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Emerging Markets Driving Tourism, Kester Says
May 20, 2013 | Bloomberg

Trees being planted at Prairie Dog Town
April 25, 2013 | KJTV FOX 34 Lubbock, TX

Fiscal Cliff and Airports
December 12, 2012 | KIMT CBS 3

Travel Industry Wikipedia Information

Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes or the provision of services to support this leisure travel. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity...

Sacramento Connect

Tenaya Lodge at Yosemite Celebrates Earth Day with Stargazing, Children’s Activities and Organic Wine Tasting
March 29, 2013
FISH CAMP, Calif. March 28, 2013 - In keeping with its commitment to environmental sustainability and operator Delaware North Companies' green travel industry...

Former UC student launches travel business
February 14, 2013
While a full-time undergraduate student at UC Davis, fourth-year economics student Robert De Forest launched his own company in August 2012. De Forest created...

Tourism Cares for Old Sacramento, CA: September 2012
August 05, 2012
Those of us who work in the Travel and Tour Industry have a way to give back and help save cultural and historic sites we are so passionate about through a...

Eight reasons why a river cruise is better than an ocean cruise
February 28, 2012
Many people love cruises and some of the biggest names in the travel industry sound like festivals, nobility, and confused nationalities – Carnival, Royal...

5 reasons why airline mergers may be bad for travelers
May 03, 2012
With the recent news of a potential US Airways and American Airlines merger, this would be the third major airline merger in the US in the last two years. In...

From around the web

Now at TKTS in Times Square, It's Monsterpiece Theatre!
April 29, 2013 | MetaFilter
This is part of feature for May on Conde Nast Traveler' s website called'' In Their Shoes: Undercover Travel Industry Job Reports.'''' They clean our rooms, serve us drinks...

Travel association exec to lead US gambling lobby
April 18, 2013 | Latest news updates from RGJ.com
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The new head of the U.S. casino lobby is a 38-year-old with ties to the travel industry who says he will seek consensus on Internet gambling. ...

Frank Fahrenkopf successor named at American Gaming Association
April 17, 2013 | Latest news updates from RGJ.com
A travel industry executive was named today to succeed Reno native Frank Fahrenkopf as president/CEO of the American Gaming Association. ...

Autos: DOT's LaHood stepping down
February 02, 2013 | indystar.com
LaHood will be a tough act to follow, people in the travel industry say.'' The best (Transportation secretary) ever, in my recollection,'' saidPaul Ruden, an aviation...

Concur's Travel Shopping Spree Continues, Buys conTgo For Its Travel- Based Messaging...
March 11, 2013 | TechCrunch
Concur, the same folks who handle many of our corporate travel and expense systems, has quietly acquired conTgo, a cloud-based mobile communications and messaging platform aimed at the global travel industry ...

Facebook + Kayak: Flights With Friends Launches To Take The Pain Out Of Group Travel...
January 10, 2013 | TechCrunch
Over the last few years, the travel industry has begun to undergo significant change, as startups and incumbents have fought to bring the disparate parts of a highly regulated...

Travel Industry on twitter

	http://t.co/9C6lrEdRts Summer Travel Forecast: Better, but No Blowout: For a travel industry still stinging fro... http://t.co/ytF2RYsM12 Twitter: @AmericaVIP
	#UK #travel US travel industry 'optimistic' for summer - The Guardian http://t.co/hVdCBOoEr6 Twitter: @TravelroundUK
	RT @MyFacebookApps: #Video can be a powerful tool for marketing, #SEO and customer reviews. http://t.co/VK7zfSFbUX Twitter: @DreaJanssen
	Seven (7) Billion Dollar Online Travel Industry That Pays You Daily! Get Paid To Have Fun! - http://t.co/aQVLt8Hod3 Twitter: @dhampton
	RT @antiguabarbuda: Antigua and Barbuda Tourism continues to rack up awards across the travel industry. Our beautiful island was... http://t.co/amTF42ECzw Twitter: @hoozhurs
	US travel industry 'optimistic' for summer \| World news \| http://t.co/cfRMg6i9v6 http://t.co/Ge9KIhH39y Twitter: @us_meta_guide

YouTube Videos

CNN's Richard Quest about travel industry at ITB
July 28, 2012

Future of Travel Industry Google Travel and Tourism Conference Keynote by Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon
March 02, 2010

How Big is the Travel Industry.wmv
April 17, 2011

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