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America Travel News
Sep 2007
17/09/2007 Jericho Fans Travel to Oakley
The town of Oakley in Northwest Kansas has visitors from all over the
world this weekend.
18/09/2007 Norfolk
Southern Whistle-Stop Train Delivers Safety Training to Emergency Responders
in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi
A special train will travel to Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi Sept.
17-21 to provide emergency preparedness training to first responders
as part of the 2007 Norfolk Southern TRANSCAER Whistle-Stop Tour
18/09/2007 Alaska Airlines' Picnic Packs now in Coach
In-flight food can be scarce these days, but Alaska Airlines seems set
on making it more available and healthier.
18/09/2007 Alaska
Airlines lost-luggage handler refuses to give up
Down in Seattle, in an Alaska Airlines warehouse lined with shelves
upon shelves, is the limbo land of luggage lost -- bags that, through
one screw-up or other, ended up with a travel itinerary different than
their owners'. Items left on planes wind up here too.
18/09/2007 Alaska Airlines
acquires tour company
Alaska Airlines is acquiring the assets, but not the employees, of an
Alaskan company that sells Hawaii tours, in anticipation of the airline's
new service to the islands beginning in December.
18/09/2007 Popular
bridge tour Oct. 6
Versatile art-historians Shannon Gackstatter and Teressa Swope-Hatfield
will lead the popular Historical Stone Bridges of Cowley County Tour.
18/09/2007 His Most
Essential Travel Item: A 6-Year-Old’s Enthusiasm
You know how people’s lives are often referred to as journeys?
Well, I’ve always thought that comparison was extremely apt. A
well-spent life, like an outstanding trip,...
18/09/2007 Seven
Travel Rules From a Brooding Teenager
You are in Scotland, a country that, as your parents do not seem to
understand...
18/09/2007 Commissoners
to consider new travel policy
The Tippecanoe County commissioners will consider adopting a new travel
policy for the county this morning.
18/09/2007 Sammy Kershaw
Auctioning Off Tour Buses
Sammy Kershaw may be running for lieutenant governor of Louisiana but
the Nashville Post reveals he still has bankruptcy woes to deal with
in Tennessee.
18/09/2007 Highway rest
areas named Missouri's top travel destination
Highway rest areas have been officially named Missouri's top travel
destination by the state's Department of Transportation.
19/09/2007 Americans
Consider, “Are Chinese Tourists the Future of Travel?”
For American destinations in search of new source markets, anticipation
about a visa agreement with China holds much promise.
19/09/2007 Allegiant
Announces CFO Departure
Allegiant Travel Company , today announced the resignation of Linda
A. Marvin as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
19/09/2007 Chicago
second city for travel times too
A national study released today confirms what commuters in the Chicago
area have known for a long time: Congestion is bad, and it's not getting
any better.
19/09/2007 Perry's
motives behind recent travel questioned by local representatives
With the state legislature on formal vacation, some political figures
say Gov. Rick Perry is marketing Texas across the nation and world just
in time for a vice presidential bid.
19/09/2007 America's
First Complimentary Luxury Travel Concierge Service ...
Forget about spending hours sifting through online travel sites. Drop
by, e-mail or call Quechee Lakes' new Concierge Center instead and speak
to a Vermont native who can give you all the information you'll need
for an easy, hassle-free getaway.
19/09/2007
Alabama's unofficial song becomes official tourism theme
The Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel has unveiled
the phrase "Sweet Home Alabama" as the brand line to market
the state as a tourism destination in 2008.
20/09/2007
Tourism Minister to travel to Florida
Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett is to travel to Florida
Thursday.
20/09/2007
Volunteer Travel: Slopping Sea Slime in Hawaii
We can think of a million reasons to go to Hawaii, not the least of
which is to hang ten.
20/09/2007
Travel and tourism declining
Toronto - The surging loonie is one more blow to the
tourism on this side of the border.
20/09/2007
Tourists Get High-Tech Foliage Reports
Leaf peepers headed to northern New England this fall
can keep up with computerized maps that predict where the colors will
be.
20/09/2007
Travel Tips: Thurmont offers history, plenty to do
It seems like more and more of my trips have been within the state of
Maryland. I am not complaining, merely mentioning the fact there are
plenty of places to visit in the Free State.
20/09/2007
State captures award for ‘Pure Michigan’ campaign
state’s efforts to increase the tourism industry’s role
in Michigan’s new economy showed some signs of progress last month
when its “Pure Michigan” campaign was recognized as the
best tourism campaign in the country.
21/09/2007
'I Love New York' offers travel discounts
New York state has signed three corporate partners to offer travel discounts
via air, rail and auto as part of an effort to revitalize the "I
Love New York" campaign.
21/09/2007 Increased travel, tourism fueling surge in hotel construction
Hundreds of new hotels are rising across the United States as the lodging
industry seeks to cash in on rising room rates and strong demand from
travelers.
