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Lower fares than normal are now available on Sun Country for late spring and summer travel through Aug. 28, 2013. Lowest fares are available for Tuesday/Wednesday travel with higher sale fares for Monday through Saturday travel. Tickets require a 14-day advance purchase and must be booked by 11:59pm CT on May 23, 2013.

The latest sales from Southwest and AirTran are valid for Spring and Fall travel. The lowest fares can be found on late summer/fall dates between Aug. 26 - Dec. 18, 2013 for travel any day except Friday & Sunday. Some routes are only slightly higher in price for late spring/early summer dates through Jun. 26, 2013 with …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's tempting to say Daft Punk has gone Hollywood.

PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius's earnings from tourism dropped 12.4 percent from a year earlier to 12.06 billion rupees in the first three months of this year as the weak economic environment in Europe hurt visitors' spending. Statistics Mauritius cut its forecast for visitor arrivals this year to 990,000 from a previous …

By Vidya Ranganathan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - There is a new gold rush in the Asia-Pacific: rising incomes and consumer spending by Asia's fast-growing middle classes that is generating unprecedented opportunities for multinational firms. If western firms recognize those opportunities in markets for consumer and luxury goods, …

By Donny Kwok and Lavinia Mo HONG KONG (Reuters) - Armed with empty suitcases and same-day return tickets, an army of mainland Chinese is descending on suburban outlet shopping malls and international fashion chains in Hong Kong, turning cheap into the new chic as luxury falls out of favor. Wealthy Chinese used to stop …

By Praveen Menon DUBAI (Reuters) - Thousands of workers employed by Dubai's largest construction firm, Arabtec, stayed away from work on Sunday to back wage demands, a rare labor protest in the Gulf emirate, where trade unions are banned, staff said. Most blue collar workers in the Gulf Arab states are migrant laborers …

NEWCOMB, N.Y. (AP) — After a big easy sweep across a flat-water pool on the upper Hudson River, Allison Buckley made sure she chose a better channel through the oncoming rapids than the previous canoe that hung up on a submerged rock.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Mount Rushmore National Memorial may be the most famous landmark in the Black Hills of South Dakota, but it's not the only one.

NEW YORK (AP) — The 2013 cruise season began with a nightmare: A Carnival ship adrift with no power. But in the last month or so, several cruise companies — including Carnival — have announced major overhauls to old ships and exciting innovations on new ships, from engineering upgrades to theme park-style rides.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — In a bid to safeguard biodiversity and the Caribbean's tourism-based economy, regional political leaders and corporate executives will gather Friday on billionaire Richard Branson's private island with the aim of protecting 20 percent of the region's coastal resources by 2020.

Real-estate developers are breaking ground on downtown Salt Lake City's first new hotels since a Hyatt Place was built in 2009. The additions are for specialized segments of the hotel industry and won't ...

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal police say a small plane with foreign tourists has crashed while attempting to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal.

State tourism officials say that more people visited Florida in the first three months of 2013 than any other quarter in the state's history. Visit Florida announced Wednesday that preliminary numbers ...

KEENE, N.H. (AP) — A fourth-grade class that substituted a "Magic Segway" for the "Magic School Bus" took the top prize Wednesday in a video contest sponsored by the state Division of Travel and Tourism.

Belize's government said Tuesday it is pursuing a "vigorous" investigation into a road-building company's near destruction of one of the largest Mayan pyramids in Belize. The Ministry of Tourism ...

Critics label Dan Brown's "Inferno" a clunky page-turner LONDON (Reuters) - Early reviews of Dan Brown's fast-paced fourth book in "The Da Vinci Code" series labeled it a "clunky" page-turner that will nevertheless delight his fans. Critics said the dark mysteries, mind-bending codes and history-laced tourism in "Inferno" …

LONDON (Reuters) - Early reviews of Dan Brown's fast-paced fourth book in "The Da Vinci Code" series labeled it a "clunky" page-turner that will nevertheless delight his fans. Critics said the dark mysteries, mind-bending codes and history-laced tourism in "Inferno" will thrill Brown devotees, but panned the U.S. author …

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo will create a new town named after Patrice Lumumba, its assassinated post-independence prime minister, the government said on Tuesday. Lumumbaville will be formed from settlements near the birthplace of the revered politician in the remote province of Kasai Oriental. "We're …

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — Britain's Prince Harry toured two New Jersey shore communities devastated by Superstorm Sandy, shaking hands with emergency personnel and construction workers before spending Tuesday afternoon in New York City at events promoting tourism, entrepreneurism and philanthropy. He even got a chance …

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Tiana Martins stepped gingerly into the red cable-car gondola, giggling from nerves as the doors slid shut, the ground dropped precipitously beneath her feet and she sailed off over the conglomerate of bare-brick shacks that is the Alemao complex of shantytowns.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Some of Ohio's most popular tourist attractions are tying early summer discounts to fast-food beverage purchases in a new state promotion.