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Travel Blogue Day 5 Monsoon Season: related news
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Today I visited a handful of villages about 45 kilometers east of Dhaka. The countryside is beautiful, with palms, teak trees, rice paddies, and tidy little roads where school children dressed in blue uniforms were walking and old folks tethered goats and cows. The villages were prosperous. That’s partly because of the proximity to Dhaka, where village people can find work if farming or their other local industries go slack, and partly because Grameen Bank and other micro-credit outfits are busy here. People live in houses built of wood and galvanized steel, with concrete floors. The village centers are bustling places lined with shops and clogged with rickshaws. What struck me was the remarkable resourcefulness of the villagers in this region—which is one of many parts of Bangladesh that floods in the monsoon season.
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via Business Week @ 13:27 22nd Jul
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Joanie Ogg, CTC, MCC reportedly has left Travel Counsellors USA, where she was senior vice president, global and industry sales of the UK-based Host agency Travel Counsellors USA. Ogg had no comment. The founder and long-time president of NACTA (National Association of Commissioned Travel Agents), Ogg joined Travel Counsellors in April. Travel Counsellors USA, with its US headquarters in Saddle Brook, NJ, lists Darya Camacci, senior vice president, operations, and Kim Sherrett, recruitment manager, as travel agent contacts in its listing published in Travel Trade's 2008/2009 Co-Op/Host Agency Desktop Reference, the industry's authoritative resource for agency marketing groups and Host agencies. The 2008/2009 Co-Op/Host Agency Desktop Reference is being distributed in its print edition with the Aug.
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via Travel Trade @ 21:01 1st Aug
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Job.travel, the premium employment site for the travel and hospitality industry, announces free job and resume postings. For a limited time only, job.travel is extending an invitation to all in the travel and tourism industry to take advantage of a new, efficient job site for effectively matching qualified job seekers with employers. This targeted site provides the ability to quickly search candidates and job opportunities from handheld, mobile devices or desktop computers. As an easy-to-use tool for on-the-go individuals, job.travel offers mobile text and e-mail alerts when candidates and jobs match. These alerts provide access to "snapshots" to get a quick view of both candidates and job opportunities.
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via PR Newswire @ 18:16 12th Aug
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PRNewswire/ -- Job.travel, the premium employment site for the travel and hospitality industry, announces free job and resume postings. For a limited time only, job.travel is extending an invitation to all in the travel and tourism industry to take advantage of a new, efficient job site for effectively matching qualified job seekers with employers.
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via Earthtimes.org @ 18:16 12th Aug
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Travel authority Arthur Frommer has posted his 1000th blog entry on Frommers.com. Mirroring his classic best-selling "Europe on $5 a Day," Frommer's first blog post on May 8, 2007 was titled "Europe and the sinking dollar: what do we do now?" Since then, Frommer has posted 1,000 short, often humorous, takes on the latest travel trends and advice on affordable travel. Spanning topics from sea-sickness remedies (ginger) to the most gay-friendly vacation spot (Bermuda), Frommer's blog is read religiously by thousands of travel enthusiasts each month. Frommer also utilizes his blog to solicit contributions from readers to create an interactive forum for fellow travelers, posing such questions as: Do Power Bars join peanut butter as essential "don't leave home without them" items?
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via Modern Agent Online @ 9:38 23rd Jul
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The .travel top level Internet domain name is a top opportunity for small business travel agents to be competitive in branding their agencies and profiting from the Web, according to Edward A. Cespedes, CEO of Tralliance Corporation, The .travel Registry.
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via Travel Trade @ 3:45 5th Jul
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I’m a religious omnivore, with interest in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Voodoo. (My true religion, the one I really believe in, is Progressivism, which I define as living life in a way that improves the lives of humans and safeguards the environment. Ergo, politically, I’m a Democrat.) So when I travel I often stop in at the local place of worship. In this case, this Sunday morning, it’s the Sree Venkateshwara Temple on small but steep hill in the middle of Hyderabad. It’s just a kilometer from my hotel.
