Travel News: Airlines, Tourism and Airfares

Carnival Cruise Lines, the world's largest cruise operator, has partnered with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to launch a comprehensive fundraising initiative with a goal of raising $3 million for the organization over the next three years. St. Jude is one of the world's premier centers for the research and treatment of pediatric cancer and other catastrophic diseases.

On Monday, March 22nd 2010, Google announced its plan to end the controversial censorship of their search engine in China (Google.cn), which has been ongoing since the Google-China agreement in January 2006.

I’ve often mentioned in my keynote presentations, that an airline brand is not what you say it is, it’s what they say it is. And I found a perfect example of this today – reading a post in the Airliners.net forums about Kulula.com – the South African LCC.

LAN Airlines S.A. and its subsidiaries announced that the Company signed an agreement with Boeing to adjust the delivery of ten Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners to be incorporated into the Company's long haul fleet. This new delivery schedule anticipates by three years the arrival of this aircraft, previously scheduled for 2014 and now expected starting in the first semester of 2011.

The leader of the largest hacking and identity theft ring ever prosecuted by the U.S. government has been sentenced to 20 years and one day in prison for his role in a series of hacks into a major payment processor and several retail networks, announced Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer; U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Carmen Milagros Ortiz; U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Benton J. Campbell; U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Paul J. Fishman; and Director of the U.S. Secret Service Mark Sullivan.

US Airways takes to the sky with Gogo wireless Inflight Internet

Leading Lodging Technology and Marketing Company Launches Free Assessment Tool for Measuring the Effectiveness of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Programs for Hotels, Resorts and Vacation Rentals.

The WiMAX/LTE battle, App Stores and Mobile Healthcare headed the agenda at this year’s CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas, Juniper Research analysts found.

In year-over-year measurements, the industry’s occupancy ended the week with a 5.2-percent increase to 61.4 percent. Average daily rate dropped 1.9 percent to finish the week at US$98.30. Revenue per available room for the week was up 3.2 percent to US$60.39.

The 214-room hotel is expected to open in the first quarter of 2011, bringing a traveler favorite to Lake Pointe Town Center