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| FLash | Legacy REIT Q3 profit slips to $16.9M from $17.5M despite higher sales
The Legacy Hotels real-estate investment trust reported that its third-quarter net profit slipped to $16.9 million, as increased non-cash accounting charges offset a 10.7 per cent increase in revenue. Revenues increased to $209.3 million in the three months ended Sept. 30, up from $189.0 million a year earlier. Net income declined to $16.9 million, or 13 cents per trust unit, down from $17.5 million, or 14 cents per unit, in the 2003 third quarter. The decline was attributed to a $6.6-million increase in non-cash amortization expenses. |
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| "Smarter than ever to fly with CanJet Airlines" |
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CanJet, Canada's Low-Fare Airline, confirmed today that it will make flying even more affordable with the launch of Weekend Smartsaver Fares this  Saturday, October 23rd.at 12:00 a.m. (AST). Julie N. Gossen, Executive VP & Chief Operating Officer, says, "CanJet has been an innovative industry and price leader and I am very proud to announce that the airline's Weekend Smartsaver Fares will be available for sale on-line at www.canjet.com tomorrow." She went on to state, "Consumer research indicates a huge amount of web surfing and bargain hunting on the Internet occurs on weekends and this is a marvelous opportunity for CanJet to capture their attention with our new and very low Weekend Smartsaver Fares."
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| Increased Oil Costs = Increased Travel Costs for Canadians |
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| Consumers will be facing yet another fuel surcharge imposed by tour operators and airlines this coming Monday, October 25, 2004. Today, tour operators and airlines announced an increase of $25 bringing the total fuel surcharge to $75 roundtrip per passenger for all bookings made as of October 25, 2004 for departure flights November 1, 2004 onward. This charge is applicable to all flights to the Caribbean, Mexico, US, Hawaii, and Europe. Fuel surcharge is subject to GST where applicable. 'Pre-book your flights and vacation packages before Sunday, October 24, 2004 and avoid additional charges, states Jonathan Carroll president of itravel2000.' |
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| Agents Earn Cash with Air Canada Vacation |
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| Air Canada Vacation is calling all agents… Now earn 15% commission on select cruise package bookings including new Montréal round-trip flight to San Juan. Choose from cruise packages aboard Royal Caribbean International’s Adventure of the Seas, Carnival Cruises’ Carnival Destiny or Princess Cruises’ Golden Princess. Valid on new bookings made for departures between Jan. 1 and April 24 2005. What’s more, book these cruise packages by Oct. 27 and upgrade to Executive Class free. Subject to availability. |
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| A new member under the Gama Travel Group |
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| The Atrium Group announced earlier that it now counts a new member in Ontario under the Gama Travel Group consortium, as of October 21st 2004. The agency coordinates are: Vacations Internationale, 55, King Street, Suite 603, St.Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3H5, tel.: 905-938-0123, fax.: 905-938-0118. The Atrium Group asks of wholesalers, airlines, consolidators, hotels or other suppliers to give access to all the advantages negociated with the trium Group for its members to this agency. |
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| Vacationers face $25 hike in fuel surcharges on flights, travel agent says |
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An online travel agency is advising consumers that some Canadian tour operators and airlines are increasing their fuel charges by $25 effective Monday in response to higher crude oil prices. The announcement was made in a news release by Jonathan Carroll, president of Itravel2000, which is based in the Toronto area but operates nationally through its travel web site.
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| FLash | Art museum and coin museum to open in Berlin over the weekend
Two museums are set to open in Berlin over the weekend – one after extensive building to create a home for an important collection of German art, and another offering an early look at a collection featuring coins dating back nearly 3,000 years. The coin collection of the Bodemuseum will reopen to the public after a six-year renovation, giving visitors a look at ``Germany's greatest treasure chest of old money,'' said city museum director Peter-Klaus Schuster. The collection includes ancient Greek coins from 600 BC. The renovation of the entire museum of Byzantine art, which is on Berlin's historic Museum Island, will cost $131 million US and will be finished in 2006. The Berlinische Galerie museum of modern art, photography and architecture features a collection of over 700,000 works by such artists as George Grosz, Otto Dix and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. It opens Saturday in the first space of its own in its 29-year history – a former warehouse that was rebuilt at the cost of $23.6 million. |
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| FLash | Frank Lloyd Wright designed mausoleum finally opens in Buffalo
It may not have been the kind of day Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned for the opening of his Blue Sky Mausoleum when he designed it 76 years ago. At least the moods of those who finally got it built were sunny. Under sputtering, grey skies Thursday, the Wright-designed resting place was unveiled to the public, the work of Buffalo's Forest Lawn Cemetery and a Wright-trained architect who dusted off the late master's designs and undertook construction earlier this year. Twenty-four crypts, each with room for two caskets, are available for sale to the public at prices that are expected to rise as the mausoleum fills. A published report had one crypt selling for $300,000 US. But the $1.2-million mausoleum is meant to be more than a final resting place for Wright aficionados. Tourism officials hope it will give architecture buffs even more reason to visit a city that prides itself on works by Wright, Louis Sullivan and Henry Hobson Richardson. ``We really have the opportunity to establish ourselves as a national destination for people who care about architecture,'' said Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, one of several officials on hand for a splashy unveiling that featured an original play about Wright and the Buffalo soap company executive who commissioned the structure. |
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