Vacation is the oasis in the midst of your occupational desert, if you will. It’s the respite from the daily grind that we look forward to all year, whether it comes during the summer or the winter holidays or a random long weekend. After all, even if you like your job, doesn’t everybody deserve a few days to themselves?
Apparently not.
Twenty-five percent of workers said they planned to stay in contact with work during their vacations, CareerBuilder.com’s annual survey found. Nine percent said their bosses expect them to work or check their voicemail and e-mail when vacationing.
Fifty percent of sales workers planned to check in with work on vacation, while IT workers and financial services workers followed behind with 37 percent of each doing the same. Read the rest of this entry »
This week’s TravelAge west magazine, the leading trade magazine for travel agents and the travel industry in the 14 western states, announced the 2009 Trendsetter awards as the feature article on the cover of its magazine. Among those honored, Marc R Kassouf and PRIDE Travel were awarded Best Community Service –runner up, for their exemplary and continued contributions to the Center of Long Beach. The Center, which provides extensive community and health programs to the local and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer community, has been the beneficiary of Marc’s and PRIDE Travel’s contributions individually and as a company for almost a decade. Contributions have helped the non-profit charitable organization raise in excess of $100,000 to supplement its annual budget enabling programs such as youth suicide prevention, health awareness and disease prevention, counseling and mentorship, elder-care, and numerous other local programs benefitting the community.
As key ingredients in its new brand recognition strategy, PRIDE Travel launched its refocused public relations and media campaign today as a two-pronged approach, enhancing its prior approach of press release through exclusively online channels. To promote its online, blog presence, and viral marketing efforts, PRIDE Travel had been utilizing 1888pressrelease.com to distribute content-rich Google press releases and online syndication. The move to ExpertClick.com was described as “a natural growth into a more developed online medium” by Marc R Kassouf, owner and CEO.
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