Travel News
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American Queen: Life on the Mississippi Again!
I've done a fair amount of European river cruising over the past few years -- well make that river cruise ship inaugurals since I still haven't been on a full river cruise. But last month I ventured down south to experience one of America's great river cruise experiences -- a half cruise on the American Queen, owned by American Queen Steamboat Company. Read More
By James Shillinglaw
May 20, 2013 11:45 PM -
Carnival Corporation Lowers Earnings Guidance For 2013 Second Half
Carnival Corporation & plc, which has been buffeted by incidents involving several Carnival Cruise Lines ships in the first six months of this year, Read More
By James Shillinglaw
May 20, 2013 6:35 PM -
Hyatt Workers Protest Pritzker’s Commerce Secretary Nomination
Hyatt workers launched protests against the nomination of Penny Pritzker as Commerce Secretary, just days before confirmations Read More
By Claudette Covey
May 20, 2013 6:32 PM -
ASTA Global Convention to Feature Top Executives, Keynoter, Innovations Focus
ASTA CEO Zane Kerby, in an interview on May 20 at ASTA headquarters in Alexandria, Va., said the newly revamped and renamed Read More
May 20, 2013 6:30 PM -
Thailand Names TravAlliancemedia’s Ruggia as “Friend of Thailand”
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) announced that 38 individuals, institutions, companies and organizations that have provided Read More
By James Shillinglaw
May 20, 2013 6:29 PM -
Karisma Hotels & Resorts to Enter Europe Market
Karisma Hotels & Resorts is moving beyond Mexico to enter the Europe market through a joint venture with U.K.-based TUI Travel, an international Read More
By Claudette Covey
May 20, 2013 6:24 PM -
Carnival Names Former Rear Admiral as VP-Nautical and Safety
Carnival Cruise Lines named Richard J. O’Hanlon, a former rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, to the newly created position of vice president-nautical Read More
By Theresa Norton Masek
May 20, 2013 6:17 PM -
Palace Resorts to Test Agent Group Lead Generation Program
Palace Resorts is launching a test pilot of a lead generating program for travel agents that will launch group leads of 10 to 25 rooms Read More
By Claudette Covey
May 20, 2013 6:04 PM -
Dreamliner 2.0: United Gets Boeing 787 Back into the Friendly Skies
United Airlines re-launched the Boeing 787 Dreamliner with commercial service from the airline's hub in Houston to Chicago O’Hare at 11:00 a.m. on May 20. The flight took off and landed without incident. Read More
By Gretchen Kelly
May 20, 2013 3:20 PM -
Rea Named Tourism Cares Director, Following Beckham
Tourism Cares, a tourism industry organization whose mission is to help preserve travel resources, named Mike Rea to be its new executive director, taking the role that will be vacated by Bruce Beckham since the organization’s beginning in 2000. Rea will take office July 8. Beckham announced his intention to retire in September 2012. Read More
By David Cogswell
May 20, 2013 11:13 AM
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