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		<title>PRIDE Travel Continues Support Of Thailand Travel, Remembers Lessons Learned Last Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 07:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRIDE Travel, a full service travel agency focusing on the GLBT or Gay and Lesbian travel segment, announced it will continue to sell travel packages and customized individual travel to Thailand, even after recent escalation of violence between the government and opposition. 
Two days before the news broke about escalating violence in Thailand’s capital city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRIDE Travel Receives Telly Award for Amazing Thailand Commercial, Marking Second Award</title>
		<link>http://blog.pride.travel/2010/05/28/448/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 17:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In announcing the winners of the 31st Annual Telly Awards, the Silver Council recognized PRIDE Travel with one of its highest awards, a bronze Telly Award, for the independent in-house. The commercial was produced in-house by PRIDE Travel’s owner and CEO Marc R. Kassouf using only readily-available media tools found on a standard office PC. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World&#8217;s Weirdest Restaurants</title>
		<link>http://blog.pride.travel/2010/02/05/396/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc, Owner &#38; CEO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even for those of us who aren&#8217;t self-professed gastronomes, many of travel&#8217;s most vivid memories are made at mealtime &#8212; we remember so well that skin-melting madras curry in Southern India or that al dente spaghetti in squid ink in Venice. So while there&#8217;s nothing inherently wrong with grabbing yet another sandwich at an international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Culinary Revival in Istanbul &#8212; The city&#8217;s Ottoman restaurants rediscover a legendary cuisine with cosmopolitan roots</title>
		<link>http://blog.pride.travel/2010/01/08/315/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc, Owner &#38; CEO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By J.S. MARCUS &#8211; Wall Street Journal
Istanbul


 
Photo: Tugra, in the Ciragan Palace Kempinski hotel (Kerem Uzel for The Wall Street Journal)



Elegant restaurants along the Bosphorus prepare fish beautifully and plainly, in a Mediterranean style similar to that of Italy or Greece. In Beyoglu, Istanbul&#8217;s nightlife hub, tables are cluttered with tavern food in tapas-like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s Coolest Pools &#8211;Travel+Leisure</title>
		<link>http://blog.pride.travel/2009/12/19/303/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc, Owner &#38; CEO</dc:creator>
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Get wet at these wild and wonderful swim spots.
From Travel+Leisure Magazine, December 2009 By Jimmy Im 
Sally Randall Brunger, creative director of men’s knitwear line The Brungers, traverses the globe for inspiration for her collections—and she knows a cool pool when she sees one. “I can’t imagine anything more fun after a day of meetings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten HotSpots for High Tea &#8212; A Global Tour</title>
		<link>http://blog.pride.travel/2009/12/14/322/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc, Owner &#38; CEO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From : 
SINGAPORE &#8211; Fancy a cuppa? From highbrow salons to highland plantations, the world&#8217;s best places to have tea.
1. London, England
Ladies, don your gowns; gents, start pressing your ties. Afternoon tea at the Ritz is a splendid formal affair: silver pots and fine china chink at 4 p.m. sharp under the vaulted glass and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRIDE Travel Returns from Korea Discovery and Seoul City Journey, Finds New Exciting Destination for Clients to Explore</title>
		<link>http://blog.pride.travel/2009/11/01/265/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc, Owner &#38; CEO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Participants in the Seoul Tourism Organization sponsored and hosted event return home with a fresh perspective on the fascinating culture, attractions, and exotic cuisine that form the facets of Asia&#8217;s sparkling jewel, Korea. The familiarization tour included five fast paced full days split between Gwangju, Korea&#8217;s southern culinary capital, and Seoul, it&#8217;s vibrant cultural and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 5 – Tokyo: Meiji Shrine, Imperial Palace, Toyota MegaWeb, Asakusa, and Ginza</title>
		<link>http://blog.pride.travel/2009/09/10/431/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc, Owner &#38; CEO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is a full day; we are slated to check out of the hotel after breakfast this morning, tour around several areas of Tokyo, including the Imperial Palace area, Ginza, and then head over to Narita back to the Hilton for an overnight and to prepare for our flights home, thus completing the circle much like the spiritual Zen enso comes around full circle.]]></description>
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		<title>Day 4 – Atami to Hakone, Lake Ashi Cruise, and Tokyo Shinjuku</title>
		<link>http://blog.pride.travel/2009/09/09/255/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc, Owner &#38; CEO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[3:30am I am awakened numerous times and am in bad wear from sleeping on the Tatami Mat. During one of these sleep intermissions, I decide to use the bathroom. Somehow, I manage to groggily don the appropriate shoes and sit on the john. But, no sooner than my tush has touched the porcelain shrine&#8217;s seat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 3 – Narita to Kamakura&#8217;s Cultural Treasures and Atami Hot Springs Onsen</title>
		<link>http://blog.pride.travel/2009/09/08/241/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc, Owner &#38; CEO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our automated wakeup call this morning was timely and funny: the heavily accented words &#8220;Good Morning&#8221; repeated over and over again with the tinny notes of Fur Elise playing gingerly in the background; unexpected, but effective in tickling the funny center of the brain and eliciting our wakeup. We are well rested and anxious to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRIDE Travel&#8217;s Japan Journey: Day 1&amp;2 – Los Angeles to Tokyo on Heavenly Airlines (aka Singapore Airlines)</title>
		<link>http://blog.pride.travel/2009/09/07/234/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc, Owner &#38; CEO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first day’s itinerary involves getting ready for our afternoon flight, which for us entails packing and getting ready for the flight (the easy part) and taking care of last minute business details, the unending forgotten chores that pop up (the hard part), all with the sole end purpose of boarding our flight smoothly. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRIDE Travel&#8217;s Japan Journey Begins! Our Day 0 Itinerary</title>
		<link>http://blog.pride.travel/2009/09/05/223/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan, Owner/Manager &#38; COO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc and I are ecstatic about our trip tomorrow. We&#8217;re going to Japan, an exotic land of historic culture, multitudes of attractions both modern and ancient, diverse locales and natural wonders, and cuisine that is world renowned. What follows is only a taste, a pu-pu platter, if you will, of our journey to come in [...]]]></description>
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