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TRO TravelGram - Dec 18

12-20-2009

Friday, December 18

Destinations
Belize Essentials
With its combination of magnificent Mayan ruins, white sand beaches, lush rain forests, and some of the best diving and snorkeling in the Caribbean, the English-speaking nation of Belize is proof that great things come in small packages...
IndependentTraveler.com

Touring London's Fitzrovia Neighborhood
Travel + Leisure charts the new and classic spots of England's capital–from restaurants and hotels to shops, and more. ...
Travel and Leisure

36 Hours in Kuala Lumpur
With its looming skyscrapers, stellar cuisine and thumping night life, the Malaysian capital has emerged as one of Southeast Asia's most alluring metropolises...
New York Times

Grenada's beaches still make history
The recreational prospects of this island of 100,000, about 100 miles northeast of Venezuela are enticing...
USA Today

Tours and Activities
Rock Art Redefines 'Ancient'
The Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake is home to a complex of canyons holding the greatest concentration of ancient rock art in the Western Hemisphere...
New York Times

10 great places to do some sleuthing
Otto Penzler, owner of New York's Mysterious Bookshop and editor of The Best American Mystery Stories 2009, shares some spots to go undercover...
USA Today

Cruise
Silversea Takes Delivery of Silver Spirit
Silversea officially took delivery of its new, ultra luxury, 540-passenger Silver Spirit. And the ship left the Fincantieri shipyard in Ancona, Italy, today, headed to Monaco, where it will do a preview sailing for media and agents on Sunday...
USA Today

Even the lobby will be designer on Oceania Cruises' next cruise ship
The 1,258-passenger Marina, debuting in early 2011, will hearken back to the heyday of ocean liner travel with a spare-no-expense Grand Staircase designed by Lalique...
USA Today

Transportation
British Airways wins court order barring strike
Britain's High Court delivered an early Christmas present to around one million travelers on Thursday by granting British Airways an emergency injunction to stop a 12-day strike by its cabin crews...
Yahoo Travel News

Air France crash may lead to new safety rules
New airline safety standards may be required after the crash of Air France Flight 447 cast doubt on the reliability of speed-measuring equipment in difficult, stormy conditions, French aviation investigators said Thursday...
Yahoo Travel News

U.S. airlines remove advance purchase rules for holiday travel
With travel demand still sluggish, many U.S. airlines are waiving the advance purchase rules for most domestic destinations this holiday season, according to Bestfares.com CEO Tom Parsons...
USA Today

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