CCRA International, Inc. announced in November that our company's stock has been acquired by OurLink, LLC a robust investment fund group that was a participant in this year's development of the CCRAtravel.com portal. CCRA International. Inc. and Reservation Center, Inc. had been owned for the past 18 months by OneLink Corporation. OurLink, LLC and OneLink Corporation are unrelated groups and share no common ownership.

The purchase of Reservation Center, Inc. and CCRA International, Inc. was completed on November 20, 2006, marking a transition back to our status as an independently operated company. CCRA International, its CCRAtravel.com booking portal, and Reservation Center’s 24/7 Call Center Services will all continue operations from our Agoura Hills, California headquarters.

CCRA International is proud to have invested resources during 2006 into the development of pioneering technology that aggregates multiple hotel distribution channels into a single online search, and enables agents to set their own commissions and get paid much faster. CCRA International’s Hotel Program continues to set new standards enabling hotels to effectively reach travel agencies and their travelers’ discretionary spend. CCRA International’s hotel program has seen unprecedented growth in hotel participation and sales during 2006.

“CCRA International achieved its highest membership growth rate in 2006 extending our distribution network to 19,000 agencies in their more than 25,000 locations worldwide,” said Dic Marxen, newly appointed President and CEO of CCRA International, Inc. and Reservation Center, Inc. “We are poised for growth, and our vision is to continue expanding our current portal technology to travel content suppliers and travel agent members worldwide.”

“Over its past 30 years, Reservation Center has remained a leading provider of call center services to the travel agent community and cultivated innovation in the area of 24/7 call services,” said Jim Day, Vice President of Operations for Reservation Center, Inc. “Following extensive technology upgrades, both Reservation Center and CCRA International are now well positioned for a promising future in our role as a leading travel support, marketing and distribution channel.”

Under the Western HemisphereTravel Initiative (WHTI)

• In January 2007, ALL persons, including U.S. citizens, traveling by air between the United States and Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda will be required to present a valid passport, Air NEXUS card, or U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Document.
• As early as January 1, 2008, ALL persons, including U.S. citizens, traveling between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda by land or sea (including ferries), may be required to present a valid passport or other documents as determined by the Department of Homeland Security. While recent legislative changes permit a later deadline, the Departments of State and Homeland Security are working to meet all requirements as soon as possible. Ample advance notice will be provided to enable the public to obtain passports or passport cards for land/sea entries.

Travel Documents for U.S. Citizens Under WHTI
Under the proposed implementation plan, the following documents will be acceptable to fulfill document requirements:

• U.S. Passport:   U.S. citizens may present a valid U.S. passport when traveling via air between the United States and Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda, and may also use a U.S. passport when traveling via sea and land borders (including ferry crossings).
• The Passport Card (also referred to as the PASS Card):   This limited-use passport in card format is currently under development and will be available for use for travel only via land or sea (including ferries) between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda.  Similar in size to a credit card, it will fit easily into a wallet.
• DOS and DHS also anticipate that the following documents will continue to be acceptable for their current travel uses under WHTI:  SENTRI, NEXUS, FAST, and the U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Document.  As proposed, members of the U.S. Armed Forces on active duty traveling on orders will continue to be exempt from the passport requirement. 

Fact Sheets Available
For more details on current passport requirements, or FactSheets, visit http://travel.state.gov and click on International Travel.

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Oceanfront Golf
The Puntacana Resort & Club, Dominican Republic is located on 105 acres of lush gardens with 3 miles of white-sandy beaches and turquoise water, this low-density resort is the perfect place to unwind. This hotel features fresh linens and towels, coffee maker, mini bar, hair dryer, private bathrooms, direct dial telephones, color cable television, A/C, safety deposit boxes., and wireless internet connection is available in the lobby, pool area, in the conference room and at the beach until the La Choza Restaurant area. Families, golfers and honeymooners will fall in love with the resort's extraordinary natural beauty.  Miles of white sand beach, kids program, an oceanfront P.B. Dye golf course, shopping village and true Dominican hospitality are waiting. Hotel can be looked up through airport code PUJ (Punta Cana Airport) or LRM (La Romana).

