July 3, 2006
Secretary Mineta left permanent mark on DOT Michael Milligan WASHINGTON -- Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta will leave behind unfinished business when he steps down on July 7. But his resignation
July 3, 2006 by Mark Pestronk
Q: My agency often receives airline debit memos for tickets that were auto-priced by our GDS system. Auto-pricing occurs when we simply choose a fare displayed by the system for a certain itinerary. We
Travel Weeklys Hawaii E-letter: July 3, 2006 PRINCE RESORTS HAWAII is offering travel agents a $125-per-night rate for the month of September at Oahus Hawaii Prince Waikiki, the Maui Prince at Makena,
Travel Weeklys Home-based Agent E-letter: July 3, 2006 NEST, the Network of Entrepreneurs Selling Travel, is gearing up for its Home-Based Sensation National Conference in October. The four-day event
VAXs air-only booking engine attracts 10,000 agents Dennis Schaal M ore than 10,000 travel agents have registered to use VAX VacationAccess air-only booking engine, powered by G2 SwitchWorks. Trisept
Garmin Nuvi 350 Personal Travel Assistant. The Nuvi is the flavor of the month, if only because its text-to-speech audio feature indicates itinerary turns by speaking the street name instead of simply
June 30, 2006
An affiliate of the Blackstone Group won the Travelport auction, reaching a definitive agreement with Cendant to buy the travel distribution unit, including Orbitz and Galileo, for about $4.3 billion in
Tourism Cares distributes $70,000 in grants T ourism Cares, a travel industry-based nonprofit charitable organization, is distributing eight grants worth a total of $70,000 to other nonprofit
The National Business Travel Association, which has been seeking closer ties with government travel managers, has agreed to take over management of the National Travel Forum, beginning in 2008.
A 70-year-old South Beach Diva gets a face-lift David Cogswell T he Tides Hotel in Miamis South Beach, nicknamed The Diva of Ocean Drive, was purchased in January by the Kor Hotel Group, a Los