June 13, 2000
SAN DIEGO -- Customers of BookTravelDirect.com, a provider of on-line travel services, now can engage in a live chat with an agent when they need to change travel plans on the fly.
June 13, 2000 by Grant Flowers
PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- Wingate Inns International rolled out a frequent guest program, dubbed U1, aimed at the brand's technologically savvy customers.
June 12, 2000
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- They're like the personal ads, the ones that say "bright, young, single man seeks equally bright, young female for lunch and maybe candlelight dinner for two."
NEW YORK -- Jordan's King Abdullah II announced his country will host the Global Summit on Peace Through Tourism from Nov. 8 to 11 in Amman.
MADRID -- Amadeus said it cut a deal with BroadVision, a leading purveyor of e-commerce technology, to develop a new generation of e-commerce tools for travel Web sites.
ATLANTA -- Flightserv.com, an Internet travel company that books individual seats on private charter jets, announced that Todd Bottorff joined the firm as president and chief operating officer.
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- GetThere.com appointed Stephen Paul Etchells as managing director of the e-company's Europe operations.
United buys USAirways. American and Delta merge and add Northwest. TWA, America West and Continental decide to join the United/USAirways group. The surviving companies are called United and AmDelta.
June 10, 2000
HONOLULU -- The U.S. State Department is continuing to urge American travelers to steer clear of Fiji, where armed gunmen have held the country's government, including the tourism minister, hostage
June 10, 2000 by Mark Pestronk
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