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New Cell Phone Audio Walking Tour Showcases Downtown Pittsburgh’s Transformation Into Dynamic Cultural District
Beautiful Buildings, Landmarks, and Streets Compel Visitors to Dial and Hear Stories. - June 28, 2009 - Guide by Cell
African Safari Club Tour Operator - Supports Kenyan Communities
African Safari Club, the Kent based tour and cruise operator has been praised by charity organisations working to improve education and health in the rural Kenyan communities. M.E.A.K – Medical and Educational Aid to Kenya- a UK based charity run by volunteers, said of African Safari... - June 28, 2009 - African Safari Club
HotelTravel.com Revolutionises On-line Hotel Bookings
Relief is on the way for recession weary travellers dreaming of a holiday break in 2009. HotelTravel.com’s new website is packed with unique promotions that offer consumers huge savings and great hotel deals in many of the world’s most popular travel destinations. - June 27, 2009 - HotelTravel.com
Get Answers to Visa Questions via Video Consultation
Getting a visa for Australia can be a long and tedious process for first-time applicants. Answers to visa inquiries can now easily be accessed via National Visas’ live webcam video consultation service. Clients can get in touch with a Registered Migration Agent over the internet and right... - June 27, 2009 - National Visas
Trax.com Hailed as Top Performer in International Flight Searches
Blogs Take Note of Powerful New Travel Meta-Search Engine - June 27, 2009 - Trax
Road Trip - Summertime Fun Awaits at Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa
Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa is heating up with value-driven packages just in time for summer. A short road trip from Chicago, Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa is an easy weekend destination, where a host of outdoor activities await eager travelers in this hidden Midwest gem. Grab the family and plan... - June 27, 2009 - Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa
A Savvy Hotelier's Tips for Prospering Through the Recession
A Savvy Hotelier's Secrets for Prospering in Recession and Maximizing Recovery Opportunities Look back over the multiple downturns the hospitality industry has experienced in the past 15 years and you’ll recognize two over-reaching patterns. First, recession is cyclical. Second, recession in... - June 27, 2009 - Hilton Short Hills
VisitAustralia Updates Information on Australia Tours
VisitAustralia, adds more information related to Australian outback, cities, Aussie food and wine, Australia beaches, islands and oceans, Travel destinations etc. - June 27, 2009 - visitaustralia.com
Luxury Travel Wants Local High End Tourism Market in Tough Times
Vietnam’s tourism authority is pinning high hopes on developing the local market as a niche in an effort to help the travel and hospitality industries maintain turnover in tough times and secure long-term sustainable development, said an official from VNAT in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The... - June 27, 2009 - Luxury Travel Co., Ltd
Largest Campground Dog Park Opens in Lothian, Maryland
According to surveys done with campers from across the USA, Duncan’s Dog Park is the biggest. - June 26, 2009 - duncans family campground
Guest Direct Achieves Goal of Half Million Rooms
Guest Direct is pleased to announce that it has reached its goal of providing Internet support for 500,000 hotel rooms in just six months. - June 26, 2009 - Customer Direct
Hi-Tech Travelers Exploring Chicago for Free
Hi-tech travelers can now explore Downtown Chicago for free with the latest Geogad Mobile Tour. Travelers can explore the top must-see destinations with their mobile phones, media players or even their Google Android smartphone using Geogad's free GPS-enable application. - June 26, 2009 - Geogad Inc
Virgin Atlantic Launch vTravelled: An Online Social Network (with Neo Optic Already on Board)
neo optic are proud to be able to today announce their relationship with Virgin Atlantic’s brand new vTravelled site. - June 25, 2009 - Neo Optic
Oistr.com Announces a New Way of Booking Hotels Online: Surf, Find What You Need Based on a Map, Not a List
Oistr.com, a product of Oggle Interactive Inc. has been approved by Expedia to provide online hotel bookings using an innovative visual map-based interface. - June 25, 2009 - Oggle Interactive Inc.
