Virginia Beach, Va February 12, 2004-??”RoomSaver.com (www.RoomSaver.com), the Web’s most comprehensive source for hotel discounts and a division of Trader Publishing Company, today announced a new ???Trip Clip??� product, which is an advertisement that includes dynamic, Flash-based clips with music and moving text. Hoteliers can personalize their Trip Clip with their property’s location, features, amenities and photographs.

RoomSaver.com launched this product because travelers are seeking more information about hotels online making reservations through the Internet. RoomSaver.com wants to serve them better than the other leading online hotel Web sites. The Trip Clip gives RoomSaver.com an edge over other leading Web sites, as the Trip Clip is an unprecedented product and unique service for RoomSaver.com, our clients and loyal visitors.

The Trip Clip allows hoteliers to reach value-conscious travelers with a message unique to their property. Hoteliers can display their property’s most outstanding features in a multimedia format. A Trip Clip icon is located in the property’s online listing, which will display up to 10 photographs of colorful, dynamic text and photographs and music clips for each theme. Hoteliers can choose from three different themes including ???harmony,??� ???big city??� and ???tranquility.??� To view a sample Trip Clip, visit http://www.roomsaver.com/trip-clip/10858.

???We are excited to offer this new and innovative product for our clients and users,??� said RoomSaver.com Business Development Manager, Brad Petersen. ???Not only does it provide our users with a quick tour of the property, but this presentation is another critical tool to drive more traffic to our clients’ hotels.??�

Designed to be the Internet resource for value-conscious travelers, RoomSaver.com provides travelers a user-friendly way to browse over 9,000 listings and easily navigate the detailed results. Additionally, travelers can join the Travel Club and receive weekly e-newsletters advising them of the week’s lodging specials as well as save coupons to their online coupon book from session to session and throughout their membership.

Headquartered in Virginia Beach, Va., RoomSaver.com is a leading provider of online hotel coupons. As a division of Trader Publishing Company and part of Trader’s family of over 20 Web sites, RoomSaver.com provides a comprehensive hotel coupon database for travelers while serving as a convenient and effective advertising forum for hoteliers and affiliate travel businesses. For more information about RoomSaver.com, call toll-free 800.766.6728 or visit www.RoomSaver.com.

The idea of getting paid to travel appeals to many people. The problem is that we want to have time to take in the sights, relax and enjoy our travels. Travel nursing is similar in some ways to driving a truck. You may get to see some incredible sunsets and view awesome scenery, but youre seldom going to have the opportunity to stop and smell the roses, visit those tourists destinations and take photos (unless you snap them from the window of a moving vehicle). In many cases, those panoramic views will be nothing more than spots from an airplane window.

So whats all the fuss about travel nursing? There are some positive points. You DO get to travel. While its not like a vacation, how many people do you know who have seen the world? Even getting to view Paris, France from a moving vehicle is better than never having seen it at all. And while there are those cases that require every bit of your time and attention, many patients who travel are stable enough to do so. They may also be up for enjoying at least some of the trip and to share the memories of those views – even if theyre all from the inside of a moving vehicle.

Once you get away from the fact that youre traveling and that you may not be seeing as much as youd like, there are some real benefits to traveling nursing. Pay is one of the big benefits. Many companies advertise pay from $25 to $75 per hour, depending on the demands on your time, the amount of experience you can offer and the length of the trip. On the downside, be sure that the money is sufficient. $25 an hour isnt much if youre working three hours and then spending the night waiting for your next assignment.

Aside from the tangible benefits, theres always that goal that health care professionals have to help people in need. Travel nurses become responsible for their patients during a trip. Those trips are sometimes long, difficult journeys. During that time, the travel nurse can literally be the difference between life and death for critically ill patients. But remember that those patients and their families typically have some driving reason for the trip. Perhaps its someone who fell ill during a vacation in another country. Maybe its an opportunity for a better treatment facility or one closer to friends and family. Whatever the purpose, the trip is usually a step toward the hope of a better life. As a travel nurse, you can be part of that.

Theres no doubt that travel nursing provides an excellent opportunity for many, though its not for everyone. If you enter this profession knowing all the facts, you may find that travel nursing is exactly the career move youve been looking for.

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Millions of dedicated travelers dream about developing a
freelance travel writing career that will allow them to escape
to far off lands and bask on exotic beaches for unending days of
research – all at the expense of a travel magazine and
supportive editor.

Yet most people dont realize that the dream of becoming a
freelance travel writer is actually quite attainable. All it
takes to become a freelance travel writer is a flexible
schedule, crafty pen and the persistence to keep at it.

