Sirtex, a leading developer of targeted and innovative cancer therapies, will be featured on the “Business and Technology Report” airing on American Airlines In-Flight Radio. The audio segment is part of Sky Radio’s “Best in Breed: Industry Innovators” and will play throughout December on 29,000 American Airlines flights reaching approximately 4.2 million travelers. A 30-second [...]

JAL Hotels Co., Ltd. has signed a comprehensive agreement with DB Hospitality Private Limited, based in Mumbai, to operate multiple luxury hotels for DB Hospitality in major Indian cities, such as Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Bangalore.
DB Hospitality Private Limited is the hospitality industry arm of the DB Group of companies, one of India’s leading business [...]

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Tourism industry is available in its catalogue.
World Travel and Leisure Market Brief
http://www.reportlinker.com/p097859/World-Travel-and-Leisure-Market-Brief.html
The global outlook series on Travel and Leisure provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings. The report provides a bird’s eye view of the glitzy, effervescent, [...]

Mr. Peter Kerkar, Global CEO, Cox & Kings India Ltd has won the World Travel Market Global Award for his contribution to the travel industry at a glittering ceremony held in London on Monday, 10 November 2008. The award was presented by WTM’s Chairman, Fiona Jeffery.
The WTM Global Award is in recognition of Kerkar’s remarkable [...]

The luggage-contents of this year’s “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!” contenders’ remains to be seen - but teabags and slippers are a good bet, reveals new research by TripAdvisor®, in a survey of the home comforts and foods that Brits miss the most when travelling abroad.
Creature comforts: travel “essentials”
“Home sweet home” may [...]

Expedia, Inc the world’s leading online travel company, announced today a new agreement with Finnair, one of the world’s oldest operating airlines, and a growing industry player in air travel between Europe and Asia. This new agreement provides Finnair the ability to reach consumers on Expedia®-branded sites in Europe, as well as benefit from Expedia’s [...]

Star Hospitals (www.starhospitals.net), a North American medical tourism service, is helping millions worldwide gain access to high quality, timely, and affordable medical treatment overseas with the launch of its new Web site: www.starhospitals.net.
The Web site goes a step beyond the company’s present call center, which is operated by doctors, physician assistants, paramedics, physiotherapists, and other [...]

Delta Air Lines tomorrow will inaugurate nonstop daily service between Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) and Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, connecting the Southeast with India’s booming economy.
Delta will operate the flight with the world’s longest-range commercial jetliner, the Boeing 777-200LR, which bolsters Delta’s ability to connect passengers and cargo between virtually any two cities [...]

This November, Barack Obama and John McCain aren’t the only ones looking for votes, so are five travel-related nonprofits participating in TripAdvisor’s “More than Footprints(TM)” philanthropic initiative at www.tripadvisor.com/Causes.
To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/tripadvisor/35761/
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080902/TRIPADVISORLOGO )
With voting top-of-mind, TripAdvisor released a video (www.youtube.com/TripAdvisor) starring Hollywood phenom Rosario Dawson challenging people to make [...]

Kayak.com, the world’s largest travel search engine, surveyed more than 1,400 users on Kayak.com and Sidestep.com this month about their travel plans for the 2008 holiday season. Despite industry warnings that travel costs will continue to rise as Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays approach, more than 63 percent of travelers have yet to book their plans. [...]

Expedia announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2008.
“Yes, it’s a difficult environment, but that’s everyone’s news, and for travel any predictions about its depth or duration would be foolish,” said Barry Diller, Expedia, Inc.’s Chairman and Senior Executive. “What is important for shareholders of Expedia to know is that the [...]

As the daily news unfolds stories of massive home foreclosures, corporate layoffs, and depleted life savings, The Chopra Center for Wellbeing is teaching those impacted how to find balance and peace of mind. In the midst of economic chaos, The Chopra Center serves as an oasis of calm, instructing increasingly popular classes in the time-proven [...]