“Walt Disney World Secrets” iPhone App Rated 4 out of 5 Mice by Macworld
TimeStream Software’s popular “Walt Disney World Secrets” Notescast® App for the iPhone and iPod touch receives 4 out of 5 Mice rating from Macworld. Noted as “This Secrets Notescast is chock full of advice on where, when and how to experience the many hidden treasures scattered across the parks.” - June 25, 2009 - TimeStream Software
Luxury Travel Vietnam Has Just Launched Its Range of Luxury ‘Non-Packaged’ Holidays
Luxury Travel Vietnam Has Just Launched Its Range of Luxury ‘Non-Packaged’ Holidays. - June 25, 2009 - Luxury Travel Co., Ltd
Three All-American Celebrations Planned for Gulf Shores and Orange Beach
As Uncle Sam is adding yet another candle to his birthday cake, guests to the Alabama Gulf Coast will be able to take in not one but three fireworks shows during a value-packed vacation to this family-friendly destination. First to light up the sky will be the Perdido Beach Resort on Friday, July... - June 25, 2009 - Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau
Vietnam Luxury Tour Operator Develops MICE as Niche
Luxury travel Vietnam aims to be one of the most unique MICE companies providing customer best luxury MICE activities in South East Asia. - June 25, 2009 - Luxury Travel Co., Ltd
World-Class Wines Showcased at the South African Food & Wine Festival
Fifteen of the finest wines to come out of the world-renown wine regions of Stellenbosch, Paarl & Robertson Valley, S.A. will be showcased at the 4th annual South African Food & Wine Festival, July 10th, 11th & 12th 2009 at Grayhaven Winery, Gum Spring, Virginia. The festival is a celebration of the culture, food, wine and music of South Africa. Visitors will taste a stellar line-up of wines from Cape Point Vineyards, Mulderbosch and others as well as Grayhaven’s own award-winning wines. - June 24, 2009 - Grayhaven Winery
Luxury Link Announces World MasterCard® Partnership
World MasterCard® Cardholders Save $150 on LuxuryLink.com Purchases. - June 24, 2009 - Luxury Link LLC.
Lanzarote Guidebook - Free Summer Edition Out Now
Anyone planning a holiday in Lanzarote this summer can download a comprehensive 96 page guide to the island - entirely free of charge. - June 24, 2009 - Lanzarote Guidebook
Seapaths.com Invites Diving Enthusiasts to "Come Scuba Diving Off the Greek Islands - and We’ll Pick Up the Tab! Packages" for 2009 Spring and Summer Season
Seapaths.com has been providing high-quality all-inclusive yacht charters around the Greek islands since 1987. They offer themed excursion packages for couples, families and corporate trips. And from now until July 12, 2009, they’ll pick up the diving tab for parties booking an all-inclusive charter to the Greek island destination of their choice. - June 24, 2009 - Seapaths
Chinavisa 24 and ChinaMobile 24 Partner with DialtoSave.com
Last week the two companies joined forces with DialtoSave.com in an aggressive online campaign to promote each business through the other. - June 24, 2009 - Firstvisa 24
Espace-Maroc Launches “Pay What You Want” for Riads in Marrakech
Espace-Maroc launches this revolutionary formula for its Hotels and Riads in Marrakech. This promotion promises save money to international travellers on a budget and to promote tourism to Morocco during the current world economic recession. - June 24, 2009 - Espace-Maroc
Luxury Travel Company Invests in Its Employees in Tough Times
Luxury Travel Company Invests in their employees for developing the luxury tourism in Asia. There are several constraints in current tourism training, including inadequate and backward facilities and equipment, limited practical skills of teachers as well as poor collaboration between training... - June 23, 2009 - Luxury Travel Co., Ltd
Carol Garza-Thompson of Compass Rose Cruise Planners Offers Exclusive Royal Caribbean Mega Sale
Carol Garza-Thompson of Compass Rose Cruise Planners, is hosting an exclusive sale June 22 – 29, 2009 on all Royal Caribbean International bookings for itineraries sailing July 1 - December 31, 2009. - June 23, 2009 - Compass Rose Cruise Planners
The Vietnamese Tourism Product in the Luxury Segment Will be Promoted at Top Resa, Paris, France for the First Time
