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As we head into Thanksgiving Day during a year filled with travel nightmares - record flight delays, appalling airport gridlock, endless flight cancellations - the travel staff pauses to give thanks for things that went right in 2007.

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A list of things to do this weekend.

SEATTLE | Seattle-based Noble House Hotels & Resorts, a privately held real estate development company that owns and manages 13 upscale, award-winning resort properties in the United States, announced that it has added the AAA Four Diamond WaterColor Inn and Resort to its current portfolio of luxury, boutique properties.

FLORENCE — The Francis Marion athletic department and the Swamp Fox Club will hold a live benefit auction along with a men’s and women’s basketball tip-off celebration at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the university’s Ervin Dining Hall. Tickets are $25 for individuals, $40 for a couple, and $175 for a table of eight. Dress will be casual. For ticket information, call the athletic department office at ...

The Caribbean should be like apple pie and custard – warm, just slightly spicy and utterly undemanding.

Yolanda Carslaw escapes the tourist trail and checks out some of the best hotels on Australia's Sunshine Coast.

"Wouldn't it be nice..." is an exhibition exploring the blurred boundaries between art and design at the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva. It includes works by Jürgen Bey; the London-based trio, Tony Dunne, Fiona Raby and Michael Anastassiades; Martino Gamper; and Ryan Gander.

NEW YORK - Travelers adopting a green lifestyle at home expect hotels to be environmentally sound, prompting rising numbers of hotels to go green.

With a name like ''The Laughing Lizard B&B,'' it's a pretty safe bet guests won't arrive to find a Victorian hideaway, with lace doilies, claw-footed tubs and sepia tin-types of serious-looking folks lined up atop the fireplace.