Even The Most Inexperienced Writer Can Become a Full-Time
Freelance Travel Writer:

First, if you want to become a travel writer, its a
great idea to find a travel magazine, Web log, Web site or
newspaper thats willing to publish your work. Start by writing
a proposal letter to the editor or search on freelance writing
forums for publications that require the services of a travel
writer. Once you have a confirmation that your travel article
will be accepted for publication, youre ready to take the next
step.

Next, plan your trip. Its a good idea to start small.
Look around for a conservative weekend getaway. In the
beginning, you will probably only be able to work on the
weekends as a freelance travel writer anyway while you build
your portfolio into one suitable for a fulltime freelance writer.

While on your trip, take careful notes about street names,
restaurants, food, the people you meet and the general
atmosphere. Details are especially nice ways to personalize a
vacation spot – so write down everything. Take along your
camera. You may not be a freelance photographer hopeful, but
many publications like to take a look at photos youve taken for
possible publication along with your article (many publications
will pay for your photo as well!)

Once you have returned from your vacation, compose an article
and submit it to the publication. Its that simple!

Now heres the best part: Did you know that you can benefit
from a tax write-off when you become a travel writer? Its
simple: as long as you can prove that you went on your trip for
the purpose of writing a travel article, youre legitimate in
the eyes of the IRS. Note: You can retroactively apply vacation
expenses as long as you have written an article about a
particular location and the article has been published. If you
retroactively write an article and it does not get published,
you cannot write your vacation off as a business expense. You
get paid for your work and benefit from tax write-off as well.

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This is the candid and illuminating story of how Kevin Warren turned his travel passions into substantial profits, fun and adventure.
Back in august of 1970, the Warren brothers Kevin, Steve and Tim moved with their family from Chicago, Illinois to San Diego, California. As teenagers they grew up surfing, riding dirt bikes, camping, flying hang gliding and ultra-light airplanes, traveling to the backcountry and nearby Baja, Mexico.
It’s true.
They were all energetic “slightly challenged youths”.
One of the schools they attended was the Athenian School in N. California; a college prep, coed boarding school with an emphasis on academics and the outdoors. Their first rafting trips, snow camping, backpacking trips, and x-country skiing trips, as well as extreme skateboarding, building a bamboo hang glider out of bamboo, secret beer-making experiments under the bed and many other adventures, all happened at Athenian.
Part of their graduation requirements was a 28-day survival and outdoors skills “outward bound-type” training in the high Sierra Nevada Mountains.
It was fantastic!
And yes, between adventures, they studied too.
It was clear. They loved the outdoors, flying, adventure and novel business adventures?
Fortunately, None of them died, was not expelled and they eventually graduated from Athenian.
Back in San Diego, being adventurous, young and entrepreneurial, Kevin started a business towing aerial advertising banners low and slow along the beaches of North County San Diego with our ultralight airplane around 1978.
He was getting $175 for 1/2 hour to pay for our hobby. How cool, getting paid for what he loved to do!
In the early 80′s Kevin’s passion for flying continued. He wanted to fly for the airlines and started flying buddies into remote areas of Baja, Mexico to surf, build his flying hours and share the cost. He started getting calls from people he never met with questions like this,
“My buddy Jeff flew into Baja and went surfing with you. Sounds fantastic! How can I go too?”
Kevin thought, “Could I get paid to do some of the things I most love; surfing, flying and travel?”
———The Answer Was a Big YES ———
What started as a hobby, turned into a life changing tourism career for him with the launch of Baja AirVentures in 1985. Kevin’s early trips focused on 4-day fly-in surfing expeditions into remote dirt strips on Baja’s isolated Pacific coast. Empty and perfect waves, pristine nature, catered camping – just what mostly professional men who loved to surf wanted.
Kevin’s Baja surfing tour company grew into a diversified and profitable multi-sport soft Eco-Adventure Baja travel company, by asking his guests what they wanted in their active vacations,
Many tourism professionals Kevin has met over the last 15 plus years – or those wanting to get into tourism – also seek to combine their passion for travel, sport, adventure, the outdoors and make good money too.
Does this sound at all like you?
Or something you are dreaming of??
Kevin’s tourism business and income have earned him two eco-adventure resorts in Baja, Mexico, a new big 5-bedroom house in San Diego, 4 airplanes, a lovely wife and three beautiful daughters.
Kevin’s material success is only a small part of the more valuable rewards of: appreciating life, living your dreams and experiencing joy daily in your tourism profession.
Success and quality of life – however you define it – is what you can have as tourism professional if you take the right steps.
In the second part of this series and upcoming articles, look for more real-life tourism case studies, best practices and resources that have absolutely increased the bottom line and quality of life for Kevin and so many tourism projects around the world.
The travel business has been good to Kevin and sharing these articles and tips is a way to give back to the industry.
Starting, promoting and running any type of tourism business or destination – takes a lot of time and work. So all articles, tips, resources and news – will be in short “readers digest” versions.
Upcoming Tourism Business Categories and Resources
Future EzineArticles.com contributions will include topics on:
–Sales
–Marketing
–E-marketing
—-Search engine Optimization
—-Pay per Click Advertising
—-E-mail newsletters and databases
–Advertising
–Management
–Home-based travel agencies
–Operations
–Development
–Finance
–Risk management
–Communications
–Strategic planning
–Media and media relations
–Working with suppliers
–Trade show marketing and much more.
Not only will you learn what business and marketing strategies work, but how-to avoid critical mistakes that spell disaster.
Tim Warren, Kevin’s brother is the author of Tourism Marketing Success: a step by step guide guaranteed to help you standout from the crowd and sell more travel in your trade show booth, website, advertising, brochure and more. Tim’s best travel business education has been from helping his brother Kevin profitable grow his Baja Eco-Adventure Resorts. Since1994, business and marketing resources exclusively for tourism and hospitality professionals and trade associations. If you have any travel business and tourism marketing question, go to Ask Tourism Tim and you can ask and get answers to your top questions and concerns. http://adventurebizsuccess.com/ask1_tourism_tim.htm
For FREE travel marketing and business articles and the free mini-course; “The 10 Commandments of Travel Business Success” visit http://www.adventurebizsuccess.com/tourismmarketingbook.php