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via Business Week @ 20:21 27th Jul
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s 401(k) Day celebration on September 5, 2008. The Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America (PSCA) sponsors 401(k) Day to highlight the value of employer sponsored profit-sharing and 401(k) plans. As retirement follows work, 401(k) Day falls on the Friday after Labor Day during National Payroll Week, an annual celebration of America
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via Houston Chronicle @ 12:32 3rd Sep
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MARKHAM, ON, July 28 /CNW/ - During a press conference today at the National Business Travel Association (NBTA) International Convention & Exposition, American Express Business Travel announced plans to launch a business-to-business online networking community for the corporate travel industry. A first-of-its-kind resource, BusinessTravelConnexion.com will bring together a consortium of industry decision makers, suppliers, and experts in the industry's most extensive online, community platform. Also announced was NBTA's commitment to become the online community's first industry content partner. American Express Publishing's Executive Travel magazine will also provide content to the site.
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via Macro World Investor @ 21:15 28th Jul
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Travel Weekly has launched a blog to provide insight and analysis into the major issues facing the travel industry.
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via Travel Weekly @ 15:13 23rd Jul
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Job.travel, the Premium Employment Site for the Travel and Hospitality Industry, Expands with Additional Featured Employers
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via Yahoo! Canada @ 18:11 3rd Sep
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Gross travel bookings increase 71% year over year; International gross travel bookings grow 80%, Domestic gross travel bookings grow 59% NORWALK, Conn.--(Business Wire)-- Priceline.com Incorporated(R) (Nasdaq: PCLN) today reported its financial results for the 2nd quarter 2008. Gross travel bookings for the 2nd quarter, which refers to the total dollar value, inclusive of all taxes and fees, of all travel services purchased by consumers, rose 70.9% year-over-year to $2.1 billion. Priceline.com had GAAP revenues in the 2nd quarter of $514.0 million, a 44.4% increase over a year ago. The Company's international operations contributed revenues in the 2nd quarter of $164.5 million, an 82.0% increase versus a year ago. GAAP gross profit for the 2nd quarter was $253.
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via Reuters @ 16:37 5th Aug
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The day I became a story on page one of the Hindustan Times (Blogged in India, between covers in Pakistan), people looked at me, looked away, and then looked again. What kicks I got. Current friends demanded a treat, forgotten friends demanded to meet, neighbours congratulated and strangers called from Gorakhpur and Buffalo (my phone number is listed on my blog). But these moments of glory are fleeting. The day dies, the daily is dumped, and that day’s story becomes yesterday’s headline. Life chugs back to anonymity and I’m back in the darkness, groping to keep the machine running — five blogs, one day-job and five bosses in that day-job to take care of.
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via Hindustan Times @ 23:08 26th Jul
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One of the many new faces in .travel is www.Alabama.travel. Alabama known as Sweet Home Alabama is one of the most beautiful areas in the Southern United States. With over 4.6 million people calling it home, Alabama is among the nations leaders in aerospace, education, and healthcare.
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via eTurboNews @ 18:18 16th Aug
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BELLEVUE, Wash. - (Business Wire) Each year, American workers are honored for their achievements with a day off on Labor Day. But it
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via Earthtimes.org @ 13:11 5th Sep
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BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Each year, American workers are honored for their achievements with a day off on Labor Day. But it
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via Yahoo! Canada @ 13:12 5th Sep
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Because the percent of online adults who travel for business in the US and Canada is so similar — 29% and 28%, respectively — Forrester took a closer look at their similarities and differences to help travel eBusiness professionals successfully serve these audiences. Although US and Canadian online business travelers are similar in many ways — gender, age, travel behavior, and more — distinct differences exist. For example, US online business travelers are more likely to own laptops and smartphones. In contrast, Canadian online business travelers are more likely to visit and update or maintain profiles on social networking sites — especially Facebook. To succeed, travel eBusiness and channel strategy professionals should focus on content, provide more business-travel-related context, and plan Canadian-specific eBusiness channel
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via Forrester @ 15:09 4th Aug
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(Prudent Press Agency)--If you already own an internet home business there is a great possibility that you are so busy in the day to day running of your business that you fail to consider that there are other ways that you can profit from your money. There are some situations where you can make more money from investments than from your actual internet home business. This is possible because allot of normal expenses you incur in your every day business is not applicable when investing, like salaries, overhead expenses, and normal every day to day expenses. You are making your money work for you when investing rather that you working for money.
