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Park Avenue Travel Services Where is YOUR next destination?

Park Avenue Travel is a customer-focused travel management company that serves our clients effectively and efficiently while gaining the respect of our agency suppliers and customers.

Providing travel services for our valued clients is more than just booking travel accommodations—it’s a relationship—and we will support you throughout your travel experience to insure your arrangements are cost effective and convenient.

Our effectiveness is empowered by our relationships with airlines, rental cars, hotels and all travel related suppliers. We have the highest respect for these suppliers and their ability to help us better service our customers needs. Consequently, our suppliers have the same respect for us. Park Avenue Travel represents our clients, to our suppliers, honestly and accurately to ensure the best possible pricing negotiations.

Business Travel

• Customization of travel management programs.
• Cost-effective, efficient travel planning with a high focus on customer satisfaction.
• Traveler advocacy.
• Experienced travel advisors with a minimum of 20 years travel industry experience.

Group Travel

• Connected experiences.
• Engage, excite and inspire people to perform.
• Vendor negotiations
• Destination management
• Deliver on your strategic objectives

Event Travel

Incentive Travel

• Recognize top talent.
• Team motivation.
• Boost sales, productivity, loyalty & morale.
• Memorable and unique travel experiences.

Need to Get Away?

• Recharge mentally and physically.
• Self reflection.

Adventure Travel

• Exhilarating travel experiences.
• Engage your muscles as well as your mind and heart.
• Bike riding, mountain trekking, skiing, rock climbing, scuba diving, dogsledding, white watering rafting.  
• Inspires curiosity, thrill seeking, boundary pushing.  

Family Vacations

• Teach children the importance of making memories.
• Form a stronger bond.
• Renew relationships.
• New experiences.
• Straighten interpersonal skills.

The Beauty of America

• Each state varies in culture, lifestyle and population.  Always something new and exciting to experience.
• Many hidden gems.
• Iconic landmarks.
• Breathtaking scenery.

Exotic Locations

• Travel that is completely different than you are used to.
• Strikingly, excitingly, mysteriously different or unusual destinations throughout the world.
• Unforgetable experiences.
• Figi, French Polynesia, Seychelles, Antarctica, Borneo, Greenland, New Zealand, Rwanda, to name a few.

Train Travel

• Immerse yourself in the journey as you travel into parts of countries often inaccessible by other modes of transportation.  
• The journey is part of the adventure.
• Outstanding rail experiences, ranging from classic overnight trains to scenic heritage railways.
• Travel styles to meet any taste and budget.
• Flexible customization options.

Road Trip Travel

• Freedom & Flexibility.  
• Touring off the beaten track.
• Scenic routes

Special Interests Travel

• Choose a theme for your experience .
• Whatever your interest there is a destination that can enhance your interest.
• Yoga, wine enthusiasts, animal enthusiasts, cooking experiences.
• Cultural, Historical and Natural trips

Whether you prefer to travel by airplane, car, ship, or train; we can help you with ALL your travel needs.

• Funjet Vacations
• Apple Vacations
• Royal Caribbean Cruises
• Viking River Cruises
• Destinations Weddings
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Welcome to Professional Travel Associates... Your Destination Specialists!

Travel Agency, Flights, Hotels, Resorts, Airline Tickets, Honeymoons, Destination Weddings, Worldwide Leisure Travel, Corporate Travel, Cruises, Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Central America, South America, Canada

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Quality – all our services are high quality, as we offer our partners the best from the best

With us, you will find the right travel insurance for your trip.

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WTM London 2022

Travel Associates will be present in WTM London, between 07-09 Nov 2022.

Our Mission

To build strong and long lasting business relations with our GSA partners, clients and suppliers worldwide in order to provide professional customer service and high quality products at very competitive rates. For us, this is more than a business; we are committed to improving our standards of service and continuously expand into new markets and provide new products.

Why do business with us!

- Online booking system for business to business use only

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Contact Information

• 13A Motilor Street, District 3, Bucharest, Romania
• (+40) 21-320-2013 (+40) 723-619-522

About Company

Travel Associates was founded in 2009 in Bucharest, Romania as a part of a group of companies which was build in 2002. In 2003 the group started to expand in the Greek market and by 2005 it was well established within this market. In 2007 it started its expansion in the Balkans, Cyprus and the Middle East.... Read details

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5 Gut Facts Experts Want You to Know

We asked gastroenterologists every mortifying question we could think of. Here’s straight talk on constipation, heartburn and gas.

By Jancee Dunn

Flatulence, constipation and diarrhea can be embarrassing. But you don’t need to be shy about discussing them with a gastroenterologist, a doctor who treats conditions of the digestive system.

“We’ve heard it all,” said Sophie Balzora, a gastroenterologist and clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health. “And we want to normalize talking about it.”

So I took her advice and plunged in, asking her and other experts what they want you to know about your gut.

Acid reflux and heartburn are not the same thing.

People often use the terms “acid reflux” and “heartburn” interchangeably, but it’s important not to mix them up, said Christine Lee, a gastroenterologist at Cleveland Clinic.

Acid reflux, which affects nearly a third of U.S. adults weekly, is the backward flow of stomach acid into the esophagus. Sometimes it progresses to a more serious condition called gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD.

Heartburn, on the other hand, is a symptom, not a condition. A burning pain in the chest can be caused by acid reflux or GERD. It can also be a sign of other problems, including heart trouble or a peptic ulcer, so it’s worth visiting a doctor if you have persistent heartburn, Dr. Lee said.

And if you think you have GERD, check in with your doctor to help you get it under control, Dr. Lee said, not only because you can get some relief, but because it has been associated with esophageal cancer .

