Travel & Travel Technology News.Apr 2, 2007 Almond Resorts Announces Travel Impressions As Booking Engine Wendy Cole, Almond Resorts' vice president of sales and marketing for North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , told Travel Agent on Thursday that the company will be the private label for Travel Impressions, which offers agents up to a 13 percent commission. Mar 30, 2007 Hawaii Posts Increased Visitor Spending in February Travelers who visited Hawaii last month spent 4.2 percent more than those who came to the 50th state a year earlier, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. statistics released Thursday by the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. Mar 30, 2007 Prestigious Guidebook Heads West The Michelin Guide for the first time will produce hotel and restaurant guides for Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Las Vegas, the company said on Thursday. Mar 30, 2007 Airlines buy more sophisticated entertainment technology Airlines are investing in advanced entertainment technology to help them attract more travelers. New in-flight entertainment systems allow pasengers to select from scores of movies and television shows. Equipping an aircraft with a system can cost up to $5 million, experts say. Mar 27, 2007 Acapulco-Mexico's Tourism Tianguis 2007, the country's largest tourism trade fair, continued yesterday in Acapulco, Mexico with news of expanding the countries represented and of developments throughout Mexico. Mar 26, 2007 Almond Resorts Almond Resorts' Smuggler's Cove Renovates ST. LUCIA-Travel Agent is in St. Lucia until Monday for Almond Resorts' celebration of its newly renovated Smuggler's Cove, a nearly 20-year-old, more than 60-acre property purchased by Almond Resorts about three years ago. Mar 30, 2007 British Airways, Sabre British Airways on Tuesday became the first major international carrier to sign a new long-term agreement with Sabre, giving the GDS GDS Global Distribution System GDS Google Desktop Search (Google) GDS Goodie Domain Service (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) GDS Guards access to its fares and inventory. Mar 26, 2007 ExpressJet Airlines, Worldspan ExpressJet Airlines signed a multiyear distribution agreement with Worldspan. It is the carrier's first GDS partnership. Mar 28, 2007 SpaceDev US company SpaceDev, developer of the Shuttle-like Dreamchaser transportation system, has been awarded a contract by the Naval Research Laboratory Noun 1. Naval Research Laboratory - the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines NRL (NRL Noun 1. NRL - the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines Naval Research Laboratory ). Mar 29, 2007 SpaceX SpaceX reveals Dragon design Development of Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) Dragon crew and cargo capsule is progressing, with testing and selecting under way for the mix of internally developed and commercially procured subsystems. Mar 26, 2007 SpaceX SpaceX reveals Dragon design crew and cargo versions of the blunt-body capsule are essentially the same, with a 3.81m (12.5ft)-diameter base, when the ablative ablative (ăb`lətĭv') [Lat.,=carrying off], in Latin grammar, the case used in a number of circumstances, particularly with certain prepositions and in locating place or time. The term is also used in the grammar of some languages (e.g. thermal protection system is in place, and a maximum take-off weight The maximum gross weight due to design or operational limitations at which an aircraft is permitted to take off. of around 7,000kg (15,400lb,) including 2,500kg of crew or cargo mass. The SpaceX-built Falcon 9 to launch the Dragon will have at least an 8,700kg payload capability to low-Earth orbit. Mar 26, 2007 US Airways, Philadelphia, Charlotte US Airways' 'bigger' cutover (communications, networking) cutover - /cut-ov*/ Switching from an old (hardware and/or software) system to a replacement system, covering the overlap from when the new system is live until the old system has been shut down. problem was complexity of closing flights News from Travel Technology Update: The merging of the US Airways and America West reservations systems got a lot of attention because of the check-in problems that resulted in long lines at Philadelphia and Charlotte, but the "larger issue was the processing for closing a flight," US Airways president Scott Kirby said. Mar 27, 2007 Virgin America, EchoStar Communications Virgin America will partner with EchoStar Communications to provide live inflight satellite entertainment. Passengers will have access to DISH Network television as well as pay-per-view movies, music and games. Mar 27, 2007 Virgin Galactic, SpaceShipTwo UK company first to be named as Virgin Galactic. SpaceShipTwo supplier UK advanced materials provider Advanced Composites Group (ACG ACG American College of Gastroenterology; angiocardiography; apexcardiogram. AcG accelerator globulin (coagulation factor V). AcG accelerator globulin (clotting factor V). ) is the first supplier for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2) and White Knight White Knight falls off his horse every time it stops. [Br. Lit.: Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass] See : Awkwardness White Knight invents clever objects that never work. [Br. Lit. 2 (WK2) to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. . 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