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High-Season Numbers Point to Promising Year for Tourism and Real Estate in Mexico
As the high season for travel to Mexico kicked off on Thanksgiving weekend, early indicators are that both tourism and the second-home market remain strong despite recent setbacks in the U.S. economy. ...more

London and Fort Lauderdale Top Lists of Spring Break Destinations
Online student travel leader StudentUniverse.com today released its lists of the top domestic and international Spring Break 2008 destinations for US college students. ...more

Caribbean is Top Holiday Escape According to TripAdvisor Survey
There's No Place Like Hotel for Holiday Travelers ...more

Advertising That Works - Australia Hotel Performance Up
Australia's controversial marketing campaign, launched in February 2006, showing typical Australian scenes accompanied by the blunt tag line: 'So Where the Bloody Hell Are you?' has been very successful. ...more

Cornell Study Explains Electronic Explosion in Packaged Travel
Changes All Along the Line: How the Internet Is Transforming Packaged-Travel Distribution ...more

Travel Demand Set to Reach New Peaks
Passenger numbers in January look set to break new growth records across all regions, for a variety of different factors and with many of the usual downsides. The latest consistent international and domestic passenger data is from ACI. It relates to the largest airports in October and shows total passenger numbers rising by 6.2% in the month and international passengers by 8.3%. ...more

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Airlines

American Airlines and American Eagle Launch 16 New Routes This Week
American Airlines and its regional partner, American Eagle, today began launching 16 new routes, both domestic and international. All are part of announced schedule changes that take effect today, Dec. 13. Some of the new routes that operate less-than-daily frequencies will operate their first flights later this week. ...more

Frontier Celebrates Birth of New Addition to the Airline
It's a baby lynx kitten, and a wolf puppy, and a mountain lion cub. These are some of the animals on the tails of the new Lynx Aviation aircraft, which after months of training, proving runs and a rigorous certifications process, took to the skies on Friday, Dec. 7, with an inaugural flight to Billings, Mont. ...more

Airline Passengers Will Send Over 60 Million Text Messages in 2010, According to Freesky Research
In flight messaging tools will soon be an essential component of serving business travelers, and airlines will ultimately be forced to improve cabin data services in order to retain business customers, according to a soon-to-be-released study from Freesky Research. ...more

Alaska Airlines Inaugurates Anchorage-Honolulu Service
Alaska Airlines today inaugurated nonstop, year-round service between Anchorage, Alaska, and Honolulu. The airline launched nonstop Seattle-Honolulu service Oct. 12 and nonstop Seattle-Lihue, Hawaii, service Oct. 28. ...more

Hawaiian Airlines Reports November Traffic Statistics
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (AMEX:HA) , today announced its systemwide traffic statistics for the month of November and year-to-date (see chart below). In November, Hawaiian served 592,441 passengers, while recording Revenue Passengers Miles (RPMs) of 681,133,000, Available Seat Miles (ASMs) of 768,024,000, and Load Factor (LF) of 88.7 percent. ...more

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Appointments

American Airlines Names Kurt Stache Vice President and General Sales Manager
American Airlines today named Kurt Stache as its Vice President and General Sales Manager. Stache will be responsible for all of American's sales activities worldwide with sales organizations throughout American's network reporting to him. ...more

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Development

Stockholm Waterfront To Become One Of The World'S Leading Meeting Venues
Stockholm Waterfront has been launched with great expectations - a congress centre with facilities for up to 3,000 people and a four-star hotel with 418 rooms right in the very heart of Stockholm. ...more

Apollo Management L.P. Acquires Regent Seven Seas Cruises
Regent Seven Seas and Oceania Cruises to Remain Independent Brands ...more

TUI AG and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Announce Joint Venture to Serve German Cruise Market
The new company, TUI Cruises, will begin service with one ship, in early 2009, and grow quickly with two newbuilds planned for 2011 and 2012. ...more

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Internet

Social-networking and travel blog site TravBuddy.com partners with HotelsCombined.com for hotels
TravBuddy successfully integrates a hotel search engine using HotelsCombined's API ...more

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Other

2007: The Best Hotel Gyms in the U.S
AthleticMindedTraveler.com Announces Its Annual Best Hotel Gym List ...more

NYC Tourism Industry Applauds Decision to Open U.S. to Chinese Tourists
Historic Agreement Means Significant Growth in Chinese Visitors to NYC, Follows Opening of New York City's First Representative Office in Shanghai Earlier This Year ...more

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