Travel Weekly, January 28, 2008

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February 01 2008
*Travel Weekly* and *TravelWeekly.com* are the most influential B2B news resources for the travel industry. Via a multimedia portfolio of products, *Travel Weekly* and TravelWeekly.com deliver all the late-breaking news, analysis and research that travel professionals need to succeed. In a rapidly changing and competitive marketplace, Travel Weekly and TravelWeekly.com provide travel professionals with a necessary global perspective through in-depth coverage of every business sector, including airline, car rental, cruise, destination, hotel and tour operator as well as technology, economic and governmental issues. Through its leadership events and key industry alliances, Travel Weekly extends its position as the most influential business publication in the industry. *View Travel Weekly, January 28, 2008* Online** Full & free, powered by Texterity. Click the "Download" button, you can download the entire magazine. Download Travel Weekly, January 28, 2008 PDF format, 22MB, 60Pages. Cover Story: Fortress America The Transportation Security Administration’s job is to thwart terrorism, and it is instituting new programs that aim to do a better job of that. But the TSA must balance that objective with economic, technological and privacy concerns. BY MICHAEL MILLIGAN The question of whether a traveler is able to board an airplane may soon be less a matter of available seats, ticket prices or weather conditions and rest more on government consent. That does not sit well with privacy advocates, many of whom are sounding alarms over the alphabet soup of federal programs introduced since 9/11 to thwart terrorism in the skies and better secure U.S. borders. To cite just one example, new rules set to go into effect this year require that the name of all passengers buying airline tickets be run through a database to determine if they should be allowed to fly. Currently, airlines are responsible for vetting passenger names against the government’s watch lists when flights are booked. Then Transportation Security Administration officers check to ensure that the name on the boarding pass matches the name on the ID presented at the airport security checkpoint. ... *Visit Travel Weekly* Official Website** Travel Weekly: The National Newspaper of the Travel Industry. Bookmark Email This Comments (0) Write comment Name Email Comment smaller \| bigger
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