November 10, 1999
Bermuda is stepping up its marketing efforts in the Midwest and on the West Coast to support new air service starting next spring to Hamilton from TWA and Delta, David Allen, Bermuda's minister of
The number of U.S. airline people here at the ASTA meeting in Strasbourg is so small you can almost count them. United, of course, is no longer welcome in the Society. I haven't seen anyone from Delta
The Institute of Certified Travel Agents and Travel Guard International introduced Selling Travel Insurance, a course designed to help agencies sell more travel insurance and improve profitability.
November 10, 1999 by Mark Pestronk
Q: My agency's independent contractors are resisting our efforts to implement new and higher service fees. Can we require them to adhere to our fee schedules? If so, why isn't this illegal price fixing
Thanks to the success of last year's Just a Drop appeal, the organizers of World Travel Market, which kicks off in London on Nov. 15, are again asking for the travel industry's help in financing
November 10, 1999 by Laura Del Rosso
LAS VEGAS -- Maupintour plans to offer consumer-direct bookings, said Ken Swanton, chief executive officer of Lowestfare.com, the escorted tour company's new owner.
FAIRFAX, Va. -- Travel agent arbiter William McGee ordered the following travel agencies to surrender any remaining ticket stock and plates to ARC:
MIAMI -- Preview Travel, a San Francisco-based Web travel agency, said it is expanding its hotel offerings by making Hotel Reservation Network's discount rates available to its members.
WASHINGTON -- Sunworld International Airlines, based in Fort Mitchell, Ky., said it will voluntarily withdraw from ARC.
While some of the agents I spoke to following ASTA's Monday general session felt that the elaborate entertainment segment left too little time to deal with substantive issues (more about that next