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"Online travel sites are steering customers back to offline travel agents" (eyefortravel.com)
eMarketer has indicated that US online leisure and unmanaged business travel sales (including airline, hotel, rental car, vacation package, intercity rail and cruise) will reach $105 billion this year, up 12 percent from 2007.
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VARIETY (The Hindu)
INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL: Biz in their backpacks They love travel, but off the packaged track… and together as a couple it led them to a business venture.. Both of them shared a passion for travel, but of the kind that doesn’t adhere to organised or package tours. In the early ...
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Are Tour Operators Equipped with the Resources to Overcome the Added Cost of Distributing Through Travel Agents? (eyefortravel.com)
Consumers have embraced the multiplication of vendors and channels for buying travel products. Their preferences for what they put in their shopping baskets have also evolved, too.
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Couple Fears Travel Company Isn't Legit (WSMV Nashville)
A Brentwood couple spent thousands of dollars for a vacation travel package, but said they can't reach the company that sold them the deal.
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US sends third Navy ship to Georgia, plans to roll out $1 billion aid package (Newsday)
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) _ A U.S. Navy ship loaded with humanitarian aid steamed through the Dardanelles on its way to Georgia on Wednesday, as the Bush administration prepared to roll out a $1 billion economic aid package for the ex-Soviet republic.
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Rally heads off the beaten track (The Budapest Sun)
Bored with the fully-planned, predictable package tours? Tried of the long, if convenient, driving on highways? Brave souls with courage and a car to match will attend the "Caucasian Rally" to travel untracked roads through various countries, including some war zones.
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Travel (The West Australian)
Escape Travel has a three night accommodation package for motorcycling fans for the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix on Phillip Island. Prices start from $171 a person twin share for thee nights accommodation at the four-star All Season Eco Resort in a Studio Spa Villa.
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Rice to travel to Libya (USA Today)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is set to travel to Libya this week. It is the first visit to the country by a U.S. secretary of state since 1953.
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Cheney heads for Tbilisi as US gives billion dollars to Georgia (AFP via Yahoo! News)
US Vice President Dick Cheney travels Thursday to Tbilisi for a meeting with Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili, described as a "political corpse" by Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev, after the United States announced a one billion dollar aid package for Georgia.
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US gives billion dollars to Georgia as Russia wins ally (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The United States on Wednesday announced a one billion dollar aid package for Georgia as Vice President Dick Cheney started a tour of ex-Soviet states by promising that Washington had a "deep" interest in the region's security.
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