| | Tue, 20 May 2008 16:04:52 +0000 | | Spiking commodity prices sent stocks tumbling Tuesday morning, as investors took a look at oil prices at more than $129 a barrel and gas prices at close to $4 a gallon, and opted to step back.
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Source: CNN Money
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 16:03:33 +0000 | | Resistance to the 2010 Olympic games in British Columbia, Canada, began with last year’s string of direct actions and protests. As it becomes clearer that the Olympics are already causing evictions, homelessness, industrial development and environmental destruction, the …..
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Source: Infoshop News (www.infoshop.org)
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 16:01:15 +0000 | | Rob Perlman has been hired as vice president of sales and marketing for Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp., the resort announced Thursday. Perlman is chief executive officer of Colorado Ski Country USA, the state’s ski trade association. He will take…..
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Source: The Steamboat Pilot & Today (www.steamboatpilot.com)
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:59:32 +0000 | | The traditions of brand philosophy lie deep in the world of marketing physical consumer products. Location branding is a new application area in brand philosophy. In the past decade, countries, cities, and holiday resorts have tried to use brand philosophy…..
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Source: Innovations Report (www.innovations-report.de
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:57:08 +0000 | | One of the nation’s largest ski resorts is saving labor and time – while boosting snow quality and overall efficiency – by integrating computer-driven automation to control its extensive high-volume snowmaking operation. The fully-networked system at Heavenly Valley
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Source: www.ropeways.net
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:55:23 +0000 | | Airline fuel surcharges will cut air travel within Canada this summer as travelers consider shorter-haul vacations or driving holidays instead, Global Travel managing partner Scott Clute said Wednesday.
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Source: The Vancouver Sun
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:52:12 +0000 | | As Central Oregon’s resort properties boost their hiring for this summer, Michelle Henry, of Kingston, Jamaica, felt grateful she had landed a housekeeping position at Seventh Mountain Resort that would allow her to send money home to her three children.
Source: TMC.net
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:50:48 +0000 | | The 2008 Town Challenge Mountain Bike Series will gear up for a new season with a kick-off party tonight at the Old Town Pub & Restaurant.
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Source: Steamboat Pilot & Today
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:47:45 +0000 | | Global economic recovery is not expected until the beginning of next year, leading economists warned Wednesday at the Facing Tomorrow conference in Jerusalem.
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Source: The Jerusalem Post
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:45:35 +0000 | | It seemed like a can’t-miss tourist attraction that would pull in visitors to the nation’s capital: a new Madame Tussauds wax museum. But since opening last fall in Washington, the attraction featuring likenesses of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton - among many others - hasn’t been a big enough draw. Crowds dwindled after the opening, and Madame Tussauds is…..
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Source: Rocky Mountain News
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:44:13 +0000 | | More gas and oil records fell Monday as retail fuel prices struck new highs and crude settled above $127 for the first time, tightening the squeeze on drivers planning holiday trips
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Source: Rocky Mountain News
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:42:34 +0000 | | United Airlines parent UAL Corp. led U.S. carriers to their biggest drop in four weeks after JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised its estimate for the industry’s 2008 operating loss by 57 percent to a record $7.2 billion.
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Source: Rocky Mountain News
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:40:10 +0000 | | Although many local and national travel agencies have closed in recent years, many of those that have survived have thrived. The increase in business comes as a bit of a surprise to many, since the industry has struggled for years and the economy is at best flat, and at worst, in a recession
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Source: Long Island Business News (www.libn.com)
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:38:22 +0000 | | The planned Delta-Northwest merger will cause short-term pain but should be beneficial in the long run, credit rating firm Standard & Poor’s said. The estimated $1 billion in merger-related costs will strain the airlines, which are already feeling some of the same financial pressures that sent them into bankruptcy protection nearly three years ago.
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Source: ajc.com
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:22:53 +0000 | | Consumers, buffeted by rising costs for gasoline and groceries, have been finding ways to cut back on nonessential spending. But the Walt Disney Company said Tuesday that it saw no weakness in its theme park business, a unit that has come under scrutiny as an indicator of whether declining consumer confidence is seeping into more nooks and crannies of the economy.
