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Priceline Pays Fine for Breaking Cuba Sanctions

Thursday, 20/11/2008

Priceline.com Inc. has become at least the second online travel company to get slapped with a fine from the U.S. federal government for violating the longstanding sanctions on Cuba.

 

Caribbean Hotel Bookings Plunge as Economy Sags

Monday, 17/11/2008
by John Marino

Hotel bookings in the Caribbean are plunging as financial turbulence dashes vacation plans, and hoteliers and governments are trying to ward off a deep slump by ramping up marketing efforts and slashing prices.

 

American Express to Hack Off 10 Percent of Global Workforce

Thursday, 13/11/2008

American Express has announced companywide reengineering initiatives expected to produce cost benefits of approximately $1.8 billion in 2009, including the elimination of an estimated 7,000 jobs, primarily at the management level. The reengineering plan includes reducing compensation expenses, cutting operating costs and scaling back investment spending.

 

American Express to Hack Off 10 Percent of Global Workforce

Thursday, 13/11/2008

American Express has announced companywide reengineering initiatives expected to produce cost benefits of approximately $1.8 billion in 2009, including the elimination of an estimated 7,000 jobs, primarily at the management level. The reengineering plan includes reducing compensation expenses, cutting operating costs and scaling back investment spending.

 

American Express to Hack Off 10 Percent of Global Workforce

Thursday, 13/11/2008

American Express has announced companywide reengineering initiatives expected to produce cost benefits of approximately $1.8 billion in 2009, including the elimination of an estimated 7,000 jobs, primarily at the management level. The reengineering plan includes reducing compensation expenses, cutting operating costs and scaling back investment spending.

 

American Express to Hack Off 10 Percent of Global Workforce

Thursday, 13/11/2008

American Express has announced companywide reengineering initiatives expected to produce cost benefits of approximately $1.8 billion in 2009, including the elimination of an estimated 7,000 jobs, primarily at the management level. The reengineering plan includes reducing compensation expenses, cutting operating costs and scaling back investment spending.

 

TIA Forecasts Modest Decline in Leisure Travel

Monday, 10/11/2008

The Travel Industry Association released its annual travel forecast, which said that while the travel industry will continue to face challenges through 2009 and in some segments through 2010, leisure travel will sustain the industry while business travel retrenches.

 

Starwood to Cut Jobs, Costs After Third-Quarter Loss

Thursday, 06/11/2008

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc, operator of the W, Westin, Sheraton, and St. Regis brands, posted a lower third-quarter profit than expected and cut its forecast for the full year, Reuters reports.

 

San Theft Causing Tidal Surges in Caribbean Beaches

Monday, 03/11/2008

Caribbean sand, favored in creating smooth surfaces for plastering and finishing, is being hauled away by the truckload late at night. On some islands not much bigger than Manhattan, towns and ecologically sensitive areas are now exposed to tidal surges and rough seas.

 

In Many U.S. Airports, Guns Are OK outside Security

Thursday, 30/10/2008

Flying in the U.S. has been transformed since Sept. 11, with passengers forced to remove their shoes, take out their laptop computers and put liquids and gels in clear plastic bags. Yet it’s perfectly legal to take a loaded gun right up to the security checkpoint at some of the nation’s biggest airports.

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Mexico’s Capella Bahia Maroma Names Julian Smaldoni GM

Capella Hotels and Resorts appointed Julian Smaldoni as general manager of Capella Bahia Maroma, a luxury resort and residential community in Mexico’s Riviera Maya set to open in the spring 2009.

 
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New Tourism Scholarship Opportunity

A scholarship opportunity may soon become available for Caribbean residents who work in the tourism industry. This development is the result of a donation by the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association of $10,000 to the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Foundation, Inc.

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More Cruise Ships to Visit Panama

Since Panama signed an agreement with cruise ships companies, which are members of the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association in October 2000, the arrival of passengers to the Panamanian ports of Gatun, Colon 2000, Cristobal, Balboa, Fuerte Amador and Kuna Yala has increased, which confirm the status of the country as an established tourist destination.

 
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Priceline Pays Fine for Breaking Cuba Sanctions

Priceline.com Inc. has become at least the second online travel company to get slapped with a fine from the U.S. federal government for violating the longstanding sanctions on Cuba.

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