Taking antacids regularly can cause (or mask) problems.

Just because antacids are often sold next to gum and mints at the drugstore doesn’t mean that you should eat them like candy, Dr. Balzora said. If you’re taking any antacids daily, or even a few times a week, that’s a sign that something could be wrong, she added.

Overusing these medications, she said, can cause additional problems. Regularly downing calcium-based antacids, for instance, can increase your risk for kidney stones.

You don’t have to poop every day.

Some people worry about not having a daily bowel movement, but constipation is generally defined as having fewer than three bowel movements a week .

“There’s a wide range of what’s considered normal,” Dr. Balzora said. If you’re a “three-a-weeker,” as she puts it, and you’re not having pain or difficulty passing or any other symptoms, she said, “then that’s fine.”

What’s more noteworthy is a sudden change in habits. If “you used to be a one-a-dayer and now you’re a once-a-weeker, or vice versa,” Dr. Balzora said, “then that needs to be evaluated.”

Constipated? Check your medicine cabinet.

If you have constipation, your first strategy should be to make lifestyle changes such as adding more water and fiber to your diet and exercising a little more, said Xavier Llor, a gastroenterologist at Yale Medicine.

But many people overlook how often medications can be a culprit, Dr. Llor said. “You’ll hear an ad with potential side effects, and get bored and stop listening, but so many medications are constipating,” he said.

Prescription medications like antidepressants and blood pressure medication can cause constipation, according to the National Institute on Aging. So can over-the-counter drugs like pain killers, antihistamines and some antacids , as well as calcium and iron supplements.

If you are using a medication that stops you up, “ask your doctor if there’s a nonconstipating alternative,” Dr. Llor said.

Healthy habits may lower your risk of I.B.S.

Irritable bowel syndrome, a gastrointestinal condition that brings on frequent episodes of diarrhea, constipation or cramping, is one of the most commonly diagnosed digestive disorders .

There’s no cure , but there are habits that may lower your overall risk of developing it, Dr. Balzora said. A recent study that followed almost 65,000 people for over 12 years looked at five healthy behaviors: never smoking, regular exercise, moderate alcohol consumption, a healthy diet and at least seven hours of sleep. Those who did at least three of those things had a 42 percent lower risk of developing I.B.S.

If you think you have I.B.S., don’t self-diagnose, said Natasha Chhabra, a gastroenterologist at Gastroenterology Associates of New Jersey. A doctor will perform specific tests, she said, as well as screen for conditions, like celiac disease.

As I wound up my chat with Dr. Balzora, she stressed the importance of having open conversations around bowel habits, and signed off with a possibly liberating fact: The average healthy person passes gas 10 to 20 times a day.

“I’m on a crusade to normalize flatulence, too,” she said.

Protect yourself from melanoma, a dangerous type of skin cancer.

About 100,000 people are diagnosed with melanoma each year in the United States. Ted Alcorn explores simple ways to reduce your risk and to catch possible cases early, while they are most curable.

Read the article: How to Avoid One of the Deadliest Forms of Skin Cancer

To get the best care at the dentist, speak up.

A visit to the dentist can be confusing or intimidating. Knvul Sheikh reports on how to demystify what’s going on in your mouth, and figure out what treatments are necessary.

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Here are some stories you don’t want to miss:

Holly Burns finds that a little bit of dirt is good for you .

Amanda Loudin explores how to turn a bike ride into a bike workout .

Christina Caron reports on the growing practice of prescribing social activities for mental health.

Why do we have tick medication for dogs but not for people? Dana Smith investigates .

Let’s keep the conversation going. Follow Well on Instagram , or write to us at [email protected] . And check out last week’s newsletter about decluttering projects you can do in half an hour .

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Walmarts in St. Louis and Cleveland are the latest to yank self-checkout

• Walmart Supercenters in St. Louis, Missouri, and Cleveland, Ohio, are removing self-checkout.
• The change follows a similar move last year at three locations in New Mexico.
• Major retailers have taken other steps to address some of the problems raised by self-service tech .

A pair of Walmarts — one in Missouri and one in Oho — are ditching self-checkout lanes in an effort to improve the in-store experience.

The company confirmed the decisions to Business Insider in a statement, saying the changeover processes at the Cleveland Steelyard location and a St. Louis-area Supercenter take place after hours and will be completed in about two weeks.

Spokesperson Brian Little said the decision was based on feedback from employees and customers, as well as local shopping patterns.

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"We believe the change will improve the in-store shopping experience and give our associates the chance to provide more personalized and efficient service," he said.

If the news sounds familiar, that's because three Walmart stores in New Mexico did the same thing last year.

Meanwhile, discount stores Dollar General and FiveBelow have each said they will scale back or eliminate self-checkout from their stores as those retailers grapple with high rates of missing inventory .

Walmart has over 4,700 US locations, and the company said at the time there was no plan to remove self-service kiosks from stores at a widespread scale.

Apart from removing the technology altogether at some stores, retailers, including Walmart, have taken a number of steps to address some of the challenges posed by self-checkout.

Earlier this year, BI reported several Walmart locations were limiting access to self-checkout lanes to users of either the company's Walmart+ or Spark delivery apps.

Target instituted a change that capped item counts to ten or fewer in the self-service lanes — a move the company said helped make the checkout process twice as fast as when there were no limits. Some stores also began limiting the hours that the self-checkout lanes were open .

Researchers found that self-checkout drives a phenomenon known as "partial shrink," where inventory is lost due to customers failing to properly scan and pay for all of the items in their transactions.

Watch: Walmart shooter started the massacre in a staff break room

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