TRAVEL.Abercrombie & Kent is introducing a new Concierge Rail service. An English-speaking escort will meet A&K rail clients at their hotel at a pre-arranged time to escort them to their train, ensuring they are comfortably seated in the correct seat, and handling the luggage. When they arrive at their destination, another escort is waiting to take them to their hotel. Aug 2, 2004 Chicago-based iExplore [www.iExplore.com], an on-line seller of adventure travel, is seeing a rebound in sales to such exotic destinations as Vietnam, India, Cambodia and Namibia, all of which are now in the company?s top 10 best-selling best·sell·er also best seller n. A product, such as a book, that is among those sold in the largest numbers. best destinations. Other top 10 best sellers are Peru, China, France, Antarctica, Chile and the Galapagos Islands. National Geographic owns equity in iExplore. Aug 5, 2004 Orbitz.com has added a new feature to give travelers more control over choosing departure and return flights. Customers can now select their airline flights in any order, even starting with the return flight and then selecting the departure flight. Orbitz says the new flight search feature is especially useful for travelers who have time-sensitive schedules, book multiple-city itineraries and have specific budget parameters. After conducting a flight search, users can pick from pre- bundled flight options or build itineraries starting with any flight segment. When choosing flight options separately, users still see roundtrip fares to make it simple and fast to plan a trip around a price. Aug 9, 2004 The Statue of Liberty Statue of Liberty great symbolic structure in New York harbor. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] See : America Statue of Liberty perhaps the most famous monument to independence. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] See : Freedom has reopened after undergoing security upgrades and renovations for more than two years. Visitors can enter the pedestal pedestal In Classical architecture, a support or base for a column, statue, vase, or obelisk. It may be square, octagonal, or circular. A single pedestal may also support a group of columns, or colonnade (see podium). of the statue, which has a new glass ceiling allowing for views of the interior. From the statue's observation deck Ob`ser`va´tion deck 1. A room or platform at a high point in a tall building with a broad view of the surrounding area. It is often an outdoor platform, but is sometimes indoors in a room with large windows to accommodate viewing. , located 16 stories above New York Harbor New York Harbor, a geographic term, refers collectively to the rivers, bays, and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City. This is sometimes construed in the sense "the Ports of New York and New Jersey". , visitors can experience 360-degree views of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Tickets for the Statue of Liberty can be purchased at Castle Clinton National Monument Castle Clinton National Monument: see Battery, the. in Battery Park or by calling 866-STATUE-4 (866-782-8834). Timed-pass tickets are required and a limited number of daily walk-in tickets are available at the Circle Line ferry office at no additional cost. A $1.75 handling fee per ticket is applied for timed passes. Tourists can also visit [www.statuereservations.com] as of Aug. 16 to reserve ferry tickets as well as promenade and observatory observatory, scientific facility especially equipped to detect and record naturally occurring scientific phenomena. Although geological and meteorological observatories exist, the term is generally applied to astronomical observatories. tours. Aug 3, 2004 Travelport Corporate Solutions, a subsidiary of Cendant Corporation, today announced an agreement with Avis Rent A Car and Budget Rent A Car that delivers discounts on car rentals for Travelport corporate customers using Travelport's complete "end-to-end" package of services that combines online booking, GDS GDS Global Distribution System GDS Google Desktop Search (Google) GDS Goodie Domain Service (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) GDS Guards , fulfillment and customer support from a single source. The agreement provides Travelport customers a market- leading package of services including discounted rental rates and enhanced loyalty benefits. The new car rental rates and options will be seamlessly integrated into Travelport's online booking tool at companies employing Travelport's complete solution of services and displayed for their users within car rental search results. Although operating in separate divisions, Travelport, Avis and Budget are all owned by Cendant. Aug 3, 2004 |
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