August 4, 1998
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The Airlines Reporting Corp. indicated that after the airlines cut commissions last September, quite a few travel agents started using ARC to process service fees charged to clients'
WASHINGTON -- In emergency bidding, a California travel agency was selected to take over the $7.4 million account of Hill Air Force Base in Utah after the incumbent, a Florida agency, abruptly stopped
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Collette Tours is working with a new U.K. coach operator, Wallace Arnold, which replaces its previous partner, Shearings Holidays.
WASHINGTON -- The House passed a transportation spending bill that includes $609 million for Amtrak, close to the $621 million the rail line said it needs to help reach its congressionally mandated goal
WASHINGTON -- Senators Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) and Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), co-chairs of the Senate Tourism Caucus, introduced a bill to fund the U.S. National Tourism Office.
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- WizCom International here said Adventure Vacations in Hunt Valley, Md., became the first tour operator to participate in Tour Access, a link between tour operators' CRSs and those
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. -- Agents can book groups on tours across the U.S. that combine cultural attractions and shopping at no added cost to the commissionable hotel rates, according to a shopping
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- The International Airlines Travel Agent Network's Ronald A. Santana Memorial Foundation awarded $5,000 in scholarships to six students or recent graduates, including four women
MINNEAPOLIS -- Industry veteran H.F. "Hank" Boubelik was named vice president of industry relations for TransGlobal Vacations, a charter wholesaler here.
WASHINGTON -- Travel and tourism issues are getting a higher priority in the White House -- at least that's what the Travel Business Roundtable hopes after learning that two White House aides are being