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What To See, Where To Eat
Calling all foodies. Here's a new way to get recommendations for where to eat when you're playing tourist. A new product called Mappetite combines a guidebook to basic landmarks with a restaurant guide, in a simple, lightweight fold-out map format. The...Tags: United Nations, Whitney Museum, Tourism and Leisure, Clubs and Associations
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Travel companies disguise price hikes as taxes
As every good tourist knows, when it comes to the cost of travel, there's the price and then there's the price. No one really believes that that flight to Europe will cost $299, regardless of what the ad says, or that a hotel stay will be $99, or a car...Tags: Washington Post Company, Vehicles, Passenger Cars, Cruises, Consumers
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Disney cruises are pure magic, even when your day isn't
Special to the Sun SentinelWe tried to have a bad time on our latest Disney Magic cruise. Really, we did. Normally low-risk, uber-planning vacationers, we stacked the deck against ourselves with a series of missteps from the second we left the house. That all-important suitcase...Tags: Dance, Goofy, Family, Vacations, Personal Service
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American lines take Europe by storm
San Francisco ChronicleIf your plan is to bypass the mighty euro by cruising Europe on a North American ship next year (and paying in dollars), you better hurry before everyone else snaps up the 63,000 beds. The six large cruise lines that sail predominantly in North America...Tags: Festive Event, Cruises, Tourism and Leisure, Imperial and Royal Matters
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As drives go, this nearby beauty is the Rock
Special to the Chicago TribuneIt always surprises me how quickly we can shed our city. We'd not yet driven an hour outside of Chicago's North Side when cornfields had replaced clogged streets, daydreaming replaced road rage, vast expanses of nothingness (or very-littleness) replaced...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Road Transportation, Ronald Reagan, Vehicles, Deere and Company
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Boatload of questions about tipping, seating, excursions
Los Angeles TimesCan you cruise if you're pregnant? Many cruise lines don't want you on board if you are or will be 24 weeks into your pregnancy during the cruise. They're concerned about pre-term labor. Although ships are equipped to deal with medical emergencies, an...Tags: Ocean Tides, Emergency Planning, Credit and Debt, Diseases, Cruises
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Company News - September 4, 2008
UNIGLOBE WINGS ACQUIRES MITTL TRAVEL Mittl Travel Agency of Allentown, owned by Thomas F. Mittl and Jennifer L. Smith, has agreed to be acquired by Uniglobe Wings Travel of Blue Bell, Montgomery County. Mittl Travel will continue operations at its...Tags: Allentown
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Critics lead push for crackdown on cruise ship industry
McClatchy NewspapersLaurie Dishman, a 37-year-old food-services manager from Sacramento, said it was time to face her fears head-on, so she took a therapeutic trip to the Port of Miami last weekend. It was the first time she'd gone near big ships since 2006, when she was...Tags: Employees, Sexual Assault, John Kerry, National Government, Government
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Deaths elsewhere
DAVE FREEMAN, 47 Author of adventure-seeking travel guide Dave Freeman, an advertising agency executive who co-wrote 100 Things to Do Before You Die, an adventure-seeking and often unconventional travel guide that personified the way he lived, has died.... -
2 cities vie for murder tourism
Associated PressTwo Massachusetts businesses are battling over the macabre legacy of a former Sunday school teacher who was accused in the hatchet deaths of her wealthy father and stepmother more than 110 years ago. The owner of the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast in...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Robert Correia, Murder
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Bhutan's tourism policy keeps out the riffraff
McClatchy-TribuneBhutan is looking for a few good tourists - and put the emphasis on "a few," please. The Buddhist nation of 680,000 residents squeezed between India and China in the high Himalayas had no television until 1999. Smaller than West Virginia, it has just one...Tags: Economy, Waterbury, United Nations, Tourism and Leisure, Expedia Incorporated
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Va. tourism guide wins award
Virginia's tourism guide is being touted as the nation's best. The Virginia Tourism Corporation says the 2008 travel guide received a Travel Industry Association award. The awards was announced at the group's annual conference on Tuesday. The guide is...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Clubs and Associations
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