Yapta Partners With Booking.com to Expand Hotel Search
SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - 07/30/10) - Yapta.com, the airfare tracking and hotel rate tracking service, today announced that it has integrated hotel search results from Booking.com, and is now able to track hotel prices on a much broader selection of properties. Using Yapta's enhanced hotel rate tracking service, travelers can monitor pricing on over 196,000 domestic and international properties ...
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Aussie is first 'millionaire'
AN AUSTRALIAN man on his first overseas holiday with his wife has become the first monthly winner of the 'Be a Changi Millionaire' Draw after buying two bottles of perfume at Singapore Changi Airport. Mr Philip Moody, 53, won S$5,000 in cash plus return airfare to Singapore with a three day/two night hotel stay as the June winner of the monthly draw. The veteran police officer now has a one-in ...
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Asian airlines may tap ancillary stream
COMPETITIVE pressures placed by low-cost carriers (LCCs) may see full-service carriers (FSCs) in Asia start unbundling services to lower their airfare base. With LCCs as lead innovators in providing ancillary services, Amadeus Asia Ltd vice-president for the Asia Pacific airline business John Chapman said US FSCs are more aggressive in unbundling services to lower their fares. Some products and ...
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Road trip down under
Imagine waking up to the scent of fresh country and the toughest decision for the day is deliberating which wineries to visit.
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Introducing Filipinos to the Philippines
ITS A shame, really, that many well-traveled Filipinos know more about other countries than they do their own, making them the proverbial strangers in their own homeland.
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Amazing story of world's largest exporter of roses
Today, his company Karuturi Global Ltd has 3,000 sq km of agricultural land in Ethiopia (5 times the size of Mumbai) and 239 hectares of land for rose cultivation.
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S'pore Islamic Religious Council approves 30 Haj packages
SINGAPORE: The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore, MUIS, has appointed seven individual and five consortium travel agents as General Sales Agents, GSAs, for this year's Haj.
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Kolkatan honeymoon in New Zealand
Kolkata, July 15 : Singapore Airlines has introduced a special early bird offer to honeymoon in South Island of New Zealand for Kolkatans.
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Is Taiwan Asia's Next One-Stop Plastic Surgery Stop?
With an easing in visa regulations for mainland Chinese, Taiwan's niche medical tourism market is about to get a lot more customers
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What's on: Thursday's picks
Thursday's top pick SOUL OF THE MOTHERING TREE Singapore-based Indian woman artist, Sarbani Bhattacharya, displays her almost poetic collection of paintings that exude fluid energy through the timeless concept of the mother and child and the symbolic relevance of the Tree of Life.
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