Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category

Travel Deals, Discounts and Packages on Sale Now

Small Group Journeys to Africa With the concept of traveler’s choice in mind, African Travel, Inc. has a new Small Group Journeys option inside some of its popular tour offerings. The groups run in sixe from 4 to 12 people and operate more like a custom tour but with more social stimulation. South African Discovery, [...]

Las Vegas Goes All In for Resort Fee Charges

Caesars Entertainment finally has been bitten by hotel fee fever and, as of March 1, added daily fees ranging from $10-$25 at its Las Vegas resort properties. The news is significant because Caesars, with its nine hotel properties, including Caesars Palace, Harrah’s, Bally’s, the Flamingo, the Quad, Paris Las Vegas and Planet Hollywood on the [...]

Las Vegas Rundown for New Year’s Eve

As if Las Vegas is not on fire enough it puts on one of the largest New Year’s Eve parties and pyrotechnic firework shows on the planet. The rundown of fun brings an exhaustive list of happenings at Strip hotels hotels and in the downtown Fremont Street corridor. The Strip , itself closes to traffic [...]

Travel Agent Survey: Advice Trumps Price

By Lark Ellen Gould When it comes to planning a vacation what wields more weight in determining whether customers get what they want: Price or Advice? If you ask travel agents at the Ensemble Travel Group, they will tell you – you guessed it – price may be queen but product and destination knowledge is [...]

Hawaiian High: What’s New to Do in Oahu?

By Lark Ellen Gould Hawaii is on a high these days with hotels reporting healthy occupancy rates, a destination-branded airline touting double-digit growth numbers and visitor counts that are making life look like its 2006 all over again. Tourism spending over the first nine months of the year rose 20% from the previous year to [...]

JetBlue Election Protection: Vote with a Plan

JetBlue is shaking up the electorate with a 2012 seat giveaway just in time to fly away should the wrong candidate win the presidential election in November. In an unprecedented “Live Free or Fly” campaign, JetBlue is helping distraught voters leave the country by giving away 1,006 roundtrip tickets – or 2,012 seats — to [...]

MGM Grand Las Vegas: Wellness Sells

  By Lark Ellen Gould Can your hotel room make you healthy? The MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas thinks it can. The sparkling emerald-hued resort at center Strip that offers the largest casino in Las Vegas has developed an antidote to Sin City for visitors who want to bypass the smoke-saturated slot [...]