- 'Hawaii Travelers In Mexico Stranded In Luxury (KITV TheHawaiiChannel.com via Yahoo! News)
After days of anticipation relatives finally got telephone calls Tuesday from a group of about 40 Hawaii travelers stranded in Cancun, Mexico, since Hurricane Wilma hit. It turns out they are all OK.
- 'Vertical targeted search engines tipped to have major impact on China's online travel industry (eyefortravel.com)
As of the first half of 2005, by amount of transaction revenue, the market share of the main players in the domestic online travel market are: Ctrip with 51.2% followed by eLong with 24.8%, where as Aoyou only takes 3.3% of the market, says the report.
- 'A change in travel plans (Fort Wayne News-Sentinel)
Several Fort Wayne travel agencies are awaiting reports from Cancun and Cozumel, Mexico, to determine how Hurricane Wilma?s impact on resorts there will affect their tour bookings.
- 'South Jersey residents concerned about their kin in Mexico (Courier-Post)
Local travel agents and government officials are busy trying to connect thousands of displaced tourists in Mexico with concerned family members in the United States.
- 'Tourists stranded in Mexico by Wilma scramble to leave (Sun-Sentinel)
CANCUN, Mexico -- Thousands of desperate tourists stranded by Hurricane Wilma besieged airports and tour offices Wednesday as officials faced the challenge of evacuating 22,000 visitors with only 6,000 airline seats available out of Cancun.
- 'Travel agency to evacuate customers from Cancun (The Philadelphia Inquirer) (Hotel Online)
Oct. 25--Apple Vacations Inc., the package-travel company with extensive operations in Mexico, plans today to start evacuating more than 2,000 of its customers stranded in the Cancun area in the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma.
- 'Hurricane leaves travel industry in disarray (Houston Chronicle)
Tourism and travel have been thrown into turmoil by Hurricane Wilma, the latest in a line of violent storms to hit the U.S. and Mexico. Hundreds of flights in and out of Mexican resort communities and parts of Florida remained canceled on Tuesday because of damage to airports.
- 'Wilma deals $800 million blow to Mexican travel industry (CNN.com)
Mexican authorities were still assessing the damage from Hurricane Wilma as they worked to get aid to the storm-ravaged Yucatan Peninsula, but the country's tourism minister said the region stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
- 'Feel the buzz of online travel at WTM - (eyefortravel.com)
Any size of travel business can benefit from simple and cost-effective online solutions that WebSource Europe will be offering at WTM. Its Travel Management System supports a range of travel products including accommodation, flights and packages and is an effective and scaleable solution for travel enterprises to conduct e-business with minimum human intervention.
- 'Amex: Travel Prices Headed Up Next Year (Meeting News)
OCTOBER 26, 2005 -- New York -- The price of air travel and hotel rooms are headed up next year throughout much of the world, American Express predicted yesterday in its annual business travel forecast.
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