Intimate Cottages
The Stella Maris Resort Club, Long Island, Bahamas is an intimate cottage-style hotel, offering a wide range of tropical vacation accommodations, superb beaches and the best of water sports. Nature here is unspoiled. Long Island provides delightful scenery, quaint village life, and interesting reminders of its historic past. It is the friendliest and most attractive of all of the Bahams.
Hotel can be looked up through closest airport code LGI, but access is better through GGT (Georgetown, Exuma) or the hotel will pick people up in their plane at GGT or NAS.

All-Inclusive Family Suite
Franklyn D. Resort, St. Ann, Jamaica is Jamaica's first all-suite, all-inclusive resort for families that allows guests to vacation in a private setting similiar to that of an elegant Jamaican home. Located in Runaway Bay, these Seaside Suites for Kith and Kin are set among lush foliage on the Caribbean Sea. Franklin D Resort is Jamaica's premier all-suite, all inclusive family resort where a "Vacation Nanny" is assigned to each family so Mom and Dad can enjoy their vacation too.
Hotel can be looked up through airport code MBJ.

Boutique
Sunswept Hotel Tropical Sunset Complex, Holetown St. James Barbados is a twenty three room property directly on the beach on the beautiful West Coast of Barbados in historic Holetown approx. 8km from Bridgetown. The hotel has a swimming pool set in a small garden with direct access to the beach. All rooms have a sea view. The rooms are well furnished with a kitchenette containing refrigerator, four burner cooking surface, toaster oven, mircrowave oven, coffee maker and toaster. Kitchen utensils, crockery, cutlery, glassware etc. are all provided. The air conditioned rooms have five channel television, clock, radio, ceiling fan and telephone. A restaurant, open for lunch and dinner, is located adjacent to the hotel and within easy walking distance are numerous restaurants to suit every pocket. Supermarket, shops and boutiques abound in Holetown along with banks, post office, public library.
Hotel can be listed under airport codes SLU or UVF.

Luxurious
Green Cay Villas, St. Martin, located on the hillside above famous Orient Beach on the French side of St Martin, Green Cay Villas is the number one choice of those seeking a luxurious villa rental on St Martin / St Maarten. The villa rental complex comprises 16 luxury three bedroom 4,500 square foot villas set in a lush tropical garden, each with its own private swimming pool and one of the top-rated views in the Caribbean. Each one of our 4-star villa rentals on St Martin / St Maarten features three air-conditioned bedrooms, a fully equipped European kitchen, spacious living room and two dining areas. Most of our villas have fantastic ocean views over Orient Bay and others offer more seclusion with a garden view. A safe and tranquil villa rental on St Martin / St Maarten, Green Cay Villas is completely secured, gated and offers year-round 4 star hotel services; Perfect for families, honeymoons, weddings and anyone seeking privacy and tranquillity, your perfect villa rental on St Martin / St Maarten is only five minutes from the beach and ten minutes from Grand Case.
Hotel can be looked up through airport codes SXM (Juliana Airport, Sint Maarten, NA) or SFG (Saint Martin, FWI)

Here's what's new at some major North American ski areas:

Colorado
Colorado, which set a record for skier visits last year with 12.53 million skier days, will offer two new gondolas this year.
• Breckenridge, one of the nation's busiest ski resorts, has built a gondola connecting the town's transportation center off Main Street to Peak 7 and Peak 8. The gondola, which can carry 3,000 passengers per hour, means fewer people riding buses to the mountain. The resort also has added the highest lift in the nation, the high-speed Imperial Express, which goes to 12,840 feet on the summit of Peak 8.
• Several resorts are getting new chairs: Crested Butte is replacing its East River lift with a high-speed quad and Steamboat is replacing its Sunshine triple chair with a high speed.
• Snowmass has installed a new gondola to carry skiers from Fanny Hill to Elk Camp.
• The rustic Wolf Creek is adding its first detachable quad — a four-seat chairlift — and remote Silverton Mountain will be open all year for unguided skiing. It had been restricted to guiding skiing until last spring.

