Riu Emerald Bay Opening May 2009

Riu Emerald Bay, the 15th RIU resort in Mexico, the 30th in the Americas and Caribbean arena and aboriginal RIU resort in Mazatlán, will accessible up its doors in May 2009. The all-embracing beachfront resort will action 716 rooms, 5 restaurants, 5 bars, two pond pools and three appointment rooms.
Mexico, the top destination for RIU in agreement of arrivals and revenue, is currently home to 14 Riu resorts (7,382 rooms) in Mexico. With the aperture of Riu Emerald Bay, RIU will action 15 hotels with 8,098 rooms, all in Mexico.
Riu Emerald Bay, which is getting complete by RIU, will acceptable groups with their three avant-garde appointment and accident halls: the better measures 240 aboveboard metres and seats 108 people, while the added and third anniversary admeasurement 120 aboveboard metres and bench 48. All the apartment accept sliding panels and can be opened up into one large, 480-square accent room.
Located on La Playa de Bruhas, Riu Emerald Bay will action one cafe dining allowance featuring algid and hot dishes as able-bodied as prepared-to-order dishes. The cafe dining allowance has themed dinners three times a anniversary alms dishes and ball from baddest countries. Reservations can be fabricated at the four a la carte restaurants, which include: "Tabasco" featuring Mexican cuisine, "Bamboo" annihilation Asian dishes and "Las Gaviotas", alms tastes from the acceptable American steakhouse. Snacks and beverages are accessible 24-hours a day and guests can allay their appetite at El Cerro antechamber bar, El Estero lounge bar, sports bar, La Plaza bar, or at Playa Bruha basin bar.
For fun and fitness, Riu Emerald Bay offers a gym, table tennis, bank volleyball, windsurfing, sailing, snorkeling and kayaking equipment. A chargeless anterior scuba assignment is accessible in the ample freeform pool. Kids adore ball daily, a abstracted basin and kids club. Adults adore daytime and black entertainment, reside music and adulatory admission and drinks at Pacha nightclub. Accessible at an added allegation are spa and salon services, billiards, automatic baptize sports, golf and horseback riding.
Each guestroom has an ocean view, balustrade and is complete with a adulatory mini bar with full-size liquor bottles, bathroom, telephone, hairdryer, ac, and digital TV, radio anxiety clock, laptop-size allowance safe, adamant and bed-making board. Baddest apartment can interconnect and bifold bifold apartment with active apartment with daybed beds are accessible on the arena attic with an added bedchamber and bath on the added floor. Triple apartment are aswell available. Junior Suites action beyond balconies and the bathrooms affection a hydromassage bathtub, battery and bidet. Junior Suites aswell accept a lounge breadth with daybed and the TV swivels so guests can watch from the bed, tub or sofa. Senior Suites action all amenities of a Junior apartment additional a bathrobe allowance and a jaccuzzi on the terrace.
For added advice or to book a stay, acquaintance a biking able or appointment www.Riu.com.
About RIU Hotels & Resorts - RIU Hotels & Resorts, a ancestors endemic and operated accommodation company, was founded in 1953 in Mallorca, Spain. Ranked as the 27th better auberge alternation in the apple by Hotels Magazine (2008), the aggregation operates added than 100 hotels common with 29 hotels (15,000 rooms) in the Americas region. They are amid in the Dominican Republic (8), Florida (1), Mexico (14), Jamaica (4), the Bahamas (1) and Aruba (1). In 2009, RIU will accessible a new resort in Mazatlan, Mexico, one in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, two hotels in Tunisia and one in Morocco. Worldwide, RIU Hotels & Resorts employs added than 20,000 humans in 16 countries on three continents, offers added than 37,000 apartment and serves 2.7 actor guests annually. For added advice about RIU Hotels & Resorts appointment www.Riu.com or acquaintance your biking professional. RIU Hotels & Resorts

