May 24, 2000
HONG KONG -- Rickshaws here are long gone, but perceptions take longer to change. Visitors, for example, might view Hong Kong as a city of skyscrapers and shopping.
NEW YORK -- Carlson Travel Network, the Minneapolis-based parent of franchising powerhouse Carlson Wagonlit, announced the launch of a brand that it billed as "the first limited-service travel agency
WASHINGTON -- Simon Weiser, owner of a small travel agency in Brooklyn, N.Y., believes that
PHILADELPHIA -- Rosenbluth Interactive is going where no travel agency has gone before by guaranteeing airline service booked on its Biztravel.com Web site. The Biztravel Guarantee pays $100 for flights
NEW YORK -- Business to Europe is booming this year, but agents are divided on whether the dollar's favorable exchange rate in euro countries such as France, Italy, Ireland and Germany is part of the
WASHINGTON -- ASTA's board of directors approved a plan to develop an industrywide identification system for travel agents who sell neither air nor cruises. ASTA has established a separate company,
FAIRFAX, Va. -- Travel agent arbiter William McGee ordered a Florida agency to surrender all of its ticket stock but rescinded the decision when ARC told him it made a mistake.
NAPLES, Fla. -- The Tourism Alliance of Collier County reinstated its Rich in Pleasures summer vacation promotion.
HONG KONG -- Almost 50,000 hotel rooms are expected to be available here by the end of this year.
WASHINGTON -- With airplane traffic nearly pushing the air traffic control system to the limit and the highways becoming increasingly congested, a panel of former transportation secretaries suggested