The Shenzhen travel agencies had earlier booked 3,500 Bangkok- and Phuket-bound charter flight tickets and paid HK$7 million to Orient Thai Airlines.However, when they asked for the tickets to be canceled due to the worsening political situation in Thailand, the airlines deducted HK$3 million in cancellation fees.The 30 members of the association said that since they had fully refunded their customers, they stood to lose the HK$3 million.The association visited the Consumer Council's head office in North Point yesterday to lodge an official complaint and asked the watchdog to mediate with the airline to get a full refund.However, council staff explained that since the matter is a business dispute, it went beyond its scope.The staff also suggested the members contact the Travel Industry Council to see if it can provide any assistance.But TIC executive director Joseph Tung Yiu-chung said that although Hong Kong had issued the black travel alert for Bangkok, air services to the country are continuing.TIC chairman Michael Wu Siu-ying said: "Indeed the issue is beyond our scope and it is a business transaction between an airline company and the Shenzhen travel agencies."On Tuesday the Thai government declared a 60-day state of emergency, saying that it wanted to prevent escalation in the more than two months of protests aimed at forcing out Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. . In one of his 23 trips out of Rhode Island last year, Mayor Angel Taveras' rising national profile was noted by the moderator of a forum.
“You probably saw him in the news a lot because earlier this year he was really the spearhead behind Providence winning the $5-million prize in the Mayors Challenge for an early-childhood literacy program he and his team in Providence put together," Jonathan Bowles, executive director of the Center for an Urban Future, said at a New York University Mayoral Policy Lab panel discussion where Taveras spoke in June.Taveras, now a candidate for governor, said he believes that being a good ambassador outside the city and state you represent is essential to the job. He says his promotion of Providence when traveling for city business and campaign fundraising - together totaling 41 days last year - has brought millions of dollars in grants to the city and raised a wealth of ideas to make Providence better.Yet two of his fundraising trips caused Taveras to miss two engagements in successive weeks in early December - one where he was to be the featured speaker at the University of Rhode Island's premier lecture series.Taveras' predecessor, David N. Cicilline, was broadly criticized during and after his campaign for the U.S. House for shifting his focus from city finances - later revealed to be in shambles - to his quest for higher office.Now, with eight months to go before the Democratic primary in the governor's race, the question was put to Taveras: What would you say to people who think you are neglecting your mayoral duties to run for governor?“I work 365 days of the year," Taveras replied.The consumer is opening up his wallet and springing on travel in 2013.Travel, one of the largest travel xinjiang companies, recently reported bookings were up for the summer even at higher sales prices.The question investors should ask today is whether any of the silk road culture tour in this space trade at reasonable valuations.These are the most widely viewed travel websites on the market today. “I am available 365 days a year. The only exception is if I am on a plane that doesn't have Wi-Fi.
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