Vacation News Archive
08-Oct-2006
- 'Take a Vacation, but not from Your Skin Care Routine (Southwest Daily News)
(ARA) - Summer Vacation offers a time-honored tradition of getting away from it all - from the pressures of the office to the hectic car-pool schedule and everyday errands. It's a chance to be carefree and forget the constraints of the day-to-day. - 'Escapia Raises $2 Million in Financing to Expand Leading Suite of Vacation Rental Software and Services (SYS-CON Media)
Escapia (www.escapia.com), makers of theleading web-based application for managing Vacation rentals, todayannounced the completion of funding with an aggregate value of $2 million.The investment is being led by online travel executive and Vacation rentalpioneer Steven D. Murch. Buerk Dale Victor, which led the company'sinitial Series A financing, and several other individual investors - 'Scientists Debate The Neurobiological Underpinnings Of Amnesia (Medical News Today)
A first kiss, an exotic vacation, a sports team championship, a child's first words: all are memorable events. But when someone has amnesia, have the memories been completely purged from the brain or are they simply irretrievable? Is amnesia a defect in memory storage, or memory recovery?This has been a vexed question for more than 30 years. [click link for full article] - '"Golden week" pops 2.7 bln yuan tourism income in Shanghai pockets (People's Daily)
East China's commercial hub Shanghai welcomed more than four million visitors during the weeklong National Day vacation - one of three tourism "golden weeks" in China - and earned 2.7 billion yuan (about 337.5 million U.S. dollars) of tourism income. - 'Stop-Action That Saves the Picture (Washington Post)
Digital cameras let people edit their shots within seconds of taking them, then share the photos with the folks back home before they've even returned from vacation. Now digital cameras are making a different sort of trick commonplace: the ability to stand still. - 'Celebs put star power behind vacation ventures (USA Today)
When newly retired tennis star Andre Agassi announced last week that he is turning his focus to luxury resort development, he joined a cadre of celebrities who are lending their star power to vacation venues. Agassi and tennis-star wife Steffi Graf will co-develop fitness facilities for Exclusive Resorts, a "destination club" owned by AOL founder Steve Case. - 'Financing a vacation home gets easier (Austin American-Statesman)
New options bring second home within reach for more buyers. The American dream used to include owning a house. Now, it's owning two. Vacation homes, once the sole province of the upper classes, increasingly are becoming standard fare for mainstream Americans. - 'RCI Global Vacation Network presents the First Shared Ownership Symposium in Asia Pacific (Hospitality Net)
Hong Kong | Global leaders in leisure accommodation, RCI Global Vacation Network launches ?Shared Ownership ? The Rising: Asia Pacific Shared Ownership Symposium? - Asia Pacific?s first shared ownership symposium in Hong Kong on 10 October 2006. This first ever platform in Asia Pacific brings together industry experts and leaders to share invaluable information and insights into the trends and - 'Vacation Homes: Seeking Birds, Not Birdies (New York Times)
For many vacation-homers seeking resort amenities, golf and tennis have taken a backseat to outdoor pursuits off the beaten path. - 'Big horizons: Agency aims to make matches ?like family? (Rapid City Journal)
RAPID CITY -- For the first time in her 13 years, Julia Marsh will have an interesting answer if her teacher asks what she did on summer Vacation.
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