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Tips on booking holiday travel, packing and avoiding airport stress.

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The University of New Hampshire announces a new quarterly economic index that will help the lodging industry conduct short- and long-range economic planning.

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Traditionally high passenger volumes and the possibilities of bad weather are realities for holiday travel. Travelers on U.S. airlines usually find that ticket prices and overall costs are higher. Dean Headley, co-author of the national Airline Quality Rating from Wichita State University, says while industry airline performance quality has improved each year since 2007, the travel experience has become more stressful and uncertain, especially around the end-of-the-year holidays.

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A study of widely used complimentary offers at Atlantic City casinos finds that common giveaways such as free rooms and dining credits are less profitable – and lead to unhealthy competition among casinos – than alternative comps such as free travel and parking.

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While steel, coal and other industries no longer play the role they once did, they will always define Pennsylvania’s history. As the post-industrial economy has taken over, many monuments to this other era remain as a way to attract tourists and relive the past. To delve deeper into our heritage and discover how it is remembered today, Temple University professor Carolyn Kitch drove approximately 16,000 miles to visit more than 200 museums, coal mines, factory tours, festivals, worker memorials, iron furnace remains and tourist trains throughout Pennsylvania over three years.

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Hotels looking to attract “green” consumers must not only practice sustainable business practices and be committed to sustainability as an environmental goal but should effectively communicate those practices to green consumers who exhibit specific behavior patterns and characteristics when compared with consumers in general, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics.

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A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health outlines steps to address the implementation gap in low- and middle-income countries.

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Alan S. Abrahams and Cliff T. Ragsdale of the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business have devised a system for travelers to receive all the vaccinations they need in a way that ensures the optimum protection efficiently and as inexpensiviely as possible.

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Nearly 5 billion was absorbed by the non-riding public due to lack of helmet laws, and Michigan is now the 31st state to abandon helmet laws. Loyola trauma surgeon offers grim statistics on increase in fatalities, crashes when helmet laws are not in force.

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Two years after leading a statewide academic task force to help the Gulf Coast region respond to the devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Florida State University researchers continue to study the longer-term environmental and economic consequences of the disaster.

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University of Arkansas assistant professor Godwin-Charles Ogbeide learned that consumers are more inclined to stay in hotels that take steps toward environmental sustainability.

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Southern California cities are now significantly more multiracial than they were 20 years ago, according to a new USC analysis released Thursday. The percentage of multiracial cities in the five-county area climbed from 51.2 percent to 61.5 percent from 1990 to 2010, according to the report by USC’s Population Dynamics Research Group.

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A Kansas State University doctoral student is studying the rich -- although sometimes hidden -- beauty of prairie landscapes. It's an abstract, yet important, field of study that may help develop new ways to promote and celebrate prairie tourism, history and geography.

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Bhutan—the last nation in the world to receive television—has asked Ithaca College to help its citizens become more media literate.

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Talking on a cell phone or texting while walking may seem natural and easy, but it could be dangerous and result in walking errors and interfere with memory recall. Researchers at Stony Brook University found this to be the case in a study of young people walking and using their cell phones. The study is reported in the online edition of Gait & Posture.

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A Kansas State University professor is studying ways that anti-trafficking groups are fighting the global issue of human trafficking. Nadia Shapkina, assistant professor of sociology, is looking at the geography, history and economic impact of sex trafficking to understand how forms of it are changing.

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Looking to spend the holiday season in a sunny locale that is stress-free and easy on your pocketbook? A Ryerson University expert offers these holiday travel tips that will help you enjoy a relaxing vacation without maxing out your credit cards