Middle East business travellers increasingly prefer touch of leisure with hotel stay (AME Info)
Motion sickness Motion sickness may affect travelers at any time during their trip. In most cases, symptoms can be minimized with use of dimenhydrinate (50 to 100 mg every 4 to 6 hours) or meclizine (25 mg every 6 hours) beginning at least 1 hour before motion. The transdermal scopolamine patch (Transderm-Scop) has returned to the market and is well tolerated. All of these medications have anticholinergic side effects, and they should be prescribed cautiously, especially in the elderly. Some patients have reported relief with pressure-point bands (eg, Sea Bands) worn on the wrist; however, objective evidence of benefit is lacking.
Middle East business travellers increasingly prefer touch of leisure with hotel stay (AME Info)
Business travellers today are so mobile, so regularly, say hospitality executives, that they are increasingly seeking hotel properties which enable them to experience some element of leisure to help them maintain a harmonious balance in their lives.
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Online Travel Market Sees Flat Growth (Display & Design Ideas)
According to Travelmole.com., the online travel market has seen its first decline since Sept. 11, 2001. A recent study conducted by Forrester Research revealed that the number of U.S. leisure travel bookers fell 9 percent from 2005 to 2007. "What we're seeing is an early warning signal: fix the problem or else," said Henry Harteveldt, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research.
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Airlines join in fare increase (The Star Online)
DALLAS: American Airlines, Northwest Airlines Corp and US Airways Group Inc. joined competitors in raising most US round-trip fares as much as US$20 as jet-fuel prices approach record levels.
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Get a Deep Insight into the European Leisure Travel Industry (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LYON, France----Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the European tourism industry is available in its catalogue.
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Isle of Man Nominated for Travel Advertising Awards (Manxnet)
The Department of Tourism and Leisure is celebrating after being nominated for an award for two best poster adverts and best poster campaign in the Travel Advertising Awards 2007.
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Group RCI forms strategic alliance with LeisureLink (eyefortravel.com)
The agreement with LeisureLink will increase the online presence of Group RCI's global rental inventory to new channels including online travel agents such as Expedia, Travelocity, and Orbitz, which are all part of the LeisureLink distribution network.
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Sodexho named worldwide sector sustainability leader (Food Business Review)
Sodexho, a provider of food and facilities management services, has been selected as an index component for the 2007-2008 Dow Jones Sustainability indices for the World and Europe. In addition, Sodexho has been named, for the third year in a row, as the worldwide leader in its industry category, travel and leisure.
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Hotels as Global Explorers (New York Times)
Major hotel chains are aggressively planting the flags of their brands in cities and suburbs around the globe.
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Business Briefing (Sun-Sentinel)
The Fort Lauderdale area is the fifth-most popular destination nationwide for gay and lesbian travelers, surpassed only by much bigger cities: New York City; Las Vegas; San Francisco and the Los Angeles area, according to the latest annual Gay & Lesbian Tourism Survey released by gay travel specialists Community Marketing Inc. of San Francisco.
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Two more airlines, citing jet-fuel costs, raise fares (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
US Airways Group Inc. and American Airlines have joined competitors in raising most U.S. round-trip fares by as much as $20 as jet-fuel prices approach record levels.
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Middle East business travellers increasingly prefer touch of leisure with hotel stay (AME Info)
Safety precautions All travelers to foreign destinations should be aware of safety risks. Crime is rampant in many areas of the world, and travelers are often thought to be easy victims. General safety recommendations to give patients include:
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