Just in time for shoppers looking to give the gift of travel this holiday season, Travelocity’s licensee, Travelocity Incentives, has expanded its industry-leading gift card program (www.travelocityincentives.com) to now include vacation packages, allowing travelers to dynamically build a custom-made trip by combining flights, hotels, car rentals and/or activities. Additionally, the number of participating hotels in [...]

Yapta.com announced the launch of its frequent-flier award seat alert service, enabling travelers to be notified when they can use their frequent-flier miles to book an award seat that becomes available on a specific flight. The award seat alerts are provided in tandem with Yapta’s airfare price change alerts that, to date, have notified [...]

Abercrombie & Kent Residence Club, an equity destination club launched in September by the acclaimed travel services company, has achieved early success despite the current economy, crediting its debt-free equity model and the solid foundation provided by the parent company as key factors. It also announces a new transition offer to other destination club members.
A&K [...]

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 [...]

With even modest hotels charging from $200 to $300 a room all over the world (and sometimes more), the smart traveler is frequently turning to the rental of lower-cost vacation homes or apartments.
We have learned that it is rather easy to find, say, a perfectly acceptable $139-a-night apartment in Manhattan to substitute for a Manhattan [...]

Asia Pacific’s most outstanding travel and tourism event will be organised with much aplomb in year 2008. Schedule to be held at the Beijing Exhibition Center, China from 19 to 21 June 2008, the 5th presentation of Beijing International Tourism Expo 2008 (BITE 2008) is exceptionally meaningful and significant as it coincides with the much-anticipated [...]

IFCOT, the International Forum on Chinese Outbound Tourism, will co-partner with COTTM for a consecutive year to run their annual forum alongside the outbound travel and tourism show of China.
COTTM, China Outbound Travel and Tourism Market, is the only business-to-business exhibition in China designated to service the fast-growing Chinese outbound travel and tourism market. Taking [...]

The Plaza Hotel has reopened after a three-year, $400 million renovation, bringing landmark luxury back to Manhattan.
“They say this place is the world’s most famous hotel,” said doorman Freddy Davila, who worked for the hotel for 15 years before it closed in 2005. As he welcomed hundreds of visitors up the red-carpeted steps and through [...]

An international hotel giant plans to open a $100 million, 290-room hotel in Auckland’s CBD by the middle of 2010.
Paul Richardson, vice-president of Accor for New Zealand and Fiji, said yesterday a new five-star Pullman hotel would be built near the city’s waterfront.
The hotel will be aimed at the corporate and meetings market and is [...]

More than 40 people whose cars went into the ditch on Interstate 380 are sleeping tonight in the game room and lobby at the Corridor Inns and Suites at the Urbana exit.
Travelers whose vehicles were stuck in the ditches along Interstate 380 got rides from State Troopers to the hotel that used to be the [...]

The Monte Carlo Travel Market opened its doors to Professional Buyers and Individual Clientele for the 3rd time on the 12th-13th-14th January 2007. Likewise to the previous edition, the exclusive event characterized by its very personalized concept took place in the Grimaldi ForumÕs 4,500 sqm Espace Ravel and counted more than 11,500 Individual Clients. Results [...]

The ugly side of San Diego’s condominium downturn is on display along Fifth Avenue.
The bones of what was supposed to be Atmosphere, nearly 80 “luxury live/work units for a life well-designed,” sit open to public view. Naked steel rods and yawning holes are in the earth. The wood and chain-link fence around the site [...]