Earnings

Experience, sales ability, and the admeasurement and area of the bureau actuate the bacon of a biking agent. Median anniversary balance of biking agents were $29,210 in May 2006. The average 50 percent becoming amid $23,020 and $36,920. The everyman 10 percent becoming beneath than $18,100, while the top 10 percent becoming added than $46,270. Median balance in May 2006 for biking agents active in the biking adjustment and catch casework industry were $29,160.
Salaried agents usually adore accepted employer-paid allowances that self-employed agents accept to accommodate for themselves. When traveling for claimed reasons, agents usually get bargain ante for busline and accommodations. In addition, agents sometimes yield “familiarization” trips, at lower amount or no amount to themselves, to apprentice about assorted vacation sites. These allowances generally allure humans to this occupation.
Earnings of biking agents who own their agencies depend mainly on commissions from travel-related bookings and account fees they allegation clients. Generally it takes time to access a acceptable amount of audience to accept able earnings, so it is not abnormal for new self-employed agents to accept low earnings. Established agents may accept lower balance during bread-and-butter downturns.

AAA Launches Online Travel Agency

AAA is out to reinvent the online biking agency, and bygone clearly launched a new and broadcast website with countless appearance not begin anywhere abroad of the web at www.aaa.com. The site, advised for the leisure adventurer who goes by car, is geared against the 88 percent of vacationers who yield to the auto if it’s time to get away.
The website is a all-inclusive abandonment from added online biking agencies which are congenital about the archetypal of acute air biking and is advised to advice motorists artifice a adjustable acreage adventure that can affection as abounding as 20 altered stops. Some different appearance of the TripTik biking artist cover abreast real-time gas appraisement for stations forth a called route, absolute cartage bottleneck advice and alley closures. The website will aswell accommodate alternating breathtaking routes and adeptness to map out routes by alive names rather than addresses for accepted locations such as affair parks, civic parks, universities, airports and sports stadiums.
The new website will even account a trip’s absolute ammunition amount based on the accomplish and archetypal of the user’s car with its Ammunition Amount Calculator feature. The TripTik biking artist aswell provides advisories for winter alley closures at above destinations and provides alternating avenue information.
Users can aswell accomplish changes on the fly to their itinerary, and the website will amend the best avenue to yield automatically. Routes are savable as PDF files or on the AAA.com web site.
For hoteliers and restaurant owners, the new website will affection abundant descriptions of their backdrop and outlets forth with their AAA appraisement information. Website visitors will be able to baddest and book hotels listed forth their avenue with a simple abrasion click.
“We took every befalling with the website re-launch to accommodate added absolute abstracts of affiliate properties,” AAA President and CEO Robert L. Darbelnet told Auberge Interactive. “We accept affluent agreeable for our auberge ally and are accomplishing all we can to facilitate transactions. We set out to accomplish it easier for our auberge ally to get business.”
Darbelnet said the website is not advised as a discounter, so auberge apartment will not be based on a low amount model. To him, that’s not the way to access its affiliate hotels’ allowance sales. “Hotels will get their fair shake,” he said.
Interestingly, the website is not getting advised as a accumulation centermost for the admirable auto club. Rather, Rick Rinner, AAA’s Executive VP of administering and publishing said the website is a business apparatus to accomplish new associates and advice accepted associates plan their biking easier. “We achievement to accomplish abundant agency [on auberge sales] to pay for this. It is not a acquirement apprenticed project. It’s account driven.”
The new AAA.com website is aswell now accessible to the accepted accessible and associates no best accept to ascribe their associates amount to advance the site’s features. Darbelnet said the sign-in action presented an obstacle for its associates and this move will advice addition website traffic.
While planning a trip, active en route, or exploring a destination, travelers can use the TripTik biking artist to acquisition biking account and advice by location. Area descriptions accommodate sightseeing options to breach up the drive while restaurant suggestions forth a called avenue during estimated meal times advice to accomplish affairs over to eat a acceptable meal beneath of a gamble.
There are added than 60,000 AAA Approved and Diamond rated hotels and restaurants, 17,000 attractions, 22,000 events, and 8,000 destinations throughout the United States and Canada included on the site.
This ages AAA active up its 50 millionth member. The boilerplate age of a AAA affiliate is in their 50s. Typically new associates alpha signing up in their 30s already they are affiliated and alpha accepting children. The accumulation was founded in 1902

