ShoreTrips’ business is booming, so you’d think owners Julie and Barry Karp could relax a bit. The couple developed a niche – arranging land tours for Caribbean cruise ship travelers. While cruise vessels have been disgorging hordes of passengers into ports and onto buses and walking tours for decades, their operators faced increased competition from landlubbers when the Karps founded their firm …
Going on business trips One of the most exciting things about launching your career is being given the opportunity to attend a conference or seminar outside the office.
Bahrain Exhibition & Convention Authority (BECA) is reporting one of its most successful years ever, achieving all-time highs in indicators such as converting congress leads to business; occupancy; economic impact; the number of qualified Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) planners brought to Bahrain for familiarisation trips or site inspections and guest speaker …
Occasionally, Tom Jackson, owner of World Travel in Santa Ana, will run into a friend he hasn’t seen in a while.
Ports worry proposed change will hurt jobs, tourist revenue
Posted by in Business Travel News - (0 Comments)A Florida-based cruise line’s efforts to protect its lucrative Hawai’i business through a federal rule change is generating a wave of concern among port and business representatives who say it would harm jobs and tourist revenue.
Some media company executives are already adjusting their business plans as they try to predict what a severe economic downturn means for the viewers and advertisers.
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Posted by in Business Travel News - (0 Comments)JULIO OJEDA-ZAPATA I don’t often travel on business, so I’m paranoid about overlooking something important in my preparations.
Alex Kemeter knows whom to blame when it comes to the confusion the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative is causing at border crossings between the United States and Canada.
Rhonda Rompola works in Dallas. Mike Dement works in Greensboro. Their marriage is made in travel agent heaven. (Credit: “Story by Rob Daniels Staff Writer”)
Goshen College offers look at Mexico
