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12 JUN 2012: Marriott International has announced a new marketing campaign with the slightly tongue-twistery slogan - Be You, With Us - aimed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) travellers, friends and families.
12 JUN 2012: Montreal police are being accused of political profiling - of searching and detaining people wearing the red square, the symbol of Quebec's protest movement. And the problem with that is – what?
20 JUN 2012: Florida passenger Carol Jean Price claims a TSA agent inappropriately touched her during a screening at Southwest Florida International Airport. In an apparent demonstration of what occurred the 59-year old woman then grabbed a TSA supervisor by the leg and crotch and now faces misdemeanor battery charges.
20 JUN 2012: Soldiers reinforced dikes with sandbags and hundreds of villagers evacuated their mountainous homes as tropical storm Talim nears Taiwan.
20 JUN 2012: Airbus is considering the installation of extra-wide seats to accommodate overweight travellers, but what the wide of girth gain, the skinny-assed lose.
20 JUN 2012: British Airways has launched a controversial marketing campaign on Facebook urging Britons to stay at home during this summer’s London Olympic Games. The ad tells Britons, "Don't Fly. Support Team GB".
20 JUN 2012: Statistics Canada says travel to Canada from abroad rose 0.8 percent to more than 2.1 million trips in April, pushed up by an increased number of American visitors.
20 JUN 2012: Destination Weddings are all the rage and Sandals, who have put their signature touch on weddings and honeymoons for years, are now offering a new twist for couples who want to plan their wedding - their way. And, being Sandals, they chose to announce their new concept “Your Wedding, Your Style” at a unique location - Grand Central Station in New York.
20 JUN 2012: Criticism of Ottawa’s proposed high-tech eavesdropping programme that would allow authorities to listen in on travellers’ conversations at border crossings and airports has caused the plan to be – at least temporarily – shut down.
21 JUN 2012: US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes died in 1935: famous for the pithy opinions he handed down from the bench, he also left behind a wealth of wonderful quotations.
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