Tour Operators

British panda-watchers missing in Sichuan (Times Online)

13 May 2008

Nineteen Britons on a panda-watching eco-tour in China's Sichuan province have been missing since yesterday's massive earthquake, their tour operator said today.

Ecommerce Traps: Price Fixing and Self-Packaging (eyefortravel.com)

13 May 2008

Hotels sell rooms to tour operators at prices below their published rates. Operators sell those rooms on to consumers. Sometimes the hotel asks the operator to agree that the price charged to consumers should not fall below the rates published on the hotel’s own web site.

Tour de France Wannabes Jam Own Race as Drugs Taint Real Thing (Bloomberg.com)

13 May 2008

May 13 (Bloomberg) -- Mark Kopinski whipped out his BlackBerry and e-mailed friends the he was ``feeling like a rock star'' after three of five climbs in last July's L'Etape du Tour , an event for amateur cyclists over the same Pyrenees mountain course the Tour de France followed a week later.