21/09/2007 Ohio State
Park resorts offer special fall travel packages
Looking for a great place from which to launch your leaf-peeping tour?
Ohio State Park resorts are offering overnight packages through next
month to entice travelers to extend their fall foliage trips.
21/09/2007 WV Tourism Up,
But Not Enogh
Tourism is up in West Virginia, but it isn't growing as fast as it once
did.
21/09/2007 W.Va. tourist
trains offer leisurely way to see the countryside
Moments after it pulls out of the station, chugging into the dense cover
of the Monongahela National Forest, the Shay locomotive begins its climb.
21/09/2007 Tourism
program drives $30M spending boost
A Wisconsin Department of Tourism initiative that awarded less than
a million-and-a-half dollars to state nonprofit organizations over the
past year has resulted in $30 million in additional tourism spending
in the state, Gov. Jim Doyle said Wednesday.
24/09/2007 State
unveils new slogan:'Sweet Home Alabama'
Governor Riley and the Alabama Bureau of Tourism & Travel are hoping
the words "Sweet Home Alabama" will bring more to peoples’
minds than Lynyrd Skynyrd.
24/09/2007
‘Into the Wild’ a tourism marketing puzzle
As the film version of “Into the Wild” opens in movie theaters
this weekend, tourism officials and local leaders in Alaska face a challenge.
24/09/2007 Think
small: It's a better way to travel
The baggies the airport supplies are fine, the Ziplocs from the kitchen
drawer handy.
24/09/2007 Aloft Brings
The New Twist In Travel To Glendale, AZ
aloha! Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.? (NYSE:HOT) and
its much-anticipated new lifestyle brand, aloftsm hotels, announced
today that aloft is partnering with Gateway HI, LLC to open a hotel
in Glendale, Arizona.
24/09/2007 Get Off
your Bum With Adventure Travel
Of late, regular travel has become predictable and boring. With falling
airfares and the resulting increase of package tours becoming the most
common way of vacationing, traveling has become uninspiring and monotonous.
24/09/2007 Check out the
colors on the short hike to Long Lake
The trail to a long lake called Long Lake, but labeled Meridian Lake
on the map, is short.
24/09/2007 Renewables
draw a world of interest
With the advent of online travel sites, it seemed like travel agents
are going the way of the Dodo bird or black and white television.
24/09/2007 TripIt
Online Travel Organizer
If you're like many travelers these days, you plan your trip and make
reservations independently, often using several different web sites.
24/09/2007 Get to the gate
early or your travel plans may not fly
These days, when it comes to flying, Tom Dail says he feels like a teenager.
"Every time I go to the airport it seems I'm grounded," said
Tom, who arrived five minutes late at his gate in Detroit and was bumped
from the flight.
24/09/2007 Reno Travel
Enthusiast Starts Reno Vacation Blog
With the Reno Travel Blog readers can keep up with the latest Reno vacation
deals and Reno travel news...
24/09/2007 Jersey tries
a new direction on tourism
The New Jersey Turnpike has left the state with a reputation as the
home of billowing smokestacks and oil refineries.
24/09/2007 US travel agents
visit country
As Antigua and Barbuda gears up for the 2007 winter season, the Ministry
of Tourism will be playng host to three different groups of travel agents,
totalling approximately 200, from the United States this week.
25/09/2007 Empty seats
on fall flights mean lower ticket prices
Fall is a great time to take a vacation now that the airlines have put
the world on sale. With the kids back in school, fewer people are able
to travel...
25/09/2007 Virtual
travel on Second Life
Our tour started exotically enough, with castles and Mayan ruins and
jungle, a tree with steam coming out of it, and snow falling below moss-covered
towers.
25/09/2007 Contest
winners have 1 million reasons to travel
Clarence and Margaret Waterfall were given a million frequent flyer
miles after winning a nationwide competition sponsored by Delta Air
Lines.
25/09/2007 Travel
Destinations: Grandparents and grandkids set off adventures
Twenty-two years ago, Helena Kuenig was elated when she found out she
was going to become a grandmother.
25/09/2007
Florida Travel Enthusiast Starts Sunshine State Vacation Blog
With the Florida Travel Blog readers can keep up with the latest Florida
vacation deals and Florida travel news! Are you interested in topics
like the perfect Miami vacation...
25/09/2007 Hillary to
Travel to Israel
Although I have not seen anything that states outright that her trip
to Israel is officially part of her duties as a member of the Senate
Armed Services Committee...
25/09/2007
Travelocity spotlights state park lodge in Southern Illinois
It looks like a favorite hangout in this Southern Illinois town might
be getting a bit more crowded.
25/09/2007 New Book
on Latin America Turns Travel Writing Upside Down
In the age of Facebook, blogging and Google mania, opportunities abound
for aspiring travel writers. Until now, however, they've been mostly
limited to cyberspace...
25/09/2007 There's plenty to explore in Durant
Durant may be the Magnolia Capital of Oklahoma, but there is a lot more
to this community than just the beautiful flowering trees...
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