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Beaches Resorts And Big Bird Team Up For Family Fun

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:16:11 +0000

June 14, 2004 — Beaches Resorts has become the first resort company to partner with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, in an exclusive agreement bringing Sesame Street to Beaches Negril Resort & Spa, Beaches Boscobel Resort & Golf Club, Beaches Sandy Bay and Beaches Turks & Caicos Resort & Spa.

Beginning this September and continuing through next year, Beaches Resorts will host daily appearances by characters including Elmo, Zoe, Cookie Monster and Grover to educate and entertain young families; on-site Sesame Street-themed events including character dining, special story times and fun activities from learning to dance with Zoe to getting global with Grover.

Outfitted activity centers will adorn the resorts and parenting seminars developed by Sesame Workshop, creators of Sesame Street will give parents of pre-schoolers tips for keeping kids healthy, happy and interested.

More information and special promotions surrounding this new and exciting relationship are available by contacting Kathy Lazor at Just Travel in Clifton, NJ - 1-800-926-9279 or by visiting www.justtravelonline.com.

Start of New Tourist Information Service for the Cotswolds

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:10:27 +0000

March 24, 2004 — The Broadway based company Cotswolds.Info, one of the largest Internet resource providers for the Cotswolds region, has started a Tourist Information Service with 12 hours per day telephone Help Line operating 7 days a week.

The Managing Director, Richard Pinder, started the company 2 years ago based in Broadway, says that the very popular website, www.cotswolds.info, is now achieving over 1000 visitors per day and increasingly telephone calls from all over the world are being received from tourists requiring assistance with their holiday plans and itineraries.

He says that in view of a cloud hanging over the continuation of visitors information centres and specifically at Moreton-in-Marsh, Stow-on-the-Wold and Bourton-on-the-Water and in addition to Gloucestershire now being part of the English Tourism Council South West Tourist Board instead of the Heart of England are all factors that show a need for the strengthening of the ‘Cotswolds’ brand name and the continued provision of high quality tourist information services.

Cotswolds.Info will now provide a free 12 hour telephone Help Line operating 7 Days a week in addition to its popular Travel Assistant Service where tourists can request Touring Itineraries specially tailored to their personal needs at nominal costs.

Richard is also a very keen conservationist and this reflects in the comprehensive information on the website to avoid the production of brochures and so minimizing on the depletion of the world’s resource of trees.

WWW.COTSWOLDS.INFO has been featured on BBC Radio 4, Japanese Television, and the Daily Telegraph. It is top of first page ranked with all the leading Internet search engines and has been a ‘pick of the week’ with Yahoo. For the search term ‘cotswolds information’ www.cotswolds.info is No.1 with Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

In addition Cotswolds.Info provides a Free Help Service to all Cotswold based companies wanting assistance with Internet Marketing through their sister website WWW.COTSWOLD.BIZ.

Contact details:- Richard Pinder, Cotswolds.Info, Windrush House, Station Road, Broadway, Worcestershire, WR12 7DE. Tel No. 01386 853577 Fax 01386 853790 E-Mail webmaster@cotswolds.info.

Walk back In Time With New Ernest Hemingway Key West Walking Tour

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:03:39 +0000

Ft. Lauderdale, FL May 17, 2004–Families, literary buffs, tourists and adventure travelers can walk a mile (or so) in Hemingway?s shoes while exploring the many places around Key West where Ernest Hemingway lived, worked, fished and relaxed. The Ernest Hemingway Travel and Tour Company is pleased to announce the Discovery Walk walking tour, the first in a series of new tours in Key West, Florida.

This guided tour steps back to the 1930s, visits the places, and describes the people Hemingway came to know and love. Guests will view rare photographs, and discover the significance of the Key West era for Hemingway and his writings through information provided directly from immediate family members. As the only officially licensed Hemingway tour in Key West, The Ernest Hemingway Travel and Tour Company Discovery Walk is an experience that is timeless and enduring, like Ernest Hemingway himself.

The Discovery Walk is 90 minutes long and covers 1.5 miles visiting 12 historic sites. The tour is $25 for adults and $18 for children under twelve years.

About The Ernest Hemingway Travel and Tour Company:
The Ernest Hemingway Travel and Tour Company offers a variety of Key West tour and vacation packages perfect for global travelers, families, literary and sporting enthusiasts including the only official Ernest Hemingway Walking Tour offered in Key West, Florida. In addition, the Company has developed licensed Hemingway merchandise that is available at select kiosks and authorized retailers throughout Key West.

Visit the web site at www.ernesthemingwaytours.com or contact The Ernest Hemingway Travel and Tour Company at 422 Fleming Street, Key West, Florida 33040, call 305.293.8773, or e-mail reservations@ernesthemingwaytours.com.

For more information, contact Dana Duquesne at dana@athena-marketing or at 954.610.9669.

Great Deals on Miami or Miami Beach Accommodations - TransWorldNews (press release)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:52:47 +0000

Great Deals on Miami or Miami Beach Accommodations
TransWorldNews (press release), GA - 7 minutes ago
Vacation rentals offer space, privacy and are most of the times considerably more economic than a resort or a hotel room. Vacation Rental directories like …

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Weekend Lodging Availability for Oregon Coast, July 24 - Beach Connection

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:10:38 +0000

Weekend Lodging Availability for Oregon Coast, July 24
Beach Connection, OR - 16 minutes ago
Rogers Inn Vacation Rentals. Several homes open – hosting as many as nine, from $125 to $245 per night. 436 South Downing. Seaside, Oregon. 1-888-717-7367. …

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Grizzly bear attacks woman in Alaska (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:27:43 +0000

AP - A grizzly bear attacked a woman, wrapping its jaws around her head before a guest scared it away.

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NYC tourism officials urge locals to ’staycation’ (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:26:38 +0000

AP - New York City tourism officials are hoping that residents facing rising gas prices and pricey airline fares will choose to vacation at home this summer.

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Northern Lights Mystery Exposed

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:00:30 +0000

The dancing northern lights are caused by magnetic explosions between Earth and the moon.

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Crime, overcrowding concern neighbors of short-term rental … - Marconews

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:52:59 +0000

Crime, overcrowding concern neighbors of short-term rental …
Marconews, FL - 10 minutes ago
Community Development Director Steve Olmsted said he believed vacation rentals were allowed in single family areas. Olmsted cited the city’s comprehensive …

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Crime, overcrowding concern neighbors of short-term rental … - Marco Eagle

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:46:47 +0000

Crime, overcrowding concern neighbors of short-term rental …
Marco Eagle, FL - 31 minutes ago
Community Development Director Steve Olmsted said he believed vacation rentals were allowed in single family areas. Olmsted cited the city’s comprehensive …

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Religious retreats: Head to the Catskills (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:29:29 +0000

AP - At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.

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