Hilton Hotels Corporation celebrates the opening of the new Hilton Garden Inn Liberia Airport in Costa Rica which is the brand’s first hotel in Central America. To commemorate the occasion, the hotel will offer guests an attractive introductory rate of $79.00 USD* per night based on double occupancy. The new Hilton Garden Inn Liberia Airport [...]

Frontier Airlines today announced a new customer-friendly change to its policy regarding same-day confirmed flights. Customers who wish to change to a different flight on the same day of travel will receive a confirmed seat, if available, for a flat fee of $75. Previously, customers were charged the fare difference between the original fare and [...]

Avantair, Inc. the only publicly traded stand-alone fractional operator and the sole North American provider of fractional shares in the Piaggio Avanti P.180 aircraft, announced today that it is offering a new 15-hour “Edge Card” at the best value in the industry — $72,750. The card price is an all inclusive one-time cost with a [...]

In January, February and March, Horizon Air is changing flight schedules on several routes in its network to better align them with its travelers’ current needs.
“We never stop listening to our customers. We’re always factoring in what we hear to ensure our flight schedules work well for them, whether they’re traveling solely within our own [...]

Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. announced the consolidation of several manufacturing facilities in coordinated actions designed to match current production to market demand and improve capacity utilization.
The Company has notified its associates of the closures at its manufactured housing plants in Woodland, Calif.; Auburndale, Fla.; Willacoochee, Ga.; Benton, Ky.; and Pembroke, N.C. All of these [...]

More than 250 attendees from more than five Latin American countries and 25 U.S. states gathered in Miami to do transactions and celebrate the impressive growth of Latino hotel ownership at the group’s first annual Hotel, Development and Investment Conference, held last week at the Doral Resort and Spa in Miami, Fla.
Despite a troubled stock [...]

With unemployment up, the Stock Market down, and Old Man Winter settling in for a long stay, odds are there’s never been a better time to escape to sunny Las Vegas with friends. Future Vacations is making it easy with the launch of a new ‘Lucky 8’ Las Vegas sweepstakes, offering one lucky winner the [...]

The Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Caribbean and Mexico now offer wedding couples a unique twist on the traditional first anniversary gift of paper: a certificate for a complimentary three-night stay. Couples can plan a second honeymoon at the hotel at which they were married or they can celebrate by exploring another Ritz-Carlton hotel in the region.
When booking [...]

Alaska Air Group, Inc. the parent company of Alaska Airlines, Inc. and Horizon Air Industries, Inc., announced it will webcast a presentation given by Brandon Pedersen, Alaska Air Group’s vice president of finance, at the Credit Suisse Global Airline Conference on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008, in New York.
The webcast will be presented live at [...]

More than 3.2 million Southern Californians are expected to travel over this holiday weekend — a decrease of more than 2 percent from last Thanksgiving, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California.
About 82 percent of local Thanksgiving travelers — or 2.68 million people — will go by car to their holiday destinations, also a [...]

TripAdvisor recently exposed its “Top 10 Au Naturel Resorts” naming SuperClubs’ Grand Lido Negril Resort & Spa to the list. Of all the Jamaica resorts, the Grand Lido Negril was the only one to be included. The Super-Inclusive property was ranked No. 9 along with properties in Mexico, St. Maarten, and the Dominican Republic. Winners [...]

Union Pacific will be the exclusive sponsor of the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial exhibition, which opens at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., February 12, 2009, in celebration of Lincoln’s 200th birthday. America’s 16th president, Lincoln was a great railroad advocate and is considered the father of the transcontinental railroad. He signed the Pacific Railroad [...]