New York, May 16 : This might look-like an odd companionship, but reports have emerged that recovering popstar Britney Spears and actor Mel Gibson have taken a flight to Costa Rica for a vacation...

Mumbai, May 16 : An eight-lane sea link with a twin carriageway and having a cable-stayed bridge design to be commissioned by January 2009 is poised to make for speedy road travel between Bandra and Worli suburbs of...

LONDON (AP) -- British Airways said Friday it will pay a dividend for the first time in seven years after reporting its full-year profits more than...

Speed City Scooters on the west side sells vehicles that get from 50 to 100 miles per gallon. Sales manager Tim Jackson said higher gas prices are prompting some to consider using scooters to get to...

Judy Castillo sat at her desk Thursday morning chatting with her boss about Bike to Work Day. She pointed to a newspaper article about a man who rode 10 miles to work each day, and joked that the...

NEW YORK, NY, May 15, 2008. The Leading Hotels of the World, Ltd., the prestigious luxury hospitality organization, has launched a sophisticated and alluring new website, designed to educate and...

SOUTHLAKE, TX, May 15, 2008. SynXis, the Sabre Holdings business that provides hotel distribution and Internet marketing services globally, announced today that Leonardo Hotels has switched to the...

MAY 15, 2008. A national survey by Access America, a leading travel insurance and assistance provider, has found that summer vacations will likely be down seven percent this year compared with 2007....

MAY 15, 2008. Feeling the crunch of ever-rising gas prices? Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) is helping to keep guests on the road this summer, offering travelers the opportunity to earn...

Beirut - Lebanon's rival leaders were on Friday preparing to fly to Qatar in separate planes in a bid to end the country's political crisis and elect a president, a government source said. The...

Trusted Tours.com, discount tour and attraction ticket company, is offering spring travelers and bloggers the chance to win a $150 iTunes gift card in their new May contest. St Augustine, FL...

Wisconsin's most coveted travel guide and premier vacation planner is now available. The 2008 Wisconsin Summer Travel Guide© is now in rapid circulation across both the Midwest and World...

) May 16, 2008 -- For nearly a decade, AffordableTours.com has offered travelers amazingly low pricing on three main types of vacations across the globe: escorted tours, river cruises and ocean...

The gleaming new $81 million cruise terminal at the Port of Houston will open soon, but don't expect throngs of passengers, streamers or cracking champagne bottles. Or a ship, for that matter. Port...

International Leisure World is a unique publication - directly targeting the growing number of Russian high net worth individuals, enabling luxury travel suppliers to market directly to this elite...

, vice president of marketing and e-commerce for STA Travel North America. Not all would-be backpackers are staying home. "The interesting thing about the student market, though, is that they have...

aled 89 per cent felt videoconferencing could boost productivity in the workplace.Of the 100 companies surveyed, almost three-quarters have developed, or are in the process of developing, a policy to...

Western airlines, both giant international carriers and smaller regional companies, are caught in a nosedive wracked by rising costs, falling passenger numbers and mounting losses. Bankruptcies...

FARGO, N.D. - A 19-year-old flight attendant has been accused of setting a fire aboard a commercial airplane that was forced to make an emergency landing in Fargo, N.D.Eder Rojas was charged Thursday...

Actor Tom Cruise attends the Broad Contemporary Art Museum opening at LACMA on February 9, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. (David Livingston, Getty Images) Tom Cruise is set to become the latest...

The package tour industry is in surprisingly bullish spirits despite the weakening of consumer spending across Europe. The big travel operators believe they can ride out the credit crunch unscathed,...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU -- NCL America Inc. has agreed to pay $485,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit involving former crew members who worked aboard the Pride of Aloha. The U.S. Equal...

CHICAGO - Passengers booking flights on United Airlines got a one-day reprieve from paying the carrier's fast-rising fuel surcharge due to what United says was an error.The mistake saved lucky...

Kirilenko had to finialize a visa for a family trip to France He was given permission by the Jazz to miss practice Kirilenko was still expected to start Friday night in Game...

) were in talks to form an alliance that would benefit both carriers, but not result in a merger. "Continental is talking to everybody," said Calyon Securities analyst Ray Neidl. "They're talking to...

