Travel News: Airlines, Tourism and Airfares

American's Partnership with Mercy Medical Airlift/Air Compassion for Veterans Provides Air Travel for Medical, Counseling and Diverse Rehabilitation Services

Perry’s Restaurants, a Texas-based, family-owned group of fine-dining restaurants, and the Dallas Regional Chamber will hold a ribbon cutting Friday, April 16 at 2 p.m. to celebrate Perry’s first Dallas-area location of Perry’s Steakhouse & Grille.

New Flagship Restaurant Offers Fast, Fresh Choices From Healthful to Indulgent

Healthcare is on everybody’s minds these days. Politicians, business leaders and everyday folks are scrambling to find the best solutions to care for everyone, to ensure all get the medical services they need. Most everyone agrees that health care is a basic human need. Service, good service, the desire to be treated nicely, is a basic human need too! Just as healthcare is getting Presidential priority, so should service care be the priority of any hospitality leader.

After months of planning, the agenda for the West Coast Green Lodging Conference has been finalized. The event will be held at the Embassy Suites Lake Tahoe Hotel & Ski Resort, South Lake Tahoe, Calif., from August 22 to 25.

ND will exhibit its innovative and industry-first personalized pre-owned aircraft program designed to provide fully-customized Cirrus SR22 aircraft with a high-performance Tornado Alley Turbo powerplant and Avidyne Entegra Release 9 avionics suite.

The National Business Travel Association (NBTA), the voice of the global business travel industry, today applauded the move by U.S. and German authorities to launch a partnership to link the nations’ international trusted traveler programs. Under a joint statement signed this week, the United States and Germany will develop processes for qualified citizens of either country to apply for the United States’ Global Entry program and Germany’s Automated and Biometrics-Supported Border Controls (ABG) program.

ECOTEL’s metamorphoses into a more inclusive and interactive certification, involving owners, guests, employees and the community. We see the practicality of going green through a case study analyzing Rodas, an ECOTEL, located in Mumbai, INDIA.

The Canadian hotel industry reported increases in all three key performance measurements during the week of 4-10 April 2010, according to data from STR.

Hoteliers need no special application in order to access the industry’s leading Web-based channel management and distribution technology solution