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Digital News Report – Carnival has reached a milestone of getting 1 million users to like their Facebook page. Carnival Cruise Lines held a contest that will be ending on July 5, 2011. This sweepstakes got them 300,000 Facebook ‘likes’ in the last two months alone.
Carnival launched their Facebook fan page in 2007. [...]

Digital News Report – Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) announced the start of nonstop flights between Detroit, Michigan, and Beijing, China. This is the third city in China that Delta is servicing from their Detroit location.
During the summer months, Delta will offer 44 weekly flights between Detroit and 6 cities in Asia. The [...]

Digital News Report – According to the non-profit group, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the beaches in the United States have remained contaminated at all time high levels. They recently have released their annual report on the best and worst beaches based on 2010 government data from over 3,000 beaches nationwide for pollution. [...]

Digital News Report- The US Department of State announced a travel warning for US tourists visiting the Philippines. There have been terrorist activity in the Philippines – especially in Sulu Archipelago and the island of Mindanao. Terrorists could also strike in Manila.
The warning said that public areas such as airports, shopping malls, conference [...]

Digital News Report – Princess Cruises announced a new smoking policy, which will prohibit travelers from smoking in their ships’ stateroom cabins and on the balconies. This smoking ban will go into effect on January 15, 2012.
This new smoking restriction expands to more areas than previously enforced on their cruise ships. Jan Swartz, [...]

Digital News Report – The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said today that they proposed that over 30 TSA employees at the Honolulu International Airport (HNL) be removed because they failed to screen checked baggage.
The TSA Administrator John Pistole said that the new Office of Professional Responsibility allows the agency to take appropriate action for [...]

Digital News Report – Cars.com announced that the 2011 Hyundai Elantra was the “Best Value: Price to Pump.”
The Car sales website, looked at five compact cars that were priced under Twenty Thousand and had better than 35 miles per gallon fuel usage. The cars also needed to seat five people. Based [...]

Digital News Report – The Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors Council are holding a sweepstakes to give away a week’s stay at a Beach House rental along with several passes to attractions and activities in the city. The vacation sweepstakes is going on now and entries are being accepted until midnight June 30, [...]

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Digital News Report – Memorial Day weekend is thought of as the unofficial start of summer vacation traveling and that is why California Insurance Commissioner, Dave Jones says vacationers should consider travel insurance. He gives several reasons why travel insurance can be important.
In 2001, there were 657 million long distance summer trips [...]

Digital News Report – Santa Cruz Mission is a historic park, which is maintained by California State Parks. Because of new legislation approved in March to help balance the California budget, Santa Cruz Mission was named as one of 70 parks throughout the state that will be closed by the California State Parks.
The California [...]