By NOELLE STRAUBGazette Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - The heads of Delta and Northwest airlines promised this week to maintain the current level of service in Montana if they merge and to add a new...

Singapore Airlines is seeking bids for its 49 percent stake in Richard Branson's trans-Atlantic airline Virgin Atlantic VA.UL as the investment has produced poor returns. Singapore Air, the world's...

Qantas Holidays has released its first “Experience” brochure as a result of responding to market research which shows a shift in customer buying patterns as more travellers begin looking...

50 to 90 points: Your vacation is ecofriendly! 30 to 50 points: You're thinking about the environment, but there are still a few things you could be doing better. Read on for tips. 0 to 30 points:...

Hamburg, Rome: Holder Roger Federer continued his trouble-free progress at the Hamburg Masters with a 6-3 6-2 win over unseeded Swede Robin Soderling on Thursday. Novak Djokovic, the third-seeded...

UAL Corp.'s United Airlines said it accidentally dropped fuel surcharges of as much $130 round trip on all of its domestic routes around midday today. "It was a clerical error that resulted in us...

CHICAGO - The boat glides under the Michigan Avenue bridge and heads into the heart of the city, as the shimmering white Wrigley Building and neo-Gothic Tribune Tower rise to the north. It passes...

Complaints from North Carolina residents against a travel club have prompted state Attorney General Roy Cooper to tell the company to hit the road.The company, South Carolina based Vacation...

NEW YORK – High fuel prices are prompting many Americans to reconsider their Memorial Day travel plans, AAA says. The automobile club released a survey Thursday projecting that the number of...

HONOLULU - The Pride of Aloha ship, which cruised Hawaiian waters from 2004 to early May, will shift to a Miami-Bahamas route beginning July 14. Pride of Aloha will also get back its original name...

Summer is synonymous with vacation, and with the unofficial start of the season coming this Memorial Day weekend, now's the time to start booking flights to your favorite sun-filled destinations....

MySpace Here comes the summer of our discontent. Economic pessimism and high prices on gas and food have Americans in a sour mood and curtailing their vacation plans, though they probably need...

In the beginning were paper tickets, books of flight coupons that you exchanged at the airline check-in desks for a paper boarding pass (green for economy, red for first class). Heaven help you if...

BORDENTOWN, N.J. — Two hours after boarding a cruise ship in New York on Sunday, Mindy Jordan was overboard and lost at sea. The cruise line said the initial indication was that the slight...

. 'We are in partnership talks with the leading airlines of India. We need this in the long run. This would simply make our connections locally better and it would also help in timetable...

Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 12:00 CDT Secure Computing, a provider of enterprise gateway security, has announced that Frontier Airlines has switched from a competing firewall to the Secure...

By Kathleen Kreller, The Idaho Statesman, BoiseMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 15--Boise is still on track to get Idaho's first Whole Foods Market, a developer said Wednesday, but an attached...

Kerrville Daily Times, TexasMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 15--With Memorial Day and the summer driving season on the horizon, Wednesday's story in the Times chronicling the positive impact...

By Dave Levinthal and Rudolph Bush, The Dallas Morning NewsMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 15--Plans to build a taxpayer-owned and financed Dallas Convention Center hotel shot forward Wednesday...

With the economy in a slump and gas prices soaring, Memorial Day travel is expected to decrease for the first time in six years. The number of Americans traveling 50 or more miles from home this...

By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-JournalMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 11--MGM MIRAGE MAY SAY 'TAKE TWO': MGM Mirage investors may soon be able to double down. Chairman and Chief Executive...

NEW YORK -- Record gas prices has led AAA to project a drop in travel during Memorial Day weekend.AAA projected the number of Americans traveling during the Memorial Day holiday will drop slightly...

By Michael Pearson, The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 12--A proposed hotel and retail complex in Gwinnett's Park Place community near Stone Mountain likely won't be...

LONDON - Internet social networking and self-help travel Web sites are drastically changing the holiday planning landscape, the founder of the world's largest online travel advisory service said...

WASHINGTON - U.S. airlines carried nearly 3 percent more passengers in February compared with the same month last year, but did so while operating fewer flights, the government said Thursday.The...