You’ve just been granted an on-site interview in another town.
Hurray! This means you’ll be traveling to an employer’s location
so that they can further evaluate you for a specific job
position.

Before you make any travel arrangements, it’s a good idea to
discuss who will be paying for your trip – you or the employer.
If you’re paying, find out if you’ll be reimbursed. It’s a good
idea to save all your receipts from the trip if you’re being
reimbursed for expenses.

Here’s some things to keep in mind when traveling to interviews:

1) Let the employer know immediately if you have to cancel the
trip or make any changes to your visit.

2) Unless the employer is reserving your flight and hotel room,
you will need a way to make reservations in advance.

3) Get all directions and transportation instructions to your
destination ahead of time.

4) Factor in your commute time when planning to leave for the
interview destination. How long will it take you to get there in
traffic?

5) Avoid late airplane flights. These can be cancelled or
delayed at a moment’s notice.

6) Bring your interview clothes with you on the plane – just in
case your checked luggage is lost or delayed.

7) It’s okay to wear casual clothes while traveling if there is
no employer representative waiting to meet you when you arrive.
When you check into the hotel, ask the clerk if there are any
messages or information for you from the employer.

9) Schedule a morning wake up call with the hotel so you don’t
oversleep. Or, bring a travel alarm clock.

10) Bring extra copies of resumes, recommendation letters,
transcripts, contact information, etc.

News Release

SAFE TRAVEL AND WHERE TO FIND IT

After 9/11, many people wonder if it’s safe to fly to Europe or Asia, or even explore the United States. Travel expert Evelyn Kaye says it is, and she knows the best way to enjoy safe and interesting vacations.

???Travel to new places with an expert as a guide and learn something about the country and culture you’re visiting??

