News from USA TODAY: Readers: This is the third post from Orbitz Worldwide CEO Barney Harford, who is guest blogging this week. Here’s Harford, in his own words: Much of what we do behind the scenes at Orbitz centers on the way we handle data. Every day consumers execute millions of searches on our websites [...]
News from Toronto Star: Peter Mandel Special to the Star You can keep your inland towns that rise up over farms or crouch beside a busy river. Give me a city that turns its face to the sea. I like looking out at urban skylines from the deck of a ship. From here, at penthouse [...]
News from Aurora Beacon News: BY FRANCINE KNOWLES fknowles@suntimes.com May 8, 2012 10:12PM Passengers wait in line to go through a security checkpoint at Terminal 3 inside Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. People flying this year for summer vacations can expect to pay more. storyidforme: 30085854tmspicid: 10879601fileheaderid: 4974438 Average summer roundtripairfares from Chicago to: Dublin: $ [...]
News from USA TODAY: With our focus on the hotel business, we were particularly interested in how travel shoppers were looking for hotels this summer. Orbitz recently surveyed 750 Americans and we asked consumers to tell us how they choose their hotels – outside of cost – based on seven factors: amenities, family/friend advice, location, [...]
News from Radio & Television Business Report: By Dave Seyler on May, 7 2012 with Comments 0 Another sign of an improving economy is the fact that the vast majority of Americans are going to spend as much or more time out of town on vacation this year as they did last, according to a [...]
News from Fox News: The failure of Alabama’s lone cruise port has left the city of Mobile with a looming problem: How to pay for a more than $ 20 million passenger terminal that’s now used for dances and weddings rather than tourist embarkations. For years, parking charges and other fees paid by cruisers covered [...]
News from Economic Times: NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force (IAF) has incurred an expenditure of Rs 28.83 crore since 2009-12 in the form of air-travel of various dignitaries and an amount of Rs 11.80 crore remain outstanding, government told the Lok Sabha today. In written reply to the House, Defence Minister A K Antony said [...]
News from USA TODAY: NEW YORK – For the 16th installment of our weekly Makeover Monday series, USA TODAY Travel checked into Midtown’s Sheraton New York to see its nearly complete $ 160 million renovation. The 60-year-old hotel (811 7th Avenue at 53rd Street) now features stylish guest rooms and suites with black-out draperies; more [...]
News from Los Angeles Times: CUBA Tour gets personal Alabama-based International Expeditions has begun offering 10-day people-to-people tours of Cuba that start in June. The itinerary includes discussions with botanists at the Soledad Botanical Garden, a visit to the Zapata Wetlands in search of bee hummingbirds and talks with farmers during a trip to a [...]
News from Chicago Tribune: Spokane’s Red Lion Hotels is revamping its website in hopes of getting more people to book visits there rather than at other online travel sites. Company Executive Vice President Harry Sladich said the makeover will affect the main Redlion.com site plus 44 microsites for the chain’s individual hotels. The goal is [...]