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Source: The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:22:42 +0000 | | Delta Airlines on Monday added a $110 roundtrip fuel surcharge to its Los Angeles-Honolulu flights. The notice was posted Friday on the Web site of California-based travel company Pleasant Holidays.
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Source: Pacific Busines News
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:22:33 +0000 | | Air Canada has reported a first-quarter net loss of $288 million compared with a loss of $34 million in the first three months of last year. The latest loss included a $125-million provision for cargo price-fixing investigations and $89 million in currency-related setbacks.
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Source: The Canadian Press
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:22:23 +0000 | | Angry oil consumers taking aim at OPEC are looking at a “scapegoat” instead of a needed mirror, the head of the bloc of oil producers said during a visit to Washington Thursday.
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Source: United Press International (www.upi.com)
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:22:11 +0000 | | With oil prices continuing to rise, a former ski industry mogul who is also a former part-owner of the Boston Red Sox has started a venture that aims to convert thousands of home heating systems in the Northeast from oil to wood pellets.
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Source: Boston.com
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| | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:21:57 +0000 | | Trip planning starts for most of us these days with a click of a button online. But are there “secret” sites? Or at least, “best” sites beyond Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz?
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Source: freep.com
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| | Sat, 17 May 2008 21:30:55 +0000 | | Incredible India is feeling the heat. No, it’s not the summer. It’s the slow drying up of order books for inbound travel and hotels. Travel agents are reporting a 20-25% dip in leisure bookings for the coming holiday season. The epicentre of the trouble, it appears, is about 16,000 miles away.
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Source: The Economic Times
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| | Sat, 17 May 2008 21:28:10 +0000 | | The Airline Reporting Corporation (ARC) reported $7.8 billion in air sales for April 2008 and $29.7 billion in air sales year to date. This is a 5.9-percent increase over the same period of 2007. Domestic fares were $3.4 billion while international fares were $3.2 billion. Domestic transactions …
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Source: Travel Agent Central
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| | Sat, 17 May 2008 21:25:14 +0000 | | Las Vegas has, and it’s hurting casino profits. Disney has not, and the “Magic Kingdom” is reaping the winnings. In theory, it’s not supposed to be this way. The gaming business often brags that it’s recession-proof because gamblers will always like to gamble, but amusement….
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Source: CNN.com/Travel
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| | Sat, 17 May 2008 21:11:09 +0000 | | Florida tourism increased by 3.4 percent during the first three months of 2008 compared to the same time last year.
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Source: www.chron.com
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| | Thu, 15 May 2008 00:02:01 +0000 | | The RCMP plans to install hundreds of closed-circuit television cameras for security during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, CBC News has learned.
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Source: CBC.ca
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| | Wed, 14 May 2008 23:59:01 +0000 | | When local restaurateur Bobby Starekow discovered Summit County more than 35 years ago, he decided to hang up his stethoscope and rethink his game plan.
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Source: Summit Daily News (www.summitdaily.com)
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| | Wed, 14 May 2008 23:57:19 +0000 | | Package delivery company FedEx Corp says demand is sluggish, yet fuel prices are rising so fast that its surcharges can’t keep up.
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Source: Reuters.com
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| | Wed, 14 May 2008 23:56:23 +0000 | | Our mountains are our reservoirs. In Washington, as el sewhere in the American West, it’s axiomatic. A deep mountain snowpack equals plentiful downstream supplies of water for fish, irrigated crops, municipal drinking water and hydroelectric generators
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Source: TheNewsTribune.com
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| | Wed, 14 May 2008 23:50:37 +0000 | | Chairman and CEO Rusty Gregory, a longtime resort industry veteran, has been named as a trustee of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation, according to U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association President and CEO Bill Marolt.
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Source: Skiracing.com
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| | Wed, 14 May 2008 23:48:17 +0000 | | Air Canada customers will be surprised to find out that they will now have to pay a surcharge of up to $120 on top of their airfare for domestic flights.
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Source: CTV.ca
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