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03 FEB 2012: A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent has been charged with grand larceny. Police say Alexandra Schmid stole $5,000 in cash from a passenger's jacket as he was going through security at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
08 FEB 2012: How do I love thee Puerto Vallarta? Let me count the ways. Let’s start with guaranteed sunshine, leaping whales in the Bay of Banderas, salsa and Spanish lessons, more great restaurants than I can squeeze into six weeks and friendly Mexicans. My husband and I feel much safer here than we do back home in Toronto where the CBC announces several shootings per day.
08 FEB 2012: Lion Air's slogan "We make you fly" was uncomfortably closer to the truth than absolutely necessary last weekend, when one of the Indonesian airline's pilots tested positive for crystal meth when he was arrested just hours before he was due to take off.
08 FEB 2012: Smart hotels are stepping up efforts to cater to niche markets - specifically minority groups and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. And the results are paying off – big time.
08 FEB 2012: The timing is curious, but then again, maybe not. Carnival Cruise Lines has tightened its cancellation policies for voyages of at least six days in duration. European cruises are not included.
08 FEB 2012: Colin and Greg Girard have expanded their CanadaEH.net Travel Network into Saskatchewan. The Official Launch of the www.SaskatchewanEH.ca website gives the CanadaEH.net Travel Network 18 travel and tourism websites marketing accommodations, activities and adventures in Canada.
08 FEB 2012: An Italian court has refused to lift an order of house arrest for Francesco Schettino, the captain of Costa Concordia cruise ship with 4,200 people aboard that ran aground off the island of Giglio last month.
08 FEB 2012: A Thomas Cook Airbus A320, which had been bound for Tenerife, with 175 people on board, made an emergency landing at Belfast International Airport when its wheels failed to retract after take-off.
08 FEB 2012: Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in Beijing for a four-day visit in China. Canada is looking to expand into new energy markets but, while there, he will also highlight tourism, lumber and commercial links between the two countries in a bid to expand business in those sectors.
08 FEB 2012: TUI Travel says it significantly outperformed the British market in January as it benefited from rival Thomas Cook's problems. CEO Peter Long said TUI was “clearly a beneficiary of the uncertain environment that our competitor is operating in. We have always said that was likely,"
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