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Fewer Travelers Head to Skies This Christmas
ABC News’ Scott Mayerowitz reports: Travelers heading home for Christmas can expect to see fewer fellow passengers at the airport this year. The Air Transport Association of America, the industry’s trade group, announced today that it expects 41 million passengers...

Aviation - United States - Transportation Security Administration - Air Transport Association - Christmas
AirTran Puts Ads on Seatbacks
ABC News' Scott Mayerowitz reports: Just when you thought it was safe to fly again, frequent fliers are about to be bombarded with a new wave of advertising, this time on the plane. AirTran Airways announced today that it would...

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Sofitel Creates New 'Legend' Luxury Brand
ABC News' Scott Mayerowitz reports: With so many hotels in a chain it is hard to tell which ones are truly extraordinary and others which are just, well ordinary. (There’s nothing wrong with them, but they just fit in with...

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Hotel Review: Tiara Yaksta, Théoule-sur-Mer, Cannes, France
The most romantic hotel in Europe? Sharron Livingston went to find out.
Hotel Review: Tiara Yaksta, Théoule-sur-Mer, Cannes, France
The most romantic hotel in Europe? Sharron Livingston went to find out.
Gatwick Express introduce ticket barcode scanners
Tickets can be scanned at London Victoria and Gatwick Airport gates
Gatwick Express introduce ticket barcode scanners
Tickets can be scanned at London Victoria and Gatwick Airport gates
Virgin Upper Class relaunched - including Richard Branson shaped ice cubes
Virgin Atlantic has launches redesigned upper class cabins with new beds and a 2.7-metre bar

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Around the Web: A Cannes Film Festival Virgin, Fashion Bloggers in Marrakech and Klout Score Travel Perks
We’ve also got on the scoop on which hotel Mary Katrantzou stole a pen from, a photographers pics of PUBLIC Chicago and a Polaroid-esque Instagram camera in our weekly round-up of cool URLs. See the Cannes Film Festival through the eyes of a virgin. A festival virgin, that is. – Telegraph Belles of the blogosphere, [...]
Top of the Class: Hotels in South America with the Highest Grades
Schools dole out final grades and, like the Harvard of hotels, so do we. We continue calling out Kiwi Collection’s top properties by region. Next up, the five hotels and resorts in South America with the highest HQ (hospitality quotient). Ponta Dos Ganchos Exclusive Resort Set down on Brazil’s Emerald Coast overlooking cerulean waters, this [...]

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Seattle's secret is out: Lake Chelan, Washington
If you live in Seattle or Spokane, Lake Chelan is your summer go-to spot. Best of all, few Californians know of it. But that's about to change.

CHELAN, Wash. — Just say the words "summer at the lake" in certain company, and you'll get a wistful smile, possibly followed by stories about fishing contests, belly-flops, mosquito bites, campfire songs, sexual awakening, lingering regret, family feuds, winterizing expenses and the prospect that the mortgage interest tax deductions for second homes might someday be disallowed.
Weekend Escape: The small-town charms of Arroyo Grande
The Central Coast town features Doc Burnstein's Ice Cream Lab, Gather Wine Bar, Santa Manuela Schoolhouse and a swinging bridge.

The sleepy Central Coast town of Arroyo Grande, population 17,000, is the ideal place to shut out the mayhem of city life for a few days. There's not much to do except relax, drink wine, read your book and take sunset strolls.

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