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Bureaus use itineraries to define a destination

By Steve Crecelius, courtesy Go Wichita CVB In June, Greg Eckhart, tourism sales manager for Travel Portland, attended the annual TAP Dance meeting of Travel Alliance Partners in Louisville, Ky., where he and three other members of the Oregon tourism industry had...

Operator to start selling trips to Cuba

  Forbidden for U.S. tourists for many years, travel to Cuba is now possible through Insight Cuba, a tour operator that takes small groups to Cuba. The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control recently granted the company a license to start taking...

Some tour operators ditch single travel supplements

According to a recent report by Travel Weekly, a single person looking to join a group tour is often deterred by a costly single supplement. In response, some tour operators, such as Abercrombie and Kent, have discovered that cutting out single supplements can be...

Travel Personnel News: July 2011

NORWALK, Conn. — Tauck has promoted Jennifer Tombaugh from executive vice president to president of Tauck Inc. Tombaugh has held several leadership positions for the tour operator company since she started in 2001, including brand manager for the launch of...

Survey Says: July 2011

JavaScript needs to be enabled for polling to work. Last survey’s results What type of theater is your group most likely to enjoy this year?   Broadway in New York: 14% Regional theater: 42% Dinner theater: 44%

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