Archive for July, 2008

Condé Nast Selects JOURNEYS International for Top Travel Specialist Awards

For the sixth year running, Joan Weber, Director and Co-Founder of JOURNEYS International, has won the Top Travel Specialist Award for Family Travel: International Adventure and Eco-travel. Joan, a former teacher in the United States and Nepal, has an extensive history in planning family travel. Since the time her children were toddlers, about 20 years [...]


Snow Much Family Fun In Canada - With Select Resorts

With Great Offers From Select Resorts To Humber Valley, Newfoundland
Western Newfoundland, Canada’s most easterly province, is a real haven for lovers of the great outdoors and, at only five and a half hours flight from the UK, it makes for an easily accessible and cost-effective family holiday destination. The luxurious Humber Valley Resort, nestled into [...]


Sheraton Grande Laguna Phuket invites its guests on an Epicurean Expedition

The love of cuisine, wine, indigenous cultures have inspired unforgettable moments and created memories that last a lifetime. The hotels and resorts of The Luxury Collection evoke similar emotions
and have created Epicurean Expeditions to unlock the world’s most enriching experiences.
Guests of Sheraton Grande Laguna, A Luxury Collection Resort, Phuket are invited to explore the heart [...]


Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Deploys Scala Digital Signage Network during Extensive Renovation Project

Scala, the leading provider of end-to-end connected signage software, today announced the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV has deployed a Scala InfoChannel® digital signage network as part of their extensive renovation project.
The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas, (not to be confused with the Hard Rock café chain) is [...]


Three Las Vegas Shopping Destinations Form Global Tourism Marketing Alliance

Fashion Show, The Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian and The Shoppes at The Palazzo
Join to Enhance Awareness & Visitation
General Growth Properties, Inc. (GGP) owners and managers of America’s Premier Shopping Places, an award-winning collection of tourism-oriented shopping centers located throughout the USA, recently announced the formation of its first regional marketing alliance in Las [...]


Cebu Pacific to move the entire domestic and international operations to NAIA Terminal 3

Cebu Pacific (CEB), the Philippines’ largest domestic carrier, will use the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA-3) for both domestic and international flights starting on August 1, 2008.
CEB started its domestic ATR operations at NAIA-3 last July 22, 2008.
Lance Gokongwei, CEB President and CEO, said, “NAIA-3’s opening is a welcome development for us especially [...]


Visa Study Shows Canada and Mexico are Top Destinations for Americans Traveling Abroad

The dollar’s decline hasn’t dampened enthusiasm for travel abroad among large numbers of Americans – but it has shortened the distance they are willing to travel, according to a new survey from Visa.
The survey, which polled only U.S. payment cardholders who had traveled outside the U.S. in the past three years, found that two out [...]