Category: Travel

  • Travel photographer shot dead in Africa while filming TV show

    Travel photographer shot dead in Africa while filming TV show

    A Spanish travel photographer and guide was killed in Ethiopia while working on a documentary series for a Chilean TV documentary series. The TV crew were working for Canal 13 via the production company MkZeta and had been filming the Mursi tribe prior to the incident. The tribe was not connected to the attack. Catalan…

  • Travel photographer shot dead in Africa while filming TV show

    Travel photographer shot dead in Africa while filming TV show

    A Spanish travel photographer and guide was killed in Ethiopia while working on a documentary series for a Chilean TV documentary series. The TV crew were working for Canal 13 via the production company MkZeta and had been filming the Mursi tribe prior to the incident. The tribe was not connected to the attack. Catalan…

  • Charlotte Airport workers strike, hold picket lines as holiday travel ramps up

    Charlotte Airport workers strike, hold picket lines as holiday travel ramps up

    CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – A record amount of travel is expected to move through Charlotte Douglas International Airport this Memorial Day holiday weekend. Memorial Day weekend projected to be busiest ever The hustle and bustle will have a backdrop of airport workers striking and picketing for higher wages Thursday morning. Picket lines comprised of…

  • DPS shares travel tips for Memorial Day Weekend

    DPS shares travel tips for Memorial Day Weekend

    Share with friends ATLANTA – The DPS is providing travel safety tips ahead of the busiest summer travel season across Georgia. Release: The Memorial Day holiday weekend kicks-off the beginning of a busy summer travel season across Georgia and the nation.  As motorists begin making travel arrangements, the Department of Public Safety (DPS) reminds drivers…

  • Summer travel season could break records at area airports

    Summer travel season could break records at area airports

    The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority is anticipating a record-setting summer season at its two airports, and is offering the public ways to perhaps ease the stresses involved. Washington Dulles International Airport had a passenger count of 9.5 million during the May-to-August travel period last year, with Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport serving 9 million. Those…

  • RDU Airport expects busiest Memorial Day weekend travel of all time

    If you have a flight from Raleigh-Durham International Airport to travel for Memorial Day, you’ll want to arrive early. RDU says it’s expecting its busiest Memorial Day weekend ever. Long lines were already growing as of 6 a.m. on Thursday, the day which traditionally kicks off Memorial Day travel for millions of people around the…

  • Record amount of people expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend, AAA Texas says

    Record amount of people expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend, AAA Texas says

    SAN ANTONIO – AAA Texas says travel this upcoming Memorial Day Weekend is expected to break records. Texas is expected to have 3.6 million travelers over the Memorial Day holiday, a 4.2% increase over last year, according to AAA. Recommended Videos Some of the top destinations in our state include cities along the Gulf Coast,…

  • Lahaina Business Owners Dive Into Busy Travel Season

    Lahaina Business Owners Dive Into Busy Travel Season

    Additional opportunities have arisen in recent weeks as they navigate a new normal after the Aug. 8 fires. Late April brought the start of a busy travel season for U‘i Kahue-Cabanting and Mario Siatris, who’ve committed to teaching a half-dozen Hawaiian cultural workshops on the mainland through July. The workshops aren’t money-makers. But Maui Grown…

  • Traveling Memorial Day weekend? Here’s how to avoid traffic

    Traveling Memorial Day weekend? Here’s how to avoid traffic

    <!–> GasBuddy head of petroleum analysis Patrick De Haan shares his forecast for gas prices ahead of busy summer travel. Travel times over the three-day holiday weekend are expected to be up to 90% longer than normal, INRIX transportation analyst Bob Pishue warned.  This year, road trips are projected to set a new record with…

  • Chances are Memorial Day travel jams will be much worse this year than last

    Chances are Memorial Day travel jams will be much worse this year than last

    (AP) – You didn’t think summer travel would be easy, did you? Highways and airports are likely to be jammed the next few days as Americans head out for Memorial Day weekend getaways and then return home. AAA predicts this will be the busiest start-of-summer weekend in nearly 20 years, with 43.8 million people expected…