FORT LAUDERDALE – Certified Vacations Group, Inc. announced in a Business Wire release that it has agreed with Continental Airlines to discontinue operating the Continental Airlines Vacations brand effective November 1, 2008. The move enables an early start to a new Tour Operator Agreement reached between the two companies in April 2008 that makes Continental air service available via Certified’s private-label Future Vacations brand for the first time, according to Nick Davison, President of Certified Vacations. The addition of Continental brings to 18 the total number of airlines featured in the Future Vacations product line.
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Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world’s largest bookseller, will open a new bookstore on October 30 in The Shops at Wiregrass at 28152 Paseo Drive, Wesley Chapel, Florida.
Philanthropist and community leader Adrienne Arsht committed to give a five million dollar donation to support key initiatives at University of Miami. The gift includes two million for The University of Miami’s (UM) Ethics Programs, adding to an earlier one million dollar donation and constituting the largest gift for ethics in Florida history; and one million dollars to the Hope for Vision program of The Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.