Traveling on business today is much different than it was even a few years ago. You must know the essentials now, follow them, and you will make your business trip as painless as possible.
Business Travel Preparations
Wherever you are going on a business trip, you must remember it begins with your preparation. This can be weeks ahead of the trip itself, but you must prepare.
Professional Preparation
Make a professional checklist of what you need to accomplish, by when, and to whom.
If there will be some professional socializing (diners, parties, etc.) you must decide on what you will be wearing, where you will go, and who you will be with.
In addition to you normal business preparations, you must prepare for all eventualities while away from your office and home.
Investigation into Destination Cities
Rules are changing by the minute, and some airlines and some airports have different rules and restrictions than others. You must research well your destination airport and city.
If you are going by air, you have different check-in minimum times, different carry-on allowances and restrictions, and also transport to/from airports.
A bit of investigation will save you trouble, time, and heartache in many cases.
Basic Wardrobe
Do not carry a lot of clothing. You need your basic wardrobe and some leisure items (sports maybe), but make sure that it’s consistent with the local weather conditions, and custom.
Fly Light Fly Right
The days of full carry-on baggage are coming to an end. Some airlines will permit the pilots case in business class, some wont, so be prepared to check your luggage.
Whatever it is, the lighter your fly the better. Chances are you have a notebook computer and accessories, and your business bag, so you will add this to the pre and post flight hand carry items.
If you are flying with a heavy load, you will become tired very quickly, you will be burdened with this extra weight, and chances are you will not need the half of it wherever you are going. Plan ahead.
Airport and Flight Security
Airport security is a necessary evil for the business traveler.
It slows down the whole process, and has modified what you can do, when and where you can do it, and what you can take with you on board (and work with on board).
So wear shoes that come on and off easily, and belts that do the same, or don’t wear a belt.
Don’t keep anything on your person that will slow down the process, including a lot of gadgets. Pack them away if possible, or leave them behind.
Have your identification and tickets at the ready to show when challenged to do so.
In many American airports, even the slightest event can become an issue.
Therefore refrain from talking to anyone except the workers or airline employees, do not joke about anything, and do not leave your hand luggage unattended.
Business travel was never easy, but now it is becoming tedious. So prepare for it, and make the best out of it.
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Business Travel Safety

by BB Lee (C)2001

The National Crime Commission reports that each year thousands of innocent business travelers fall victim to the rising crime rate.

It’s time to stand up! Don’t be just another crime statistic or willing victim. Learn important ways to protect yourself while traveling in unfamiliar or dangerous areas.

Easy With The Luggage:

Thieves look for business travelers loaded down with excess baggage? This makes you a very easy target in their shifty eyes. Why? Travelers struggling with excess luggage are less likely to notice one or two missing pieces until it’s too late.

Label Your Stuff:

Label each piece of your luggage. List the items in each bag. Carry snapshots of your luggage for quick identification. Lock all luggage securely. This will discourage spur of the moment suitcase or baggage snatchers.

Keep Your Purse Close…Your Money Closer: Hold your purse close to your body. Wrap your purse over one shoulder, across your body and under the other arm. Never swing your purse loosely from a wrist or shoulder. A thief could easily catch the strap and drag you screaming across the crowded room, a terminal, airport, or empty garage. Invest in a fanny pack, money pouch or belt if you travel often.

Hold Your Head High:

Walk with confidence. Make eye contact with the people that are around you. This is especially important for women traveling alone. Studies show women do not look people in the eyes as often as the average man does. Thieves see this as passive behavior. In other words an easy target. One who will not put up a fight.

If It Ain’t Important Leave It: Do you really need your social security card, voter registration card, department store cards on a business trip? If thieves get their sticky hands on those important personal items they could easily forge papers and steal your identity.

Foreign Travel:

Photocopy all your important papers, including your passport, and your tickets before you leave home. Make several copies of each important paper. Keep an extra copy in a secret compartment or in a belt pouch. Store the other copies in the hotel safe. So if your originals are stolen you will have plenty copies on hand.

Special Precautions For Women Travelers: Women, when they travel, should always wear a plain cheap wedding band – this will discourage unwanted attention from strange males. Thieves often look for unmarried women traveling alone, they consider them easy targets.

Diamonds Aren’t A Travelers Best Friend: Leave your expensive rings, watches, bracelets, necklaces at home. Wearing expensive items is like waving a red flag at a charging bull.

Alarms:

Purchase a pocket size travel alarm with a strap you can hang across your door knob. A loud alarm sounds instantly if someone jiggles the door knob. These alarms are very inexpensive but a good item to have for the safety concerned traveler.

Question Hotel Personnel:

Question hotel personnel about fire and emergency exits. And be sure to ask them about crime in the neighborhood, which areas to avoid, they should know the area better than you and be willing to help you to make your stay safe. Also question them about local money exchange rates, and cab fares around town. This will help save you from being taken advantage of by unscrupulous shop owners or cabbies.

Stay In Contact:

Carry a fully charged cellular telephone with you when you go on your business travels. Keep it on when you are out in unfamiliar territory. Make sure friends, family, business associates have your cell phone number. If a dangerous situation occurs help could be just a call away.

Tell A Friend:

Tell a friend or family member when you are going on a business trip alone. Make sure your business partner or staff know your agenda. Tell them where you are staying, how long you will stay. What meetings you

are scheduled for. Addresses, names, dates, and so forth. This is a very important detail if an emergency occurs and you need to be contacted or you are in a emergency situation and need help.

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