Guests Receive a $20 Visa Gift Card For Weekend Stays…Go to www.courtyard.com/giftcard, Use Promo Code CYS.

This year, summer vacations with Courtyard have gotten a little more rewarding. Starting today, guests who book a weekend stay at Courtyard also get some extra spending money with a $20 Visa(R) Gift card. The gift card can be used anywhere Visa(R) is accepted.

Southwest Airlines today celebrated the airline’s new service at LaGuardia with its “New Service, New Attitude, New York” themed celebration. Southwest Customers and Employees dined on New York style bagels while being serenaded by Southwest’s rapping flight attendant, David Holmes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivjybzdXVmI. Southwest Airlines’ Senior Vice President of Operations Greg Wells joined the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Director of Aviation William R. DeCota in a morning news conference at LaGuardia to launch the airline’s new service. Click Southwest Airlines to see the full LaGuardia schedule or to book a flight to or from New York City.

“Southwest Airlines is celebrating a truly momentous occasion today. Finally New York travelers can experience our unmatched record in Customer Service and our phenomenally low fares at an airport close to where they work and play,” said Wells. “Additionally, Customers in both Chicago and the DC area now have a new low fare choice when planning trips into LaGuardia.”

Norwegian Cruise Line pulled out all the stops at Vacation.com’s 11th International Conference and Trade Show at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas from June 16-20, 2009 when the Blue Man Group closed the show with a live and exciting performance that had more than 1,100 travel partner attendees on their feet. The blissful party atmosphere created at their live events has become the trademark of a Blue Man Group experience and beginning in the summer of 2010 will be seen for the first time ever at sea only on Norwegian Epic.

Blue Man Group is best known for their wildly popular theatrical shows and concerts which combine music, comedy and multimedia theatrics to produce a totally unique form of entertainment. At Vcom it was no different, in a rousing performance of paint drumming, Blue Man Group created a masterful work of art displaying the Norwegian Epic logo.