February 10, 2000
NEW YORK -- The Dijon, France-based Continental Waterways barge fleet will grow to 12 vessels with the launching of two new barges.
WASHINGTON -- The International Airlines Travel Agent Network might let travel firms apply for endorsement and register their employees over its Web site later this year.
NEW YORK -- The Monaco Government Tourist Office will hold four breakfast seminars from April 11 to 14 for travel agents interested in the destination.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Preview Travel set March 7 as the date for a stockholders' meeting to vote on its merger with Sabre-owned Travelocity.com, and Travelocity offered the first detailed look at its
CHICAGO -- Richard Eastman, one of travel's technology pioneers, will lead a seminar on the evolution of the travel agent's role during the Travel Weekly annual conference, set here for May 3 to 5.
A couple of tales for Valentines.
NEW YORK -- CTS Viaggi, the leading student and youth travel company in Italy, opened an office in New York as part of a plan to expand into the North American market.
February 9, 2000
Travel Management Daily copy chief Maria Bunnewith sailed on a Danube River cruise operated by Encino, Calif.-based Uniworld. Her report follows.
The International Airlines Travel Agent Network lost 5% of its endorsed locations -- 1,892 in all -- last year due to the general shrinkage of the trade.
NEW YORK -- The entry into Austria's governing coalition of Joerg Haider's Freedom Party, a right-wing, anti-immigration group, evoked concern among some sellers of travel to Austria.