Vacation News Archive
18-Mar-2006
- 'Hawks primed for vacation (The Sports Network)
(Sports Network) - The Atlanta Hawks have nothing to play for this season except pride and solid placement in the NBA Draft. However, pride can take a toll on a team with a 20-42 record and losses in three straight games, but losing could work wonders in June. - 'Teens to use vacation to help with hurricane relief (Sierra Star)
Roughly a dozen Mountain Area teens will be spending their Easter Vacation in Mississippi to help with disaster relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area in August. - 'Colombia cleaning up drugs-and-violence image (CNN.com)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- When it comes to tough sells for a vacation, it doesn't get much tougher than Colombia. The South American country has a well-earned reputation for gun-toting guerrillas, cocaine kingpins and the world's highest kidnapping rate. - 'Best Bets: 5 vacation homes (CNN Money)
Getting away from it all in a fabulous summer rental -- it's what everybody daydreams about this time of year. - 'Legislators target vacation-home owners with 25% surcharge for Citizens Property (Sun-Sentinel)
TALLAHASSEE -- Owners of Florida vacation properties and second homes insured by Citizens Property Insurance Corp. would face a 25 percent surcharge under an insurance overhaul outlined by Florida Senate leaders on Wednesday. - 'Disney Ship Cruising To Europe (WKMG Local6.com via Yahoo! News)
Disney's Magic cruise ship will take a European vacation in summer 2007, Local 6 News had learned. - 'Telecommuters Tout Trend As Good For Them, Employers (The Tampa Tribune)
Imagine being on a Hawaii vacation and stepping onto the hotel balcony to watch the sun rise over the Pacific. - 'Vacation airline owner Transat back in black (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Transat AT Inc., owner of vacation airline Air Transat, said on Wednesday it returned to profit in the first quarter as a stronger Canadian dollar helped ease the pressure from higher fuel costs. - 'For Some Iraqis, Vacations Bring Relief (AP via Yahoo! News)
Reem al-Jawad can't take her young daughters to see Iraq's "great and famous Tigris and Euphrates" rivers ? it's too dangerous, she believes. So the 34-year-old Iraqi housewife brought her mother and two girls for a vacation in Egypt, to see the Nile ? and to get a brief escape from the violence and psychological stress of the war back home. - 'Sundance Vacations Donates Vacation to National Kidney Foundation as Fundraiser (PR Web)
Sundance Vacations donated a Vacation week to the National Kidney Foundation of Delaware Valley. Twelve hundred dollars was raised for the charity by auctioning the Vacation to attendees at the Twenty Second Annual Kidney Ball. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2006]
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