Job Outlook

Employment of biking agents is accepted to change little through 2016. Biking agents who specialize in a biking destination, blazon of traveler, or approach of busline will accept the best affairs for success.
Employment change. Employment of biking agents is accepted to access by 1 percent, which is advised little or no growth. As spending on biking and tourism backlash from contempo recessionary periods and as added travelers activate demography added alien and customized trips, the demands for the specialized casework offered by biking agents will account the account absent to Internet bookings for simpler itineraries. The affluence of Internet use and the accessible availability of biking and airline websites that acquiesce humans to analysis and plan their own trips, accomplish their own reservations, and acquirement their own tickets will aftereffect in beneath appeal for biking agents for accepted biking arrangements. There will be, however, abounding consumers who still adopt to use a able biking abettor to plan a complete trip; to accord with added circuitous transactions; to ensure reliability; to advance excursions or destinations that ability contrarily be missed; to save time; or, in some cases, to save money. In addition, college projected levels of travel, abnormally from businesses and backward babyish boomers will account the accident of accepted transactions. Furthermore, affluence and specialty biking is accepted to access a allotment of the growing amount of Americans who are gluttonous out alien and different vacations and a growing allotment of biking agents’ business is acclimation and affairs tours for the growing amount of all-embracing visitors.
Job prospects. Applicants for biking abettor jobs should face fair to acceptable job opportunities, depending on one’s abilities and experience. Opportunities should be bigger for agents who specialize in specific destinations, affluence travel, or accurate types of travelers such as indigenous groups or groups with a appropriate absorption or hobby.
The appeal for biking is acute to bread-and-butter downturns and all-embracing political crises, if biking affairs are acceptable to be deferred. Thus job opportunities for biking agents will alter with alteration bread-and-butter and political times. Abounding openings, though, are accepted to action as agents leave for added occupations or retire.

Employment

Travel agents captivated about 101,000 jobs in May 2006 and are begin in every allotment of the country. Nearly two-thirds formed for biking agencies. Another 13 percent were self-employed. The butt formed for bout operators, visitor’s bureaus, catch offices, and added biking arrangers.

Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement

A adulation of biking and ability and activity for advising humans about biking destinations and itineraries are important ancestry for a biking abettor to have. Superb advice and computer abilities are capital for talking with audience and authoritative biking reservations.
Education and training. The minimum claim for those absorbed in acceptable a biking abettor is a top academy authority or equivalent; although abounding biking agencies adopt applicants who accept a academy amount and business or biking experience. Much of the training is provided on the job, a cogent allotment of which consists of apprenticeship on how to use catch systems.
Training specific to acceptable a biking abettor is accessible at the abounding abstruse schools that action full-time biking abettor programs arch to a postsecondary abstruse award. Biking abettor courses aswell are offered in accessible developed apprenticeship programs, online, and in association colleges. These programs advise acceptance about cruise curve and sales techniques and how to use the anxiety systems. They aswell accommodate accepted advice about biking destinations. A few colleges action bachelor’s or master’s degrees in biking and tourism. Some administration adopt agents who accept backgrounds in computer science, geography, communication, adopted languages, or apple history, because these backgrounds beforehand an absolute absorption in biking and ability and advice agents beforehand a affinity with clients. Courses in accounting and business administration aswell are important, abnormally for those who apprehend to administer or alpha their own biking agencies. Continuing apprenticeship is analytical because the affluence of biking advice readily accessible through the Internet and added sources has resulted in a added abreast customer who wants to accord with an able if allotment a biking agent.
Other qualifications. Biking agents accept to be well-organized, accurate, and detail-oriented in adjustment to abridge advice from assorted sources and to plan and adapt their clients’ biking itineraries. Agents aswell accept to be able and affable if ambidextrous with biking assembly and clients. Added adorable abilities cover acceptable autograph and interpersonal abilities and sales abilities.
Personal biking acquaintance is an asset because ability about a city-limits or adopted country about helps access a client’s biking plans. Business acquaintance or training added is important because agents charge to apperceive how to run a business profitably. As the Internet has become an important apparatus for authoritative biking arrangements, added biking agencies use websites to accommodate their casework to clients. This trend has added the accent of computer abilities in this occupation.
Certification and advancement. Some advisers alpha as catch clerks or receptionists in biking agencies. With acquaintance and some academic training, they can yield on greater responsibilities and eventually accept biking abettor duties. In agencies with abounding offices, biking agents may beforehand to busier offices or to appointment administrator or added authoritative position.
Those who alpha their own agencies about accept acquaintance in an accustomed agency. These agents accept to accretion academic approval from suppliers or corporations, such as airlines, address lines, or abuse curve to extend acclaim on anxiety and ensure payment. The Airlines Reporting Corporation and the International Airlines Biking Bureau Network, for example, are the acknowledging bodies for airlines. To accretion approval, an bureau accept to be financially complete and apply at atomic one accomplished administrator or biking agent.
The National Business Biking Association offers three types of designations for accumulated biking professionals—Corporate Biking Expert, Certified Accumulated Biking Executive, and Global Leadership Professional.
Experienced biking agents can yield avant-garde self-study or group-study courses from the Biking Institute, arch to the Certified Biking Counselor designation. The Biking Institute aswell offers business and sales abilities development programs and destination specialist programs, which accommodate abundant ability of regions such as North America, Western Europe, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Rim. With the trend against added specialization, these and added destination specialist courses are added important.

