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Carnival Fantasy from Mobile offering 4 and 5 day Western Caribbean Cruises. 4 and 5 days start at $269
Carnival Freedom Meditteranean, Greece, and Turkey 12 day Rome October 25, 2008 from: Las Vegas. $2129 San Diego. $2159 San Francisco. $2129
Carnival Splendor Meditteranean, Greece, and Turkey 12 day Rome October 12, 2008 from: Las Vegas. $2199 San Diego. $2229
For more information on specials call Carnival Reservations at 1-800-327-9501 today.

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SUNWING ANNOUNCEMENT:
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Important information and reward points schedule:
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2. In addition to your regular form of payment enter the code IM with your card number and $0 in the Amount Paid field in the guarantee screen. All other fields are to remain blank.
3. You must provide IMAGINE loyalty Mastercard number at the time of booking to be eligible for Reward Points.
Visit www.imagine.trucash.com to register for your IMAGINE card.

Future Vacations is a certified vacations group company
They make it easy for you to book Delta and 17 other airlines. Call 1.800.456.2323
Book via VAXVacationAccess.com, Sabre Vacations, Amadeus AgentNet or Worldspan VacationSelect
Earn up to 15% commission whether you book online or via the phone
They have over 350 of the most popular vacation destinations. Flexible packages,air-inclusive, fly/drive and land only
All the top airlines with 18 partners

Apple Vacations has a ticketing policy change
For contracted/bulk scheduled Air Vacation Packages.
REMINDER: Apple Vacations recently began ticketing
contracted/bulk scheduled airfares at the time of initial
deposit. This change resulted in the following benefits
for your clients:
• Protects your clients against fuel surcharge increases.
• For ticketed reservations, most airlines offer a full refund of the ticket cost or protect passengers on the next available flight when there are schedule changes or cancelled flights.
New Deposit Requirements.
Full cost of the fare is required at time of deposit for contracted/bulk scheduled air.
• This new policy applies to bulk fares for all air carriers except Go Airlines and Sun Country Airlines. We will continue to ticket those carriers’ bulk fares according to the rules of the fare (normally 21 days prior to departure).
• Published Fares for all airlines will continue to ticket per the rules of the fare (normally within 72 hours of booking).
• This change does not apply to contracted scheduled air groups. Groups will continue to be ticketed 35 days prior to departure. In addition, clients purchasing “AV-OK” will be protected
against scheduled air change/cancel fees. Passengers not purchasing “AV-OK” are subject to change and cancel fees once the deposit has been applied to the booking.

FunJet has a great special.
Detroit One Week Sale Runs August 15th through August 21st Hurry these flights won’t last long! Travel now through December 2008 Prices starting as low as $499.99 for a 7night stay at the
All-Inclusive Ocean Maya by H10 on select August through September departures. Must book by August 21st

Make this your “Season for Success” and Score More with Funjet Vacations!
Starting 8.13.08 and running through 12.4.08 is our biggest Fun for Life Incentive of 2008. Earn Yards towards Touchdowns in our football themed incentive, the top three from each division automatically win! Compete within your division for great prizes - 50 inch plasma TVs, Weber Grills, iPods, $250 Gas Cards, trips and more! The initial standings will be placed on Friday August 22nd - sign-up for Fun for Life today and watch for your name! Earn triple the yards when you book Iberostar in-between August 15th and August 28th

Southwest Vacations has Groups announcement
The Southwest Vacations is pleased to announce some modifications and updates to their group department. If you have contacted them recently for a group quote or to book a group, you may have noticed their new quoting and booking process and update forms, as well as some amendments of their group Terms and Conditions.
In addition to the forms and updated processes, Southwest Vacations is pleased to announce online check-in for groups. Passengers must log onto southwestvacations.com and click “Check-In Online”. Here passengers will be able to secure their place in the boarding line (sections A,B, or C). There is no change in the ticket type though – Southwest Vacations group packages still utilize paper tickets. Passengers must turn in their paper tickets for their boarding pass at the airport.
When looking to purchase your next group vacation, please contact one of their Group Travel Specialist directly so that they may personally take care of all your group travel arrangements. They can be reached toll – free by calling (800) 220 – 0833. Their main office hours are Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00am and 8:00pm Eastern Time.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact one of their group travel specialist.

Delux Agent FAM trips to Egypt
From $1,250.00
Depart dates: Nov. 29, 2008 then Jan. 24, 2009 and Apr. 25, 2009
From: FLO-USA 888-435-6872 info@flo-usa.com

Go for Gold’ with Fun Sun
To help celebrate Canada’s success at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, Fun Sun Vacations is going to give away one $250 Peoples Jewellers Gift Card for every Gold Medal won by Canada. Winners will be randomly drawn from all bookings made from Aug. 1 until the business day that the medal is won. Restrictions apply. Bookings made through both www.funsunagent.com and via the call centre at 1-800-938-6786 qualify.

Travel News:
Starwood to open 100th hotel in China Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has marked a milestone in Greater China with the signing of the Sheraton Beijing Dongcheng Hotel, its 100th hotel in the area. Sheraton was the first international hotel chain to enter China when the historic Great Wall Beijing Sheraton Hotel was established in 1985. In September, Starwood will debut its first aloft hotel in China, with the opening of the aloft Beijing, Haidian. Starwood is growing aggressively throughout Asia Pacific with 80 hotels currently under construction. China is fueling growth in the region and more than half of Starwood’s pipeline in Asia Pacific is in Greater China, where the company expects to double its portfolio by 2011. In addition to the 43 hotels Starwood currently operates in China, Starwood has 57 new properties scheduled to open. These include 22 Sheraton hotels, 12 Four Points by Sheraton hotels, eight Westin hotels, five W hotels, four St Regis hotels, three Le Meridien hotels, two aloft hotels and one The Luxury Collection brand hotel. Located in Dongcheng District, Sheraton Beijing Dongcheng Hotel will feature 470 rooms, meeting space, three restaurants and bar, a health club, spa and indoor heated swimming pool.

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IMPORTANT APPLE ONLINE UPDATE
Effective Saturday August 9th, Apple Vacations will upgrade www.myapplevacations.com to display Scheduled Air packages in the same fashion as Charter packages. This new upgrade will eliminate the need to manually add the cost of airfare to the hotel cost in the price breakdown screen.
Additionally, to remain complaint with their scheduled Airline partners, Apple Vacations is no longer able to display the cost of the air portion until the booking is completed. However, to enable you to know the air cost, they have updated their shopping basket. If you have booked a published airfare, simply check the corresponding box and click the “calculate” button. The cost of the published airfare will display in the Calculate Box.
If you have booked a contracted fare, simply check the corresponding boxes of the hotel and the airfare and then click “calculate” button. Subtract the hotel price from the combined price and you will know the cost of the contracted airfare.
If you have any questions regarding the change you can contact Apple. 800-727-3460

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Huntington has a:
BA seat sale to UK Starting on August 12th instead of September 4th!
Fare to London from YVR and YCC - $690
Fare to London from YYZ and YUL - $525
For other UK destinations you can call or email them. www.huntingtontravel.net
Seasonality:
August 12 – September 24 / December 18 – December 23 / March 9 – March 18
Fares will reflect in their system by August 12, 2008

FlyOnline is now offering up to a $50 Bonus in gift cards when you book a reservation online or over the phone. Call for more information.

Huntington has made group bookings a priority since 1973. They are ready to help you succeed in booking your group. Email them groups@huntingtontravel.net

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