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Travel gateways experience boost in revenues
13/04/2012 08:46
In summer 2007, many Indian online travel Websites have experienced an increase in revenue, which reached to almost 30-50 percent. This increase is primarily attributed to the following factors: sudden increase in the aviations land area, lower airfares, more income to spend, and the growing...
Your money: Pentagon travel system under attack
12/04/2012 08:38
Being the world's foremost buyer of airline tickets, the United States Department of Defence acquired a booking system of its own known as the defence travel system. Its original function was to purchase the least expensive airline seat and to avoid additional expenses on paperwork and travel...
Travelling portals target corporate clients
11/04/2012 08:18
With business travels increasingly get hotter and the nation’s corporate sector looks for more economical choices, travel portals have been targeting corporate clients.
Companies like Indiatimes, Makemytrip, Ezeego1, Yatra, Cleartrip and Travelguru are in busy negotiations with...
Yapta to rattle rivals
10/04/2012 07:44
The Seattle startup plans to reveal on Tuesday its online travel service, which has received unanticipated news when its Pioneer Square head office building caught fire early Monday morning.
The incident might postpone major cash-burning start-ups. However, the company, composed of...
Civilians are prohibited to Travel beyond the Green Zone
01/04/2012 14:39
US announced Tuesday a suspension of all land travel by civilian officials and US diplomats based in Iraq outside the heavily guarded Green Zone in Baghdad. This is in line with the growing public outrage on the alleged killing by Blackwater USA of civilians.
The move was made despite Iraq’s...
BHA calls for tourists not to visit Noah's Ark Zoo
31/03/2012 14:20
A group of secular people is requesting that tourism groups stop advocating for a ‘Creationist’ zoo that tends to question the conventional view of evolution.
Located in Wraxall close to Bristol, the Noah’s Ark Zoo has been plagued with accusations by the British Humanist Association (BHA) of...
Barclaycard, TranSys reach agreement for the use of card for public transport
30/03/2012 14:05
British credit card and loan provider giant Barclaycard announced it will start offering debit and credit cards integrated with an Oyster card account, now being used as an electronic ticket on public transport services within London, after signing a three-year contract with TranSys, the...
Federal judges now required to have transparency in travels
29/03/2012 10:34
United States Federal judges have agreed on 19 September 2006 to organise a quicker and much more extensive disclosure method of the judiciary’s government-paid travels. The decision stemmed from criticisms that the judges’ trips could weaken the public's trust in a fair judiciary.
The...
TRX acquires a spend management technology developer
21/03/2012 15:42
TRX, a transaction processing company for the travel industry, announced that it acquired Travel Analytics Inc. and its subsidiaries: Tango, an airline-tracking system, and Sierra, a travel-savings calculator.
TRX CEO, Trip Davis, said that the acquisition of the said developer was a logical...
The different side of space: A blogger’s perspective
07/03/2012 10:40
A blogger describes a different side of aerospace life—an account written in a very simple yet human perspective.
Anousheh Ansari is an American businesswoman who takes up a Masters degree in Astronomy at the Victoria’s Swinburne University of Technology. For her, space is not fun as what she...
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