Package tours are simply a way to buy the airfare, accommodations, and other elements of a trip (such as car rentals, airport transfers, and sometimes even activities) at the same time and often at discounted prices.
One good source of package deals is the airlines themselves. Most major airlines offer air/land packages, including American Airlines Vacations [...]

The $2-billion online travel market is the latest to be hit by cybersquatters. Vendors, essentially cybersquatters, are using brand names of popular travel portals as their domain names and also in their content to generate traffic-sometimes by even hoodwinking the consumer.
So, don’t be surprised if next time you ‘google’ the name of a travel portal [...]

The Midwest Business Travel Association is once again providing business travel managers with the tools and information they need to navigate the ever changing world of business travel.
June 25th will mark the 4th annual Education Day and CCTE elective at the Avenue Hotel in Chicago where attendees will have an opportunity to hear and interact [...]

Police continue to investigate an accident that has left a gaping hole in an East Providence travel agency.
The driver of an SUV says she felt faint, before losing control, and crashing into Sun Travel on Warren Avenue. Her dog was also in the SUV, both were not hurt.
Eyewitness News talked to two people about the [...]

Economic outlook, 79% of business travelers are feeling pressure from their employers to cut travel expenses, according to a new survey.
sponsored by Orbitz for Business, a unit of online travel company Orbitz Worldwide Inc. (OWW), and Business Traveler magazine - one-third of respondents said their main concern is cutting the cost of air travel. That’s [...]

Most online travel stocks declined Monday, with Orbitz Worldwide Inc. falling as a Citi Investment Research analyst started covering the stock with a “Hold” rating, citing strong competition.
In a client note, he wrote factors such as its valuation and general growth in the online travel space make Orbitz shares “potentially compelling” over time. Still, “substantial [...]

United Kingdom-based travel company Thomas Cook Group PLC said it agreed to buy French tour operator Jet Tours as well as Canadian travel wholesaler TriWest Travel Holdings, in a move to expand in France and North America.
Montreal-based TriWest Travel, which was acquired for 114 million Canadian dollars, will merge with Thomas Cook North America.
Both purchases [...]

It’s only June, but temperatures in Southeast Europe have already signalled that summer is well under way. Heat waves and blazing sunlight make it even harder than usual to concentrate on daily business and not think ahead to the summer vacation. With the Balkans becoming a favoured tourist spot, many families from outside the region [...]

If you’re sick of wading through confusing reviews to find the best places to visit, you’ll be relieved to learn that a new expert travel review site, TheTravelEditor.com, has been launched to inject some much-needed 21st century thinking into the online travel review market.
Created by telecoms and internet veterans Kevin Evans and Nicholas Allen, TheTravelEditor.com [...]

German nudists seeking to take the experience to the skies had some cold water thrown on their vacation plans last week after their chartered flight to the Baltic Sea island of Usedom was cancelled.
Citing “moral objections” from the media and some negative comments from customers on the company’s Web site, online travel agency OssiUrlaub.de terminated [...]