The Casual Bag Issue

Editor's Note
"Anne L. DeCicco"

Travel Tidbits
Travel news from around the world.

All-Industry News
Business Briefs — travel, association, retail, and vendor news. 

TGA News
Information and Association updates, and Democracy in Action profile.

Exclusive!
Travel Goods Show 2004 Preview

Everything you need to know to plan your trip to Washington, DC! Travel Goods Show 2004 highlights and opportunities, All-Industry Breakfast, and other special events and activities, plus train, housing and registration information and sign-up forms.

Alphabetical List of Travel Goods Show Exhibitors

Kids Rule
With cash from allowances and part-time jobs, today’s young, spirited youth are poised to out-consume their baby boomer parents. Because they’re wielding enormous purchasing power, they’ve become an important spending bloc that
is impossible to ignore. by catherine trecartin

Targeting Teens and Tweens
Travel Goods Showcase previews the newest gear bags, totes, backpacks, duffels and ski bags for today’s active youth.
by michele marini pittenger
photographs by kerry pittenger
art direction by kim wong

The Biggest Thing to Happen to Your Business Since 9/11…Didn’t
A year ago, there was a very real chance that every business in the U.S. travel goods industry would have suffered significant financial damage unlike anything in the past two decades other than 9/11. This is what you missed. by henry (skip) kotkins, jr.

David vs. Goliath
When the American Textile Manufacturers Institute petitioned the government to impose special textile safeguard quotas on U.S. imports of textile travel goods, the increased imports could have resulted in significant market disruption for U.S. textile and travel goods manufacturers. TGA won numerous victories in the face of the powerful textile lobby, eventually defeating the petition. by nate herman

People, Places and Things
News about industry people and products.

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