State)
Cash-strapped travelers may finally get a break on rising hotel prices this fall — courtesy of airline cutbacks and high gasoline prices. Airlines’ service cuts and rising fuel costs have damped travel demand to several popular resort destinations. That has spurred some hotels to offer plentiful deals and to temper rate increases to woo reluctant vacationers — in an about-face from recent years, ...
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Virtual world may render college road trips useless (Republican-American)
Visiting colleges no longer means loading the family in the car to travel across the country. A campus tour is now a computer click away.
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More than 2.7 million to travel over Labor Day (Los Angeles Daily News)
More than 2.7 million Southland residents will set out on Labor Day weekend trips starting today, a 1.4 percent drop from last year, and will travel shorter distances because of high fuel costs, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California.
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Pan Pacific Hotels and Resorts’ Triple Wins at the 15th Annual World Travel Awards 2008 (Hospitality Net)
Pan Pacific Hotels and Resorts scored a triple win at the 15th World Travel Awards when its hotels – Pan Pacific Singapore, Pan Pacific Kuala Lumpur International Airport and Pan Pacific Manila – won highly esteemed accolades for being among the best hotels in Asia.
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On TV: 8-30 (Muskogee Phoenix)
Auto racing 9 p.m., ESPN2 — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, Camping World RV Service 300, at Fontana, Calif. 11:30 p.m., ESPN2 — NHRA, qualifying for U.S. Nationals, at Indianapolis (delayed tape)
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As Fashion Weeks Kick Off TripAdvisor Kicks in With World's Hippest Hotels for the Fashion Forward (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
TripAdvisor®, the world's largest travel community, today announced the top 10 hip fashion hotels in the world, according to traveler popularity and TripAdvisor editors.
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AIG Travel Guard Offers Free Assistance to Passengers Stranded by Zoom Airlines (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
AIG Travel Guard is offering free emergency travel assistance to passengers stranded in both Canada and the United Kingdom due to the grounding of all Zoom Airlines flights. Passengers do not need to be AIG Travel Guard customers.
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George M. Egan, longtime Babylon resident (Babylon Beacon)
George M. Egan, a resident of Babylon for 54 years has traveled around the world since he retired 13 years ago, died July 16, 2008. He was 76. He took many cruises, traveling to China, Africa and Australia. "The only place he didn't go to was Bermuda," said his wife Eylene, who plans to travel to Bermuda this year in memory of her husband.
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LAX strike threatens Labor Day fliers (USA Today)
A strike by hundreds of airline service workers at Los Angeles International is expected to continue into a second day today, threatening to snarl Labor Day travel plans for thousands of fliers. Though media reports vary about the exact number...
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Michelin Praised for Military Service (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Citing superior tire quality and delivery service, the United States military's Defense Supply Center Columbus has recognized two divisions of Michelin North America with performance awards.
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