Luxury Travel Company and Vietnam National Administration of Tourism Promote the Vietnamese tourism product in the luxury segment at TOP RESA in Paris in September. - June 22, 2009 - Luxury Travel Co., Ltd
GTMC Net Releases White Label Online Hotel Booking Platform for Global Travel Agents
Solution will enable travel agents in any part of the world to offer online bookings in over 90,000 hotels worldwide. Designed to enable travel agents to capitalize on the boom in online travel booking, the white label product is absolutely free to use and can be set up in languages other than English. With over 20 travel agents already using the online solution, company expects at least 100 travel agents to sign by the end of 2009. - June 22, 2009 - GTMC Net Pte Ltd
A Unique and Dramatic New Memoir, Adopting Alesia: My Crusade for My Russian Daughter
When single 40-something Dee Thompson's choir went to Russia, she never thought she would meet a little girl who would become her daughter. An energetic 11 year old blonde waif captured her heart, and she returned home determined to find a way to become a mother. Despite a job layoff, an uncaring boyfriend, a lack of money, an unsympathetic agency, and a host of other problems. Dee persevered, and eventually brought home a Russian adolescent. This is the story of that tumultuous journey. - June 21, 2009 - Dee Thompson
Twenty Years and Three Generations of Family Makes a Castle Home for Thousands
Twenty years after Denver’s historic stone mansion, The Raymond House, was nearing demolition, the Peiker family’s three generations of innkeepers get ready to celebrate two decades of teas, dinners, weddings and gracious bed and breakfast lodging. It is a celebration of how unemployment and a dream to turn a derelict castle into an internationally recognized unique destination for travelers came to be. - June 21, 2009 - Castle Marne B&B
RateTiger Retains Integration Leadership with 400 Actual Connections
RateTiger leads with largest number of website integrations. - June 21, 2009 - eRevMax Inc.
Just Added to Blues Traveler Concert
Lead singer of Kenny Wayne's Shephard's band Noah Hunt will take the stage with the opening act for Blues Traveler Concert, Scotty Bratcher on June 27, 2009 at JD Legends Entertainment Complex. - June 20, 2009 - Samaan Ventures, Inc
Barceló Hotels and Resorts Appoints Deyna Molina as Sales Manager, Southeast U.S.
Leading hotelier Barceló Hotels & Resorts announces the appointment of Deyna Molina to the position of sales manager for the southeastern region of the United States. Molina joins Barceló Hotels & Resorts from Automatic Data Processing (ADP) in Miami, Florida, where she served... - June 20, 2009 - Barcelo Hotels & Resorts
New Website Launches to Help Reduce Fatalities at the Running of the Bulls in Spain
Technology Joins Tradition: Spanish media group launches the first website in English to facilitate multimedia communication (utilizing social networks like Facebook and Twitter) between experienced bull runners and novices about running with the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. - June 20, 2009 - BullRunning.com
Flamingos Who Won’t Think Pink
Two baby flamingos are causing zookeepers problems at ZSL London Zoo…because they don’t like the colour pink. - June 20, 2009 - ZSL London Zoo
STA Travel to Donate $7 Per Online Order to Charity, Match All Donations
STA Travel - a global travel specialist with 30 years experience helping students, teachers and young professionals travel the world – today announced that for every order placed on statravel.com on Monday, June 22, 2009, $7 will be donated to support a project providing children in Peru with... - June 20, 2009 - STA Travel
Sheraton Grande Laguna Welcomes Top Travel Consultants in Mega Thailand Trip
Sheraton Grande Laguna, a Luxury Collection Resort, Phuket provided a warm welcome to top sellers from The Hayes & Jarvis and Thomson Worldwide on Monday 8th June 2009 - June 20, 2009 - Sheraton Grande Laguna Phuket
Arizona High School Student Wins Travel Photo Contest
Holly Vins, a recent graduate of Mountain View High School was named the winner of Explorica Educational Travel's spring Student Photo Contest. Vins was awarded the grand prize, a $300 gift card to Amazon.com, for her adventurous landscape shot atop a cliff at Machu Picchu in Peru. “It... - June 19, 2009 - Explorica, Inc.
