May 15, 2000
TOKYO -- Oakwood Worldwide, the Los Angeles-based corporate housing provider, opened the Oakwood Residence Akasaka, a serviced apartment property in Tokyo.
Today marks the start of the annual International Pow Wow sponsored by the Travel Industry Association of America. It's the largest gathering of overseas agents and tour operators that focus on the U.S.
DALLAS -- Sabre took an equity stake in EventSource.com, a service site for meeting planners, as part of a plan to move its corporate booking tool, Sabre BTS, into the meeting planning arena.
SINGAPORE -- Pacific Internet, a Singaporean Internet service provider, formed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in the travel-related businesses of Safe & Mansfield Travel Group, a
May 13, 2000
WASHINGTON -- Some 15 months after its takeover by private investors, SatoTravel is emerging from the shadow of its former airline owners and becoming a competitive force as a travel agency.
ORLANDO -- Start-up and new-entrant airlines are being touted as the solution for all sorts of airline competition woes, especially the need for lower fares at hub airports.
Overbuilding is a term we used to hear a lot in the context of the lodging business. Then we started hearing it a lot in the context of the cruise business. Now the hotels are at it again.
TORONTO -- ElderTreks, a soft-adventure travel company here dedicated to people ages 50 and over, is offering two off-the-beaten-track adventures in the Finnish Lapland and Iceland this summer.
SAN DIEGO -- Sterling Tours, a Britain specialist here, created a program geared to help retail agents shift more of their focus to leisure travel.
WASHINGTON -- The exhibition