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via Prudent Press Agency @ 9:11 11th Jul
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LAS VEGAS, NV, Aug 07 (MARKET WIRE) -- Barry Shulman, CEO and owner of Card Player Media and SpadeClub, has launched a personal luxury travel blog, JETSETWAY, in which he writes about his first-class travel around the world. Readers of JETSETWAY can expect to find useful tips and great recommendations on first-class traveling from an experienced and knowledgeable world traveler. In addition, readers will be able to see scenic pictures of travel hotspots and find special deals for travel destinations. JETSETWAY will launch with Barry and his family's journey from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Avignon, France, where they begin their 26-day summer trip around the Mediterranean. "I'm thrilled to be documenting my luxurious travels for other people to learn from and gain useful information for when they depart on their own JETSETWAY experiences," said
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via Reuters @ 2:07 8th Aug
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Ever since Bill Gates announced a $47 million grant to TechnoServe at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, I’ve been wondering what the organization is up to that would warrant such a big check. I had a chance to find out when I had a couple of hours of slack time in Dar es Salaam before a flight to Egypt (via Nairobi and Khartoum). The organization’s Tanzania headquarters staff had just taken up residence in new offices a few blocks from the sea. There have been some major shifts in management as well. Running the Tanzania coffee growing project, which is getting a big chunk of the Gates grant, is Tim King, a 10-year veteran of McKinsey & Co.
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via Business Week @ 6:15 8th Aug
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If there are a million NGOs in India, there must be another million in Africa. Manka’s (see previous posting) mom, Dr.Lucy Nkya, started one called Faraja Trust Fund in 1981. While Faraja (comfort, in Swahili) isn’t very large, with just 20 employees and 70 volunteers, Nkya rose to prominence. She now serves on the Tanzanian Parliament and is the cabinet minister for social development, gender, and children. Nkya was busy in the Capitol when I passed through Morogoro, her home town, but I got to speak to Victor Mulimila, the deputy director of Faraja. He told me about the witch doctors.
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via Business Week @ 12:45 5th Aug
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Broadband Service Provider Trident SR Sdn. Bhd.
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via Business Week @ 10:55 3rd Aug
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In an effort to head off a potential crisis in the fast-expanding micro-finance industry, its leaders are adopting global truth-in-lending standards and creating a system for comparing loan terms offered by competing lenders. To manage the effort, a new self-monitoring organization, MicroFinance Transparency, is being set up as the industry’s policeman. The goal is to prevent companies from taking advantage of poor people with high interest rates and misleading credit offers.
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via Business Week @ 14:44 29th Jul
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Until three years ago, there was no 911 emergency service in India. Ramalinga Raju, chairman and founder of Satyam Computer, one of the country’s largest IT outsourcing firms, decided to change that. He set up the Emergency Medical Research Institute in Hyderabad and started piloting an emergency service, using the dial numbers 108. Now, EMRI is serving 147 million people in three states. Raju plans on eventually covering the entire country. So far, the government handles 90% of the costs and Raju covers the rest.
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via Business Week @ 14:44 29th Jul
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When Gurcharan Das took early retirement as the CEO of Procter & Gamble India at age 50 in 1995, he traveled around India to get in touch with his country. What he found is that the culture was being transformed. Because of economic reforms and the gradual breaking down of the stifling bureaucracy, “Our minds were being decolonized,” he told me. The result of Das’ travels and revelations was his book, India Unbound, which was published in India in 2000 and the US in 2001, and helped raise awareness worldwide of the new potential of India.
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via Business Week @ 17:21 26th Jul
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