Business travelers keep online travel sites busy
Business travelers keep online travel sites busy — Almost three-quarters of business travelers prefer to book their travel online, according to Accenture. Business travelers are doing more of their booking online. In 2003, 57 percent said they preferred to book online. Two years later, the figure has risen to 71 percent.
Bills prevent insurers from discriminating based on travel destinations — Bernel Goldberg spent two years trying to get life insurance after moving to Seattle from Israel to open a branch of his law firm.
The Seattle attorney doesn’t smoke or drink heavily and said his medical exams prove he’s healthy. But several insurance companies denied him coverage because he noted that he planned to travel back to Israel - a country on the U.S. State Department’s travel warning list.
Doing justice to the airport? — State officials and analysts worry that adding Thurgood Marshall’s name might damage BWI’s identity as an alternative to Dulles and Reagan National. When Gov. Marvin Mandel of Maryland signed the 1973 order that changed the name of the state’s largest airport to Baltimore-Washington International, the order stated that the former name, Friendship International Airport, did “not communicate the location of this fine facility to travelers in other parts of the nation and world.”
Most expensive summer cruises 2005 — What is it about cruises that provoke such reactions of love or hate in people? To many, they are seagoing Utopias, oases of hedonism and peace unsullied by guilt, or the need to clean up after oneself. To others, they are maritime assisted-living communities that encourage overeating and indolence.
Cayman in top five world cruise stops — Even after the onslaught of Hurricane Ivan last September, the Cayman Islands is fifth in the world among the preferred ports of call for cruise ships and the cruise sector here is doing very well.
Utahn released in gun incident — An Army reservist accused of trying to board an airplane with a loaded handgun in his carry-on luggage will be released from custody, pending trial. Richard Alan Boyce appeared before U.S. Magistrate David Nuffer on a single charge of carrying a dangerous weapon on an aircraft. Boyce, 41, was arrested Sunday after security screeners at the Salt Lake City International Airport allegedly said they found the firearm in the Ogden man’s bag.
Mississippi musicians on display at Jackson International Airport — The Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame is now located in the main hub of the Jackson International Airport. Says founder Jim Brewer, “More than 2 million people travel through Jackson International Airport each year, and if only 10 percent of them come through here, that’s 200,000 people. The traffic is better than we could expect in any kind of stand-alone museum.”