Mississippi Historical Markers Launched at StoppingPoints.com
StoppingPoints.com has released a new section based upon the historical markers of Mississippi. The Mississippi section includes about 700 historic sites and markers, identified, mapped, and further mashed-up with additional unique data. - June 19, 2009 - StoppingPoints.com
Luxury Link and Saks Fifth Avenue - It’s in the Bag
Customers purchase $75 in beauty products and receive $100 off their next purchase on LuxuryLink.com. - June 19, 2009 - Luxury Link LLC.
Nikko Hotels Summer Deals Offer Affordable Escape
To help ease summer travelers through the recession, Nikko Hotels announces summer packages at five locations: Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bali, San Francisco and Fujairah. Guests can vacation at these destinations in luxury accommodations, without digging too deeply into their pockets. Below are the... - June 19, 2009 - JAL Hotels Co., Ltd.
EyeforTravel Positions Itself as the Beating Heart of Mobile in the Travel and Tourism Industry
EyeforTravel Research releases the Second volume of its Mobile Technology in travel report series as part of the Travel School of Mobile Educational Initiative. This free resource is focused on assisting travel and tourism to understand the potential impact of mobile on the travel buying cycle and the various technologies and solutions that are available to the industry. - June 19, 2009 - EyeforTravel Research
ActiveTravel Asia Promotes Trekking Tours in Mai Chau Area Northwest of Vietnam
Mai Chau is the heart of a beautiful valley that is a world away from the hustle of Hanoi. The modern village is an unappealing sprawl, but as travelers emerge on the rice fields and rural living is transformed into a real paradise. It’s a stunning area, and the most people here are ethnic White Thai, distantly related to tribes in Thailand, Laos and China. - June 19, 2009 - Active Travel Asia
Carlsbad Surfboard Rack Mfg. Company Expands Market with Launch of New Stand Up Paddle Board (SUP) Rack Design – Sales Strengthen
TBONERACKS™, an innovator in sports-equipment storage, finds a niche market in the stand up paddle board (SUP) craze with the introduction of its new ceiling-mounted rack designed to store stand up paddle boards, surfboards, longboards, kayaks and more. The market resounds positively to new design and sales boom. - June 18, 2009 - TBONERACKS
"Shelltone Music with the Whales" Summer Solstice Debut Onboard with S. F. Bay Whale Watching, San Francisco, This Sunday
S.F. Bay Whale Watching in collaboration with the international Shelltone Whale Project, is providing a unique Summer Soltice experience this Sunday, June 21. Pierre Lavagne and his Shelltone will perform "whale music" amongst the Humpback Whales in the Gulf of the Farallones. - June 18, 2009 - S. F. Bay Whale Watching
ActiveTravel Asia Promotes Unique Set-Departure Trekking Tours in Northern Vietnam Named "Conquer Fansipan-Cat Cat Route"
With 6-day trekking tour to conquer Mount Fansipan, the travelers will have challenging experience and victorious feelings at the top of Indochina roof when travelers join in Conquer Fansipan - Cat Cat Route tour in Northern Vietnam. - June 18, 2009 - Active Travel Asia
Tailwind Tours Launches Operations
Company offers personalized road and mountain bike trips - June 18, 2009 - Tailwind Tours
Eileen Tener, ACC of Cruise Planners Offers Exclusive Royal Caribbean Mega Sale
Eileen Tener of Cruise Planners is hosting an exclusive sale June 22 – 29, 2009 on all Royal Caribbean International bookings for itineraries sailing July 1 - December 31, 2009. - June 18, 2009 - Cruise And Vacation Paradise (a Cruise Planners/American Express franchise), Eileen Tener
Trax.com Trivia Game Shows Travelers Better Options
Game shines light on the liberation of the online travel industry. - June 18, 2009 - Trax
Legacy Hotels and Resorts Announces Further Hotels to Its Chain
An expanding UK chain has added two further hotels to its portfolio. Legacy Hotels and Resorts has announced it is to operate and manage The Legacy Royal Hotel Cardiff in Cardiff and The Wyck Hill House Hotel and Spa in Gloucestershire. The group now has 11 hotels within its control across the UK... - June 18, 2009 - Legacy Hotels