Head south for the winter to Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld with rates starting at $109 per night. Available from Nov. 19 to Dec. 31, 2010, guests can tackle shopping lists and enjoy Orlando’s famed attractions while staying at the Orlando resort hotel. Conveniently located directly across from SeaWorld, those in town can experience the park’s [...]
Between Nov. 1 and Nov. 29, Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) customers can find out the online link to register for IHG’s Black Friday deal by watching @IHG_Deals on their Twitter accounts. IHG says the deal will enable U.S. travelers to receive $50 off on any flight to anywhere until April 30, 2011 when they stay [...]
A recently announced agreement between Travel GPAT and Directravel will benefit Directravel customers greatly by maximizing their cost savings. Travel GPA is a program offered by Prime Numbers Technology, led by Rick Blanco. The organization dedicated to providing cost savings and benchmarking analysis to corporate travel customers also offers fully customized online reports through its [...]
Kiva.org, the world’s first personal micro-lending website, has announced an alliance with EarthCheck, the travel and tourism industry’s leading environmental management solution. This unlikely alliance is not as strange as it may appear, as Kiva.org offers the ultimate in financial recycling, while EarthCheck is all about minimising waste. Both organisations encourage corporate social responsibility, transparency [...]
With Halloween just around the corner, travellers are always looking for ways to make their experiences at various destinations more unique than the last. Hotels.ca® has unveiled their picks of some of Canada’s spookiest hotel accommodations available across the country. Each of the featured hotels has eerie tales that are supported by guest accounts and [...]
South African Airways (SAA), Africa’s most awarded airline, announced a 72-hour fare sale, with flights from New York JFK or Washington, D.C. to Johannesburg, South Africa, and Dakar, Senegal, available for only $879* round trip including fuel surcharges, for travel from Nov. 1-30, 2010. Passengers should book their trips to South Africa at this low [...]
Boeing (NYSE:BA) and Air China (SHA:601111) recently announced an order for four Boeing 777-300ERs (Extended Range) aircraft, which was placed by Air China, the flag carrier for the People’s Republic of China, as a part of an overall plan to expand its international services. The deal is understood to be worth around $1.1 billion, based [...]
The votes for the person with the lamest life in America are in, and the winner of MGM Grand‘s Get a Life Giveaway contest is…Karen Pratt. After weeks of receiving entries and votes, this lucky small-town California resident is the recipient of a fun-filled, Las Vegas weekend at MGM Grand. Her winning video appealed to [...]
The Red Lion Hotels Corporation recently launched their new “Stay Red. Save Green” promotion, which allows travelers staying in Red Lion Hotels to save up to 35% on rooms rates between September 10, 2010 and February 28, 2011. Guests at Red Lion Hotels will be able to avail themselves of a 25 percent discount on [...]
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently announced that it has cited SeaWorld for 3 workplace safety violations, and fined SeaWorld a total of $75,000 as a result of these violations. Following this announcement, SeaWorld issued a statement that it would contest these citations, adding, “OSHA’s allegations in this citation are unsupported by any [...]
