Travel Weekly, April 6, 2009

Wednesday, 08 April 2009

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On the Cover
4th Annual Travel Editors Roundtable

At the invitation of Travel Weekly Editor in Chief Arnie Weissmann, the top editors of Travel + Leisure, Budget Travel, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Conde Nast Traveler and National Geographic Traveler and the travel editors of USA Today and the New York Times shared their thoughts on the effect of the economy on readers’ attitudes toward travel, how readers respond to “responsible travel” and which covers sell the best at the newsstand.

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NEWS
6 Tough talk at TravelCom
Industry exec sees consolidation among airlines, OTAs on horizon
8 Mexico fights back
Tourism board takes message of safety to the Web, U.S.
10 Family time
Travel Weekly’s next Virtual Summit focuses on family travel and summer bargains
14 A new course for Silversea
Top sales execs exit, new COO comes aboard
16 Costly cancellation
Scrapping one of its two F3 newbuilds cost NCL $128.8M
18 Dreamliner coming true?
Boeing says 787’s first flight is slated for June
19 Pickup line
Collette is offering free door-todoor transfers on packages
90 New desktop goes old school
Legacy GDS commands a feature of Travelogix application
112 The kids are all right
Students are traveling, much to delight of operators in that sector