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This year's World Youth and Student Travel Conference (WYSTC), held in Barcelona September 20-23, played host to the inaugural Global Youth Travel Awards.
The awards formally recognize outstanding performers in several fields of youth travel and reward those members who contribute so much to the industry and community.
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Global business travel hotel bookings grew by 10.2 percent over prior year in August, up from July’s 5.8 percent increase, Pegasus Solutions reports.
Bookings for both the business and leisure markets showed continued resilience despite the US and European economic debt and credit crises that overshadowed the month.
Certain regional leisure markets did experience sensitivity to local economic pressures, however the overarching trend was solid growth, according to Mike Kistner, chief executive of Pegasus Solutions.
“While the hotel industry is strongly influenced by the economy, leisure and business travellers don’t take their marching orders from it,” said Kistner.
The 63 guest room Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites in El Dorado, Kansas is a three-story, interior corridor, prototype property that opened in September of 2007. The property has king bed guest rooms, double queen bed guest rooms and suites. Some suites have in-room jacuzzis and all rooms have an abundance of amenities. The hotel also has an indoor heated swimming pool, indoor hot tub, fitness facilities, meeting room and breakfast area. Visit TheHotelInventory.com to view the confidentiality agreement to receive more information. The hotel is listed with Brent Jaynes of Leisure Real Estate Advisors.
The 118 guest room Drury Inn & Suites is a Memphis, Tennessee hotel for sale. The property was built in 1994 and renovated in 2004. It is offered below replacement costs. Amenities include an indoor swimming pool and hot tub, 5-meeting rooms, fitness facilities and a breakfast area. The hotel is offered unencumbered by management or brand. Multiple re-branding opportunities exist.
The Government is coming under increasing pressure to slash air passenger duty for the whole of the UK after chancellor George Osborne reduced the tax on long-haul flights from Northern Ireland.
ABTA hailed the reduction as a "welcome first step" and a "clear indication that the Government is listening to the industry's concerns over the damaging effects of APD."
Continue reading "Tax slash brings hope for UK air passengers" »
"Travel creates experiences and impressions that the digital world will never be able to replace. Travel builds understanding and fosters mutual trust. We will only appreciate and defend what we have experienced first-hand. In travelling and thus experiencing foreign cultures, feeling, tasting and smelling all they have to offer, we lose our fear of the unknown and learn to appreciate it."
BOSTON – The owner of a small Central Massachusetts airport has sued the U.S. Secret Service for $676,000 for damage he says was caused by President Barack H. Obama’s security detail during a visit last year.
Robert Stetson, owner of the private Marlborough Airport, filed suit Tuesday in federal court in Worcester.
Stetson says in his suit that Secret Service vehicles caused severe damage to the runway and grass apron of the airport when the presidential helicopter landed there in April 2010.
Obama was in Massachusetts to inspect severe flooding in the area.
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