In the News

Southwest Airlines adopts mobile boarding pass program. Starting last year as a test in Austin Texas they have branched out to iPhone and Android devices for security checkpoints and aircraft boarding at all U.S. airports where Southwest flies.

AMA Waterways adds new ship to Mekong.  Introducing a new vessel, the 124 passenger AmaDara on the Mekong River in 2015 will join sister ship, the AmaLotus.  The inaugural is slated for Aug. 17, 2015, a 16-day river cruise and land tour through Vietnam and Cambodia.

On the move:  For the last several years travelers have been able to pick and choose their dates, resorts, mode of travel and such at the last minute. Not anymore! Travel by cruise ship is just one example. The new River Cruising in Europe is so popular that we are now booking into 2016 just to find the perfect cabin and date.  Even Caribbean cruises are booking into 2015 now and some inventory is low. People are ready to go and they are going! Family and Group tours/cruises are going wild and All Inclusive resorts are reporting record bookings.

Great Plains Foundation, an African conservation company that operates upscale tourist camps in Botswana and Kenya, will for a limited time donate 100% of customer payments for stays at selected camps to help fund a program to remove rhinos form poaching hot zones.