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Travel Europe News Archive13-Jul-2006
Delegates back ?green tax? on Europe travel (Stars and Stripes)To keep Europe greener, Travelers may have to shell out more green. The European Parliament voted last week to adopt a proposal that, if implemented, could double the cost of millions of bargain airline flights by making passengers pay for the environmental impact of their Travels.
Business travel has its rewards (River Valley Business Report)S&S Cycle Inc. employees Travel to Australia, Japan and Europe and oftentimes are scattered throughout the United States. ?We?re all over the place,? said Carla Langyel, S&S Cycle administrative assistant.
Rail Europe Simplifies Ticket Categories and Adds Virtual Train Trips to Website (SYS-CON Media)To simplify booking European rail travel,Rail Europe has introduced four categories of fares for point-to-pointtrain tickets on all routes throughout Europe and the UK: economy(restricted economy), freedom (unrestricted economy), comfort (restrictedpremium) and premier (unrestricted premium). The company has also addedvirtual train trips featuring unscripted interviews with real travelers
Travel specialists know the world (The Fountain Hills Times)It can be assumed that people go into the travel business because they like to see new places. That is the case with Daybreak Travel owners Bobbie Cruikshank and Ginny Trulson. But it is more than the selfish side.
Europe diary: Abroad and home (BBC News)BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell contrasts the difficulty of finding lemon grass in Brussels with the easiness of listening to Radio 4.
Interview with Chris Loughlin, managing director - Europe, Travelzoo (Europe) Ltd (eyefortravel.com)?Any media company that is able to attract and retain a quality weekly audience of 10 million travel enthusiasts has an obvious competitive advantage. In today?s highly fragmented media environment, very few publishers can claim such scale and influence.
Online retail sales in Europe to touch ?263 billion-mark in 2011 (eyefortravel.com)Online retail sales in Europe will more than double in the next five years, to ?263 billion in 2011, as the number of online shoppers grow to 174 million.
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