Uganda Diary

"West Wing" Actress and IMC volunteer, Melissa Fitzgerald, shows us some of International Medical Corps's work in Kitgum, Uganda.

Overheard On a Flight out of LaGuardia

Overworked Flight Attendant:
"In the event of a loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will be released from the overhead above your seat. After the screaming subsides, please place the oxygen mask around your nose and mouth. If you are traveling with a child or an adult who is acting like a child, place your mask on first before attempting to help put theirs on."

Australia Asks: "Where The Bloody Hell Are You?"

AUSTRALIA'S $180 million "Where The Bloody Hell Are You?" tourist promotion is part of a dud run for Australia in the world travel market, according to industry players.

"We need to do something to address it and in a concrete way or, quite seriously, I could be driving trucks in a couple of years," said John Milanese, whose Melbourne-based Mr John Tours takes Japanese tourists down the Great Ocean Road and to see Phillip Island penguins.

In Tokyo, the sales manager of Qantas Holidays Japan, Brad Crump, said that the number of travellers to Australia in August — traditionally the peak month for the Japan market — was "way down" on previous years.
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Groups Seeks to End Cuba Travel Ban

HAVANA - U.S. law blocks most travel to communist-led Cuba, but the Caribbean nation will be represented next week at an international travel show in Orlando.

A U.S.-based group known as the Travel Industry Committee on Cuba will promote travel and business links with the neighboring island at a convention Sunday through Tuesday, spearheaded by the American Society of Travel Agents, the world's biggest travel agent group.
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