Travel agencies scrambled to get Lawrence residents out of Mexico over the weekend before Hurricane Emily hit the Yucatan Peninsula.
“They called on Friday and screamed to come home,” said Joan Myers, a travel consultant with Carlson Wagonlit Travel/Sunflower Travel Service. “Everybody’s home safe and sound.”
The worst damage on the Yucatan Peninsula was in Puerto Aventuras, where the storm’s eye came ashore some 60 miles south of the tourist resort of Cancun and in Tulum, a collection of thatched hut hotels along a secluded strip of beach that is popular with backpackers.
The storm also wreaked havoc with vacation schedules.
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Fifty travel agencies across the Taiwan Straits gathered in Fuzhou City of east China's Fujian Province on Monday to discuss cross-Straits tourism.
There is surging demand from mainland residents to tour the island of Taiwan.
The meeting, arranged by the Fujian Provincial Tourism Association (FPTA), attracted 29 travel agencies from Taiwan and 21 from Fujian.
It is the first time travel organizations from Fujian Province and Taiwan have met since the mainland gave green light to trips to Taiwan in May.
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The New York-based publication ranks corporate-owned travel agencies based on data gathered from Airlines Reporting Corp., including ticket transactions and sales activity.
The agencies then are ranked by the amount of overall activity and percentage of tickets purchased for domestic travel, among other factors.
Founded in 1985, Adelman Travel operates corporate travel management, vacations, and meetings and incentives divisions and has reservations centers in Milwaukee; Boston; Hartford and Ansonia, Conn.; and in Irvine, California.
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Tourism operator Transat A.T. Inc. has bought control of Travel Superstore Inc., a Hamilton company that operates 10 travel agencies and a travel Web site called tripcentral.ca.
The Montreal company said Tuesday it made the acquisition thrrough its wholly owned subsidiary, Consultour Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed.
Consultour operates travel agencies and franchises, with more than 200 sales outlets in Canada.
Transat A.T. (TSX:TRZ.B) owns a charter airline, travel agencies and tour companies in Canada and France. The company generated revenues of more than $2.2 billion in fiscal 2004 and employed more than 5,100 people at
A travel fair will present tour programs and information to ordinary citizens and those engaged in the travel industry both at home and abroad.
The Korea Tourism Association will hold the 18th Korea World Travel Fair (KOTFA 2005) June 2-5 at COEX in southern Seoul under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Seoul City, the Korea National Tourism Organization and Korean Air.
Fourteen local and municipal governments of Korea and about 350 travel agencies and organizations from 50 countries will participate in the fair.
They will provide information on tourist resources, such as natural scenery and regional cultures to some
Krung Thai Bank Card is making inroads into the travel-booking scene through 16 service branches that were opened primary for customers to settle bills.
KTC World officially kicked off its travel activities last week at its Soi 33 Sukhumvit Road branch where card members can now book an assortment of outbound tours including hotel and airline reservations.
With over one million card members and storefront space at prime shopping locations around the city, it seemed like a good idea to branch out into travel bookings too.
Travel comes under subsidiary company KTC World headed by high-profile travel executives from corporate, leisure and events
