Leisure and Travel News

• 23-07-2008
  Savannah in Travel + Leisure top 10 city list for first time (AP via Yahoo! News)
  Savannah, Ga., has made it on to Travel + Leisure's list of top 10 cities in the U.S. and Canada for the first time, according to the results of a magazine reader survey.
• 23-07-2008
  Technology’s Next Wave: Transforming Teamwork and Travel? (New York Times)
  My article today talks about how more and more companies are rethinking the face-to-face meeting — when it makes productive sense to travel for that essential in-person experience and when that is no longer necessary, mainly because of advances in computing and telecommunications technology.
• 23-07-2008
  Marco Island entrepreneur unveils new tourist, travel information Web site (Naples Daily News)
  On the southernmost tip of Marco Island, Ron Oister is reaching out to the world. He’s the creative force behind aroundacity.com — a tourist and travel information Web site that covers 450 U.S. cities and all international countries. From his home office on the 21st floor of a luxury tower on Cape Marco, he’s overseen the development of more than 26,000 individual pages for cities, which include ...
• 23-07-2008
  Budget air travel in Mexico: End of an era? (Austin American-Statesman)
  Skyrocketing fuel prices are rocking the Mexican airline industry, leading to steep fare increases, the slashing of routes and what some analysts fear could be the end of low-cost air travel south of the border.
• 23-07-2008
  NBC banking on live Olympic events in prime-time TV (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
  NBC Universal has sold more than $900 million in advertising time for the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, booking nearly 90 percent of its inventory three weeks ahead of the opening ceremony, the company said on Monday.

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