Travel News: Airlines, Tourism and Airfares

Approximately 150 volunteers are planting 10,000 saplings to establish a new 'browse plantation' for the Toronto Zoo's animals.

Using an internet-based survey, Verma and McGill polled senior marketers regarding budget levels, marketing strategies, and organizational structures. They found both a wide range of expenditure levels on online marketing and considerable diversity in organizational structures.

Open Allies for Airfare Transparency, a coalition representing more than 350 companies and organizations in the managed travel community, issued the following statement today on the new rule on passenger protections announced by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the industry trade association for the leading U.S. airlines, issued the following statement in response to the Department of Transportation (DOT) issuance of the Passenger Protections Final Rule.

Under the agreement, AirTran Airways' fares and inventory will continue to be available to the millions of travelers that visit Expedia®, Egencia® and Hotwire® sites in the US each month.

New world order or smoke and mirrors?

IN-DEPTH: Social media isn’t in its infancy anymore. Rather it’s time to be meticulous. It is imperative to work on business goals and strategy, and post this only one can select the relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) which will then be tracked to measure social media marketing success.

Included is the first Residence Inn by Marriott-branded property for extended-stay travelers in the Middle East, which opens in suburban Manama, Bahrain later this year. When all 43 hotels now under development or construction open by 2016, Marriott International will offer consumers 74 hotels and resorts and more than 17,600 rooms across seven lodging brands in the Middle East & Africa.

Current situation for travel and transport to and from Japan The United Nations organizations (WHO, IAEA, UNWTO, WMO, IMO, ICAO, ILO) closely monitoring the effects of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant remain confident that radiation levels do not present health or transportation safety hazards to passengers and crew.

Passenger Volume Down Slightly as Transactions are Virtually Flat