A Unique Travel Guide into Cuba’s Consciousness
24.05.2006, 14:02
Cuba is a State of Mind: The Spiritual Traveler, Vol. 1," by p. w. long, with Juaquin Santiago and Elijo Truth, is an innovative travel guide that opens readers’ eyes to a little known Cuba by giving voice to Cuba’s silent majority.
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Full of magical energy and limitless promise, Cuba seems to grab people by the soul and change them forever. Richly poetic and reading more like a novel than a travel guide, "Cuba is a State of Mind" is the first book to give readers the reality of the landscape, rather than just a map to the local sights. This work is about the real Cubans, the black and rural white, who struggle to build a life in the country they love.
Travel firms take focus off 'cheap'
06.05.2006, 19:42
People shopping for the best travel deals online in the future likely will find a lot more to consider than just price.
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Richard Harris, senior vice president of strategy and distribution for Travelocity, said Thursday that detailed information about travel — and the ability to make travel more than just about price — is a direction travel Web sites will go.
While such sites face a short-term risk to veer away from the emphasis on price, the long-term Travelocity goal is to "move beyond that," he said.
Travel domain hopes to lure wave of visitors
04.03.2006, 16:40
Travelers looking for information on the Internet can try a new destination.
The Web has added a domain whose sites end in .travel rather than .com, and so far about 16,000 site names have been registered, said Ron Andruff, president and chief executive of New York-based .travel operator Tralliance Corp.
The domain’s anchor site, www.travel.travel , is still working through some growing pains, including refining its search process. It could be months or even years before it becomes the main Web portal for travelers.
Paris Hotel Fire Kills at Least 20 People
15.04.2005, 14:34
PARIS - People screamed to be rescued from flames — some even jumped from windows — as a fire roared through a Paris hotel early Friday used by the government to house needy African families. At least 20 people were killed, half of them children, officials said.
More than 50 people were injured, 11 seriously. The fire was thought to have started in a first-floor breakfast room of the one-star Paris Opera hotel in the capital's 9th district, a popular tourist area, fire officials said.
Eight hours later, rescue workers were still pulling bodies from inside of the scorched building.
Tenneco Automotive Innovation Wins Automotive News Pace Award
12.04.2005, 07:12
LAKE FOREST, Ill., April 12 -- Tenneco Automotive announced today that it received an Automotive News PACE Award for its Kinetic RFS technology, a suspension system innovation designed to eliminate the engineering compromises encountered when correcting both vertical articulation and roll on a vehicle. The award was presented at the annual Automotive News PACE Awards ceremony on Monday, April 11, 2005, at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit, Mich.
European Shares Edge Higher
09.03.2005, 12:44
LONDON (Reuters) - European share indexes rose on Wednesday, buoyed by plans from companies to return more money to shareholders and solid earnings from the likes of hotel group Accor, but high oil prices kept a lid on gains.