|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Big oil on East Coast
Canadian oil explorer Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd says it believes it has found at least 12.6 billion barrels of oil on New Zealand's East Coast. The company said in Vancouver today that AJM Petro...
MGM Mirage employees to miss bonus
By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-JournalMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Oct. 21--MGM Mirage told its workers Monday that it was eliminating this year's cash bonus program, which is based on achieving...
Bad times can be the best times to travel
Hong Kong for $1,542 per person, double occupancy (with taxes and fees). Five nights, including hotel and round-trip air from Los Angeles. From Pleasant Holidays.In the next few months, the tra...
Pilot in deadly crash warned jet was out of runway - Washington Post
Investigators look over the debris left by the Learjet that was carrying former Blink 182, drummer, Travis Barker, and Adam Goldstein, also know as DJ-AM, on the outskirts of the Columbia Metropolitan Airport, in this Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008 file ...
Tourism industry urged to employ Saudi women
By Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Nov. 12--RIYADH -- Prince Sultan bin Salman, secretary general of the General Commission for Tourism and Antiquiti...
Germany Says Full-Body Airport Scanner
Germany will not participate in EU proposals for airports to use full-body scanner security checks, which have raised privacy issues, its interior ministry said. "I can tell you in all clarity that w...
Delta Air Lines To Add 15 International Routes
Delta Air Lines said on Wednesday it will add 15 new international routes as it seeks to protect itself from a slowing US economy. Delta said it will introduce the new routes next summer between the ...
Restaurant Manager Loris Lucchini Wins Hotel Restaurant Manager Of The Year 'Cat..
The Caterer & Hotelkeeper has named Loris Lucchini of The Chesterfield Mayfair Hotel, London, Hotel Restaurant Manager of the Year.
Saudi airlines say they are ready for Haj challenge
The pledge was made at the annual meeting of BARSA (the Board of Airline Representatives in Saudi Arabia) held in Jeddah on Sunday to discuss preparations for the upcoming pilgrimage.More than 230 pil...
Pride Hotels plans Rs.7.5-bn expansion
Ahmedabad, Oct 27 : Leading hotel chain Pride Group of Hotels will invest Rs.7.5 billion to expand its operations in India, a top official has said.
14 Iranian companies participate in London
Tourism Some 14 private Iranian companies are participating in the World Travel Market exhibition, held annually in London. The four-day exhibition, which opened at the Excel Center on Monday, provide...
Oklahoma tribes help dedicate American Indian museum complex
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) An American Indian chief conducted an ancient tribal ceremony to bless the first building to be completed at the site of the American Indian Museum and Cultural Center.
Registration for 2009 NRAH-MS and IWSB Event Now Open
CHICAGO, IL, November 3, 2008. The National Restaurant Association today announced that registration for news media and exhibitors is now open for its 2009 Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show (NRAH-MS) and I...
Auditor slams Mary Easley
Comment on this story RALEIGH - State Auditor Les Merritt said this morning that trips to France, Russia and Estonia by First Lady Mary Easley and others included "unreasonable and excessive expense...
Travel Still Hot Despite Economic Woes
Jetsetters Are Finding That While Airline Costs Are on the Rise, There Are Savings on Other Travel Products and Services That Allow Them to Keep Traveling
Trailer storage costs mount - Baton Rouge Advocate
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is paying more than $2 million a year to lease privately owned land in Louisiana to store thousands of travel trailers, most of which are expected to be sold for scrap. The trailers to be scrapped are small ...
School board to consider travel policy for its own members - Beaufort Gazette
The Beaufort County School Board plans to vote today on a written travel policy that clarifies when members are eligible for hotel and meal allowances. In the past, board members have not followed a written travel policy. Requests for hotel stays ...
Philippine Airlines Selects IBM System Storage to Support Exponential Growth
Posted on: Thursday, 13 November 2008, 09:00 CST IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that Philippine Airlines (PAL), the country's flagship carrier and Asia's first commercial airline, will upgrade and conso...
PNC’s earnings are down, but positive
’s third quarter 2008 earnings wouldn’t beat its performance a year ago, and they were right. Pittsburgh’s largest bank was off 39 percent. On Oct. 16, PNC reported net income of $...
Alaska paid for Palin daughters to travel - Boston Globe
ANCHORAGE - Governor Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and she later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business. The charges included costs ...
Strike two for Page Mill hotel
By Will Oremus, Palo Alto Daily News, Calif.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Oct. 17--A developer's proposal to build a luxury hotel along the high-tech hotbed that is Palo Alto's Page Mill Road isn't ...
Paris and Amsterdam Airports to Increase Cooperation
The largest airports in the Netherlands and France -- Amsterdam's Schipol and Paris' Charles de Gaulle, Orly and Le Bourget -- on Tuesday announced a cooperation plan that we see ties further deepen b...
FareCompare.com and ITA Software Ink Deal Taking Air Travel Shopping ... - Eart..
LOS ANGELES - (Business Wire) FareCompare, a popular airfare comparison shopping site, has partnered with ITA Software, a proven B2B technology partner for airline suppliers and travel intermediaries, to enhance its robust airfare search and to ...
Milwaukee's 'corpse flower' recovers -- and reeks
(AP)
AP - For a while it was playing dead. Now Milwaukee's infamous "corpse flower" just smells like death.
The new Harvest Restaurant/Bar focuses on locally grown and produced ingredients..
By Denise Neil, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Nov. 6--Before, it was a typical hotel steak house, with leather booths and dim lighting. But after an overhaul, the Hyatt has an...
Who hit whom Airlines differ over causes of mid-air contact
The two airlines involved in a mid-air collision over a northern Labrador community this week are giving conflicting accounts of what happened. Two Twin Otter planes — owned by Innu Mikun Airlines ...
Skeptical innkeepers await word on whether their ghosts are for real
By Steve Snyder, Lebanon Daily News, Pa.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Oct. 31--MT. HOPE -- Terri Brown and her husband have owned the 18th-century Farmers Hope Inn for five years. The ghosts arrived...
Stocks, Bonds, Currency Falling Simultaneously
By Kim Jae-kyoung Staff Reporter The local financial market is undergoing a simultaneous fall in equities, bonds and currency, in what analysts dub the triple weakness, further constraining the fa...
US extends visa free travel to new states
BRUSSELS: Citizens from six European countries will be able to travel to the United States without visas from next week and people from other EU nations could join them this year, US officials said...
Committee to search for new tourism chief
By Beth Pleming, The Mountaineer, Waynesville, N.C.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Nov. 12--The search continues for an executive director to take the helm of the county's tourism operations and manag...
|
|
|
|