Nature of the Work

Travel agents admonition travelers array through all-inclusive amounts of admonition to admonition them accomplish the best accessible biking arrangements. They action admonition on destinations and accomplish align for transportation, auberge accommodations, car rentals, and tours for their clients. They are aswell the primary antecedent of bookings for a lot of of the above cruise lines. In addition, resorts and specialty biking groups use biking agents to advance biking bales to their clients.
Travel agents are aswell more accepted to apperceive about and be able to admonish travelers about their destinations, such as the acclimate conditions, bounded ordinances and customs, attractions, and exhibitions. For those traveling internationally, agents aswell accommodate admonition on community regulations, appropriate affidavit (passports, visas, and certificates of vaccination), biking advisories, and bill barter rates. In the accident of changes in beat in the average of a trip, biking agents advocate on the traveler’s account to accomplish alternating booking arrangements.
Travel agents use a array of appear and computer-based sources for admonition on abandonment and accession times, fares, superior of auberge accommodations, and accumulation discounts. They may aswell appointment hotels, resorts, and restaurants themselves to appraise the comfort, cleanliness, and the superior of specific hotels and restaurants so that they can abject recommendations on their own adventures or those of colleagues or clients.
Travel agents who primarily plan for bout operators and added biking arrangers may admonition develop, arrange, and advertise the company’s own amalgamation tours and biking services. They may advance these services, application telemarketing, absolute mail, and the Internet. They accomplish presentations to amusing and special-interest groups, align commercial displays, and advance company-sponsored trips to business managers.
Agents face accretion antagonism from biking and airline websites for bargain fares, but travelers still adopt application biking agents who can accommodate customized account and planning for circuitous itineraries to limited or assorted destinations. To allure these travelers, abounding biking agents specialize in specific absorption destinations, biking to assertive regions, or in affairs to accurate demographic groups.
Work environment. Biking agents absorb a lot of of their time abaft a board appointment with clients, commutual paperwork, contacting airlines and hotels to accomplish biking arrangements, and announcement tours. A lot of of their time is spent either on the blast or on the computer researching biking itineraries or afterlight anxiety and biking documents. Agents may be beneath a abundant accord of burden during biking emergencies or if they charge to reschedule absent reservations. Peak vacation times, such as summer and anniversary biking periods, aswell tend to be hectic.
Many agents, abnormally those who are self-employed, frequently plan continued hours. Advanced computer systems and telecommunications networks accomplish it accessible for a growing amount of biking agents to plan at home; however, some agents feel a charge to accept an appointment attendance to allure applicant business.

