For Theroux, the Lake Victoria crossing embodied the simple pleasure of independent travel.
Always shop around to find the best deals among car rental company websites and independent travel sites.
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Group travel is preferred in a country where a bewildering variety of cuisines, dialects and cultures can make independent travel daunting.
"This is an acquisition that fits perfectly with our strategy of enhancing Thomas Cook's position in the independent travel sector and will also further strengthen our mainstream business, " said Thomas Cook Group chief executive Manny Fontenla-Novoa.
They will rightly suspect that Orbitz is not an independent travel shop scouting out the best deals for them, but one that deliberately pushes travel options from Cendant's subsidiaries to the top of its list of offerings.
The Independent's travel editor Simon Calder thinks the campaign might be on to something.
The Independent's travel editor Simon Calder argues most airport stress is generally proportionate to the number of people using them at the same time.
Purple Travel is part of the Hays Travel Independent Consortium.
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Most are relatively affluent, independent women who need to travel alone a lot.
Dr Jones identified six types of activities: work (paid and voluntary), learning, travel (organised and independent) and leisure.
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Simon Calder, travel editor of The Independent, says it's hardly surprising when you consider that there are different grading systems in England, Scotland and Wales.
Simon Calder -- travel journalist and senior travel editor at The Independent newspaper -- said taking extra cash was the only additional precaution he'd take.
Simon Calder, travel editor of the Independent, said air passengers should expect cancellations and delays on Tuesday but it was not as bad as predicted.
Simon Calder, travel editor of the Independent, recently told this website that the way German tourism had failed to develop was an "extraordinary story" and mainly due to the war.
Several independent companies offer turnkey Indy 500 travel packages.
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While traditional phone calls were made over an independent, robust network, VoIP calls travel over the Internet and are dependent on computers to convert voices to digital signals and back.
In 2009, members of the U.S. Senate -- Republicans Lindsey Graham and John McCain and an independent, Joe Lieberman -- would travel to Libya to meet with Gadhafi to offer further aid.
These were originally created by several of the largest airlines to distribute their flights through travel agencies but have since become independent firms.
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The Australian cricket authorities commissioned an independent security report on Pakistan before deciding not to travel.
He writes regularly in The Independent on Sunday, Evening Standard and Sunday Times Travel magazine, and has written and contributed to guides for the AA, Dorling Kindersley and Michelin.
But as long as the airlines are prohibited by law from offering online bookers or anyone else a price advantage, most independent travellers will still prefer a quick call to their travel agent.
As independent consultants, these new retirees can even combine work and travel, taking assignments in other cities or countries.
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As a result, some of these industry participants and independent experts fear that the current high level of competition among online travel agents and metasearch providers could be undermined if Google were to acquire ITA and start its own OTA or metasearch service.
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For example, people travel more than they used to, and are generally more independent as individuals.
Writing in the Independent on Sunday, Sir Richard Branson calls on the Foreign Office to stop issuing travel bulletins advising people not to visit countries affected by terrorism.
Trevorrow's independent comedy, Safety Not Guaranteed, featuring Mark Duplass as an eccentric inventor who is seeking to travel back in time, was shown at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
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