Apple's Profit Doubles on Holiday iPhone 4S Sales Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | It turns out Apple didn't need an iPhone 5 to bolster sales. | The company reported on Tuesday that its profit for the holiday quarter more than doubled. And that was largely thanks to sales of the iPhone 4S, which, when it was introduced in October, was greeted with grumbling from pundits and som...
How the cruise industry sails under the radar Toronto Sun | The very public dispute between Captain Francesco Schettino and the owners of his stricken vessel is a symptom of lax regulation and supervision that can only add to pressure for the cruise line industry to be subjected to closer scrutiny. | The mudslinging over who decided the Costa Concordia sho...
Top 10 travel getaways of 2011 The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetTop 10 travel getaways of 2011 (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images) | We list destinations Indians travelled most to this year, and why. The compilation includes five domestic and five international getaways, but in no particula...
Cricket: Tourists on a steep learning curve NZ Herald | Time was when Zimbabwe were a highly competitive international side. | From the late 1980s through to the early 2000s, they had a core of performers who possessed talent and had a tough-minded attitude towards the game. | Players like Dave Houghton...
Campbell Newman's travel jet jibe against Bligh boomerangs The Australian | CAMPBELL Newman was forced to back down from his demand Anna Bligh forgo use of the Queensland government's jet to attend disaster anniversary commemorations, as it emerged that the Liberal National Party was seeking more than $300,000 in taxp...
Tourists have gone in circles rather than thinking in cycles The Australian | RAHUL Dravid was widely and justly praised for his Bradman Oration last month. He has also proven prophetic. "Creaking terminators": his droll, self-mocking description of India's top order has turned out to be almost unimproveable. Yesterday at Ad...
Indian spinner Ravi Ashwin says things just haven't gone tourists' way The Daily Telegraph Australia | DEFIANT spinner Ravi Ashwin says India should not be branded a cricket embarrassment despite spiralling towards its second straight 4-0 away Test series defeat in Adelaide today. | The tweaker - made India's fall guy to face the media for the secon...
Travel Insurance Tips for Smooth Sailing From InsureMyTrip.com PR Newswire | Download image | , Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster has many today doubting the safety of a shipboard vacation, but according to the Cruise Lines International Association, the world's largest cruis...
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One billionth tourist to arrive in 2012: UN Al Jazeera | The United Nations, which commemorated the birth of the world's seven billionth baby last October, is predicting the arrival of the one billionth tourist later this year - perhap...
Largest-ever group of Chinese tourists land in Seychelles Nation | A group of 152 Chinese tourists who landed in Seychelles yesterday afternoon made history as the largest-ever group of the nationals to visit the islands. | | They arrived...
Govt to Raise Fees for Gorilla Watching All Africa RNW Africa (Hilversum)-The Rwandan government said Friday it will increase the cost of a permit to track the endangered mountain gorillas, the country's main tourist attraction, to $750 from $500 starting June 1. | ...
NCAA Insists On BA, Virgin Atlantic's N37.6 Billion Compensation All Africa This Day (Lagos)-In the next two weeks two British carriers, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic (VAA) would pay to the Federal Government the sum of N37.6 billion ($37.6 billion) if the administrative panel set up to reappraise the investigations of...
Pensioners Disown Nigeria Airways Verification Exercise All Africa Daily Trust (Abuja)-The Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) has disowned a newspaper advertorial by a faction of an association of pensioners of defunct national carrier, Nigeria Airways Limited (NAL) inviting members for verification and a census exe...
How the cruise industry sails under the radar Toronto Sun | The very public dispute between Captain Francesco Schettino and the owners of his stricken vessel is a symptom of lax regulation and supervision that can only add to pressure for the cruise line industry to be subjected to closer scrutiny. | The mudslinging over who decided the Costa Concordia should sail within 150 metres of the shoreline of an ...
Frontier Airlines wants to reconnect with Denver Business Journal | New Frontier Airlines CEO David Siegel comes to the Denver airline with two main goals: prepare the company for new ownership and reconnect it in a substantial way with the city where it launched. | Bryan Bedford, president and CEO of Frontier parent company Republic Airways Holdings Inc. , introduced Siegel Thursday as Frontier's chief executive...
