Planning Future Trips

When I travel I always take a map with me.  Before I leave on a trip I study the map carefully to get a feel for where I am heading.  In fact even when I am not activly planning a trip I study maps for future expeditions.
I have currently been studying two maps for future [...]

SWAT Spring Break 2008 — Rosarito Beach Mexico Featuring Three 6 Mafia, Ying Yang Twins and DJ AM

Summer Winter Action Tours (S.W.A.T.) is proud to announce Spring Break 2008 in Rosarito Beach Mexico. S.W.A.T is a student group travel tour operator in its 11th year of business with over 100,000 satisfied customers. Spring Break 2008 will take place in Rosarito Beach, Mexico and will feature entertainment from performers Three 6 Mafia, Ying [...]

Better Business Trips

A look at the latest products and services to help you run a better business.
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Rawson wants state employees to ride rails

State employees who travel between Albuquerque and Santa Fe each day on state business would be required to ride the Rail Runner commuter train under an amendment to the state budget introduced by Senate Minority Whip Lee Rawson, R-Las Cruces.
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Transatlantic travel by air to get a boost

If you’re among the lucky few who can afford to pay $7,000 or more for a round-trip business-class ticket between Philadelphia and London, life is about to get even better.
Read More at Philly.com…

OAG and FCm Announce Strategic Alliance to Launch New Intelligent Web-Based Travel Planning, Booking and Fulfilment …

OAG , the global flight information and data solutions company, and FCm Travel Solutions, a specialist in worldwide corporate travel and expense management, announced today they have formed a strategic alliance to deliver a ground-breaking one- stop travel planning and booking solution to revolutionize the way people arrange and manage business travel.
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Take the Family on Business: In Mexico City, Marquis Reforma’s ‘Family Business’ Package Turns the City Into a …

Taking the family on business trips is a trend that continues to grow, as parents increasingly view business travel as an opportunity to spend precious time with family and create lifelong memories.
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OAG and FCm form strategic alliance for web-based solution

OAG and FCm Travel Solutions have formed a strategic alliance “to deliver a ground-breaking one-stop travel planning and booking solution to revolutionize the way people arrange and manage business travel.”
Read More at eyefortravel.com…

Valley business briefs for Feb. 5

Business news from across the valley…
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Connecting business travelers on the road

TripIt is an online travel assistant that seamlessly organises trips including flight, hotel, rental car, train, restaurant reservations, and activities — even when booked through different online services and vendors.
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TripIt Simplifies Business Travel and Keeps Travelers Connected on the Road

TripIt has launched a new business travel service at http://business.tripit.com that helps business travelers, road warriors and travel arrangers simplify and organize their business trips.
Read More at Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance…

UPI NewsTrack Business

Analysts are watching Wall Street for signs of recovery the week after the U.S. Federal Reserve cut key interest rates.The rate cut, the second in eight days, reduced the rate banks use to loan each other money overnight to 3 percent.In late-morning trading on Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average slid 99.41 or 0.78 percent [...]

Air Charter Business

A new ride-sharing air charter business is set to begin service at Rapid City Regional Airport on Wednesday, Jan. 23.
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Real ID could mean real travel headaches

A May deadline is just one flash point in a political showdown between Homeland Security and states that oppose Real ID demands.
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WRO spent $79K on travel, per diem in ‘07

The Washington Representative’s Office spent nearly $80,000 on travel and per diem over the past year, it was learned on Friday.
Read More at Saipan Tribune…

Busway to speed Shore commuters from today

Many – but not all – North Shore commuters will be offered faster trips this morning when the country’s first buses-only highway opens for business.
Read More at The New Zealand Herald…

Coffeehouse Business Plan

The concept. Thanks primarily to Starbucks, within the past 20 years the coffeehouse has become a familiar feature of American life. Every day, millions of Americans stop for an espresso-based coffee drink.
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Red Tape Travels

Traveling for business in recent years has been tricky, to say the least. Now, even more far-reaching passport rules are in place, meaning if you do international business by land, sea and air or are making a leisure trip, you’re going to need more documentation.
Read More at The Tampa Tribune…

Catch a ride on the

A new ride-sharing air charter business is set to begin service at Rapid City Regional Airport on Wednesday, Jan. 23.
Read More at Rapid City Journal…

Business-trip costs soar on flight delays

Marilyn Moran-Townsend remembers when she could schedule a midday meeting in another city and be reasonably confident that a morning flight would get her there in time.
Read More at Fort Wayne Journal Gazette…

VIRGINIA: Gifts to legislators top $165,000; include trips, tickets

RICHMOND — State legislators flew to places as diverse as Algeria and Lithuania, hunted deer in Texas and watched the Washington Redskins at FedEx Field last year, all courtesy of lobbyists and the interests they represent.
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ADNEC and ADTA to promote Abu Dhabi as a world-class MICE destination

The promotional tour, which takes in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East, will highlight the emirate’s world-class business environment, and the ongoing developments at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Centre (ADNEC) Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Centre (ADNEC) and the surrounding AED 8 billion Capital Centre development.
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Gifts to Legislators Top $165,000; Include Trips, Tickets

State legislators flew to places as diverse as Algeria and Lithuania, hunted deer in Texas and watched the Washington Redskins at FedEx Field last year, all courtesy of lobbyists and the interests they represent.
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Catch a ride on the

A new ride-sharing air charter business is set to begin service at Rapid City Regional Airport on Wednesday, Jan. 23.
Read More at Rapid City Journal…

British Air Shuns Heathrow With U.S. Business Shuttle

Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — British Airways Plc will start business class-only services from London City Airport to New York, bypassing congestion at London Heathrow and easing journeys between the two cities’ financial districts.
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New requirements having little impact on border traffic

People from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border were still walking across the border to buy a carton of cigarettes, driving back from business appointments or making other trips as usual as the new identification requirements went into effect Thurs-day.
Read More at The Daily Dispatch…

West’s Travel Topped Other Smithsonian Directors’

The founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian was away from the office more days and spent more Smithsonian money traveling last year than other museum directors at the institution, a newly released review of Smithsonian travel found.
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Ex-city treasurer faces 328 years in fraud scheme

The city’s former treasurer and her assistant embezzled thousands of dollars for business trips, and now face lengthy

Business as usual

In a line of about 10 vehicles at the Free Trade Bridge in Los Indios, Eduardo Galan was surprised to hear that he needed documentation to prove his citizenship if he wanted to return to the United States.
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British Airways Net Gains as Premium Trips Offset Oil

Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — British Airways Plc, Europe’s third- biggest carrier, boosted nine-month profit 22 percent and said business travel on long-haul routes is holding up even as demand for shorter flights declines and fuel costs increase.
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