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Travel Trends Index: Domestic Business Travel Projected to Outpace Leisure Segment
Louis T Collection | July 5, 2018
WASHINGTON (July 5, 2018)—Travel to and within the U.S. grew 3.4 percent year-over-year in May, according to the U.S. Travel Association's latest Travel Trends Index (TTI)—marking the industry's 101st straight month of overall expansion. However, mounting trade tensions work against America's pursuit of an increased share in the global travel market. Most notable in the TTI is the effect near-historic highs in consumer confidence is having on the domestic travel market. According to the Leading Travel Index, domestic travel is expected to increase by approximately 2.5 percent in the next six months. Leisure trave...
Hotel Doorman Clocks 50 Years of Service at Sri Lanka’s Galle Face Hotel
June 16, 2016
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (June 16, 2016) - It has been 50 years since Mr. Banda lugged his first barrel of beer into the tap room at the Galle Face Hotel. Now - at 71 years old - the loyal employee is still earning his keep at Sri Lanka's oldest and most fabled property. Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage Punchi Banda was barely out of his teens when he began work at the property on July 17, 1966. By then the hotel, which opened in 1864, was already more than 100 years old. In his first ten years, he worked his way from bar laborer to security guard. Forty years ago, he began greeting guests as a doorman, and he's still at it today. "Mr. Banda is more ...
