* Newstin.com is for sale! * After achieving our strategic milestone, we are offering for sale: Newstin.com and all 14 related domains featuring 1 million unique visitors per month + continuously updated news database of 37 million articles in 12 world languages from 166,000 global and weighted sources + 2.1 billion metadata * To seize this unique chance, contact invest@newstin.com. * Newstin.com is for sale! *

Tour Operators

Luxury travel

Many tour operators claim to offer the world’s ultimate vacation, but the honour currently belongs to the Around the World in 80 Ways package - a 30-day trip at a mind-numbing RM3.4mil. We hope Jules Verne, the author,...

World Tourism Day

Discounts for foreigners on city tours, hotel rates Saturday, September 27, 2008 By Faryal Najeeb Karachi World Tourism Day is being celebrated since September 27, 1980 by the World Tourism Organisation. The purpose of...

Thomas Cook owner could place shares

Thomas Cook's controlling shareholder has finally admitted it may be forced to sell down some of its 54pc stake in the tour operator in connection with a fresh financing deal. By Alistair Osborne, Business Editor Thomas...

Banks hitting the skids, but is it all going bananas?

Published Date: 26 September 2008 THE worst economic shock since the Great Depression could change Scotland's flagship financial services sector beyond recognition. The potential absorption of Bank of Scotland, Britain's...

Speed bumps ahead for Segway tours?

CORONADO – Move over, bicycles – there's another two-wheeled tourist-mover rolling around Coronado's scenic streets. It's the Segway, and sightings of the self-balancing electric vehicle reached new levels this summer...

Another tourism is possible

The international debate on tourism and climate change needs to be widened to include a human rights based approach. This is one of the main messages to tourism leaders formulated by a group of civil society organisations...

Kidnappers exploited security weak spot in Egypt

CAIRO (Reuters) - Kidnappers who snatched European tourists in Egypt's desert last week exploited a weak spot in Cairo's security network, but the kidnapping is unlikely to herald a return to Islamist militant attacks on...

XL collapse pushes up package holiday prices by 8 per cent

The price of some package holidays has increased by an average of eight per cent since the collapse of XL, Britain's third largest travel operator. Autumn deals to southern Europe, north Africa and further afield have...

Cruise holidays how to protect your money

There are steps you can take to protect yourself when booking a cruise holiday, even if you choose the DIY route, says Jane Archer. Don't get caught short by failing to protect your holiday Photo: Getty On a cruise in...

Major Luxury Travel and Adventure Company Chooses Commonspot to Manage Website

PaperThin, Inc., a leading Web content management system provider, today announced that Abercrombie&Kent, the world's premier luxury travel company, has selected CommonSpot™ to power its websites. Abercrombie&Kent (A&K)...