Luxury Travel Making Slow Rebound
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49086870
Ovation Travel also said its bookings jumped 15 percent this year over last year, and clients are back to booking four- and five-star hotels for their corporate retreats and other gatherings, the article said. The uptick in luxury travel comes as the ...
Travel Channel Renews New Seasons of Popular Series
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2012/09/19/travel-channel-renews-new-seasons-of-popular-series-390500/20120919travel01/
CHEVYCHASE,MD (September 19, 2012) - Following the success of the premiere seasons of Travel Channel's original series "Baggage Battles," "Hotel Impossible," "Toy Hunter" and "Trip Flip," the Network has greenlit production for second seasons of its ...
Priceline raises stakes for travel deals on your mobile phone
http://www.freep.com/article/20120919/FEATURES07/120919039/Priceline-raises-stakes-for-travel-deals-on-your-mobile-phone
These sites compete with popular mobile travel apps Hotel Tonight. The reason for this rush of competition: many travelers who book hotels at the last minute use their phones to do so. Download apps from iTunes or Google Play. Tweet. Email; Print ...
Holiday Inn to give away diamonds in European hotels
http://travel.usatoday.com/hotels/post/2012/09/holiday-inn-60th-anniversary-diamonds-under-pillows/70000717/1
UK incentive travel and meetings publication ITCM says the diamonds will be left in hotel rooms in UK, Spain, Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Russia or Turkey. Lucky guests will find a cushioned, cut gem of more than one carat under their pillow.
Travel taxes: high, only partially avoidable
http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/sns-travel-ed-perkins-gbta-reports-that-discriminatory-travel-taxes-taxes-20120918,0,4122884.story
In a breakdown, GBTA reports that "discriminatory travel taxes" taxes specifically levied on restaurants, hotels, and rental cars top out at $22 a day in Portland, where there is no sales tax, and are lowest in Burbank, Calif., but $7 or less in a ...
Canadians Spending Five Per Cent More on Hotels Worldwide
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/18/4830391/canadians-spending-five-per-cent.html
Whether it's to find the perfect destination to match your travel interests or budget, or for enticing travel news and findings, the Hotels.com HPI has all that and more. *Prices are in Canadian dollars. About the HPI?. The HPI is a biannual report ...
Travel Deals: Westin Las Vegas puts Sin City on sale
http://www.thestar.com/travel/article/1259068--travel-deals-westin-las-vegas-puts-sin-city-on-sale
Transat Holidays: Eight-night Venice, air & hotel, $1,199 (+$478 taxes & fees) (Oct. 5). transatholidays.com. Hola Sun Holidays: Cayo Santa Maria, air & hotel, $438 (+$274 taxes & fees) (Oct. 12). holasunholidays.ca. Bel Air Travel: Paris, air & hotel ...
South-east Asia holiday deals put to the test
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/columnists/9553225/South-east-Asia-holiday-deals-put-to-the-test.html
(01306 744307; kuoni.co.uk). Kuoni's brochure is a precis of its website, which I found easy to navigate. It gives fairly detailed information on resorts and beaches but there are no hotel location maps. I phoned the dedicated ?Thailand Personal Travel ...