Resort Travel Stay Aspen Snowmass – Your Online Travel Agency

Delta, Frontier and United accept appointed approved account in Aspen Pitkin County airport (ASE) this winter, 2009. Approximately 150 ceaseless and abutting flights fly account into Aspen/Pitkin County Airport. From the airport, it's alone six afar to Snowmass Village, three afar to Aspen. Abounding abode backdrop action adulatory airport transfers, and taxis and RFTA buses aswell account the airport.
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If you've anytime wondered what the abstruse blueprint is to accessing abundant airline fares, you've just begin the acknowledgment - Resort Travel. Resort Biking is the centralized and online biking bureau of Stay Aspen Snowmass. Our specialized airline experts action committed ability in the airline industry and accommodate abundant deals on airfare to every airport in Colorado. We adviser your catch from alpha to finish, advice you out with delays or cancellations - so you apperceive you're taken affliction of for your absolute trip.
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Resort Travel's relationships and discounted affairs with United Airlines (Colorado's arch air carrier), SkyWest, Delta Air Lines, and Frontier Airlines gives us admission to abounding added options than your archetypal biking agent. We aswell action discounted ante to Denver and Eagle/Vail on Northwest Airlines and Frontier for times if Aspen seats aren't available.
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We accept added seats in Aspen than anytime before. You can fly anon from Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Salt Lake City.
We accept admission to endure bench availability on United Airlines flights. So if added sources appearance a sold-out flight, we may accept availability. Our fares aswell acquiesce biking into one city-limits and acknowledgment from another, acceptance you options to complete your catch if Aspen isn't accessible in both directions.
We specialize in affairs bales that cover distinctively adjourned clandestine fares with the airlines. These fares action added adaptability than acceptable retail fares, and are added affordable, too. Our clandestine fares are about 15% to 20% beneath than appear retail fares. Our clandestine fares are affirmed aloft booking, so we can acquiesce up to seven canicule for you to adjudge afore authoritative a reservation. In fact, beforehand acquirement isn't all-important at all. But if you do book and again affairs change, don't worry. Clandestine fares are refundable beneath a abandoning fee.
Save even added by purchasing your tickets in a package. Our Local Vacation Experts can accommodate aggregate you charge for your next escape to Aspen / Snowmass. Reserve airfare, cars, and auberge rooms, acquirement lift tickets forth with accessories rentals and lessons. Our online biking bureau will do all the plan for you. All you charge to do is appearance up.

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Flying Through Moscow

If you travel a great distance, the chances are that you will have flown at some stage.
In the pursuit of a bargain airfare, budget travellers may find themselves re-routed through Moscow on Aeroflot, and the experience can prove far from user friendly.
The Irish Bar and the Heineken Terrace both wait for your dollars at the airport, while you drown away the hours upon hours with further delays mixed in for good measure. Then what's another round of hours?
If you have all day to kill, a visa can be purchased at the airport for a visit to the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral.
Those waiting overnight for their connection will be given meal vouchers and made to find a place among the sprawling Africans with their washing on the rails -- who may be waiting up to a week for their deportation flights.
Accommodation is possibile, without the need for a visa..... Join the jet-lagged queue at the small opening to the transfer lounge, and you have two choices: The Sheremetyevo, or The Novotel. If you think that, at $46/double (cash only), The Shereymetyevo is a prison, The Novotel, $119/double (credit card accepted), is worse.
At the Sheremetyevo Hotel, the door is locked as you enter the hotel, and only opened when your bus is ready to transfer you to the airport again. At least in this building there is a room where you can eat and drink something (if the girls are in the right mood), and talk to others; they call it a restaurant.
In the Novotel, it is room service only. You are on the second floor, but can not use the restaurant, bar or swimming pool unless you have a visa. A visa to walk around the hotel that would have been like a morgue if it wasn't for the aircrew feeding themselves before handing out the rations to passengers?
Change your mind in the Novotel, and you can not cross the road to the cheaper Sheremetyevo Hotel on foot. You will have to sit in the rear lobby and wait another hour, for another bus to escort you one hundred yards. All the time the airport lights can be seen from the back entrance, while delayed, de-iced, Ilyushins and Tupolevs roar up into snowy clouds. A great sigh of relief from bored passengers on board, I'm sure

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Traders Look To The ECB

The euro recovered this morning after trading at a monthly low of $1.3140 against the dollar, yesterday. Pressures on the euro persist as traders await the final interest rate decision to be announced by the European Central Bank this coming Thursday.

There is uncertainty over the level of rate cuts the bank will announce. Without a significant cut from the European Central Bank the Euro may weaken further, as investors appear to be concerned that the Bank is not doing enough to face the threat of global economic recession.

Traders’ attention will focus today on the retail sales index, providing a clear indication of the results of retail sales during the Christmas Period. Market expectations are extremely low regarding this figure, preventing the strengthening of the US Dollar against other major currencies.

Oil prices increased by 3% during the overnight trading session. Oil is trading around $39.30 US Dollars per barrel. The rise in prices came off of the back of renewed calls in OPEC for production cuts, and the increasing demands for oil in the US due to the cold weather period