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Elite Travel Offers Last-Minute Availability on Summer Spa Retreat to Acclaimed Canyon Ranch: Los Angeles, CA—Beat the summer doldrums with a four- or seven-night escape to the original destination spa, Tuscon’s Canyon Ranch Resort. Last-minute availability has opened up on this annual trip offered by Elite Travel International, a unique luxury travel boutique based in Brentwood, CA. The annual spa retreat takes place August 24-28, 2008 (with seven-night option available), and is led by Elite Travel International president Stacy Small, a luxury travel expert and the founding editorial director of Elite Traveler Magazine. A self-proclaimed health/fitness junkie who has written about luxury travel and spas for Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure and Spa Magazine, Small has traveled to Canyon Ranch four times in the past three years and will be available throughout the stay to assist first-time visitors to the Ranch and as a resource on spas and luxury travel for repeat guests. A $25 donation will be made to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation for each spot reserved by Monday June 30. Prices start at just $1,850 per person for a four-night stay, double occupancy, inclusive of accommodations, gourmet healthy meals and snacks, fitness classes, yoga, meditation, a $480 spa credit and round-trip airport transfers. For more information, call 310.979.9036 or email elitetravelgal@aol.com.

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For mileage programs, the worst is yet to come

There has been plenty of bad news for members of the airlines' mileage programs in recent months. New fees have been imposed, and old fees have been increased. Award levels have been raised. And two airlines, United and US Airways, have scrapped their longstanding policies of awarding a minimum of 500 miles for short-haul flights. Click Here To Read Article