British Columbia
Whistler-Blackcomb in British Columbia has installed the high-speed quad chair Symphony Express to carry riders to the Symphony Amphitheater, 1,000 acres of intermediate and advance terrain with spectacular high-alpine views on Whistler Mountain. The resort also has purchased Whistler Heli-Skiing, which services extensive back-country terrain.

Utah
Utah, which set a record for the third straight year with slightly more than 4 million skier days, has added several high-speed lifts.
• The Canyons near Park City will grow to 3,700 acres with the addition of 200 acres of mostly intermediate to expert terrain that will be served by the DreamCatcher high-speed quad. The resort also is replacing the four-seat Tombstone Express high-speed with a six-pack that will increase uphill capacity 52 percent and reduce congestion.
• Snowbird is opening a ski tunnel, the first of its kind in North America. The tunnel's conveyor lift, at the top of the new high-speed Peruvian Express, will transport riders from Peruvian Gulch into Mineral Basin.
• Deer Valley is replacing the Sterling triple-chair on Bald Mountain with a high-speed quad. Fourteen new snow guns will allow Park City to open more terrain in the early season. Powder Mountain is replacing its Hidden Lake double chair with a high-speed quad.

Around the West
• Mount Bachelor near Bend, Ore., is replacing its most-used lift, the Pine Marten, with a high-speed quad.
• Jackson Hole, in Wyoming, retired its legendary tram in October after 40 years. A $25-million tram will be built to replace it, opening in 2008. In the meantime, a temporary two-seater chair will ferry skiers to the mountaintop from one of the existing lifts.
• In California, North Star at Tahoe is adding a six-person chair. Alpine Meadows has a new 600-foot long super pipe and a terrain park with more than 25 hits, rails, and quarter pipes.
• Big Sky in Montana added 212 acres of open-bowl ski terrain accessed from the Lone Peak Tram in an area called Dakota Territories.
• In Idaho, Sun Valley's Dollar Mountain will be covered from top to bottom with 44 snow guns. •
• Ski Santa Fe has the first new chair in New Mexico in several years, a triple that opens up six new trails from the top of Deception Peak.

The Internet offers the best Opportunity for those willing to take the time, and some risk, to start a small home based business. If you take some of the suggestions this article has to offer, you might find that building your own home based business income opportunity by building up your website is not as hard as you think!

Publishing Articles
Publishing articles online is clearly one of the most proven income generating opportunities that a home based business can use for promoting websites or any small Internet business. The author of an article presents targeted informative content to his or her future customers. Best of all it is free. You do not need to be experienced or be a professional to be able to write articles about your home based business. Having articles that are directly related to the theme of the home based business will in turn give you an edge on the search engine competition. Websites and articles are synergistic because of linking strategies used in them. You may have noticed a link in the first paragraph of this article. Search engines like Google like links! Article directories abound on the Internet. They are countless. Joining multiple article directories will yield more traffic that your home based business will benefit from. The more articles you publish, the more links that occur back to your website from the Article Directory. More relevant links increase the chances that the offer of an income opportunity from your home based business will be seen. Articles are certainly the wings of any home based business income opportunity and the website is the motor.

Using Keywords
Content is king, but the choice of keywords is also an important aspect of your business initiatives. Simply place keywords that you want to use in your website. When writing an article, place the same keywords in the title and in the body of the article. Notice that the keywords income, opportunity, home, based, business occur a number of times in this article. You will be giving your website a boost in the search engine rankings when your article is accepted by the directories and they link back to your website with the same keywords! This is referred to as anchoring your text or anchor text. You can find the search engine ranking of the article directory easily by installing the Google toolbar on your web browser. You will notice that the article directories have some of the highest rankings of all websites. This is due to all the quality submissions and links they get from online publishers like you.

It's a fact of life that without traffic, your website can't make sales. That makes traffic generation the top priority for many webmasters. 

We often make generating traffic to our websites more difficult and expensive in terms of time and other resources than it has to be. Let me share one quick  method that can generate a stream of regular traffic to your website. 

Offer a free or low-cost service from your site. It doesn't have to be webmaster tools, it just needs to be something that brings visitors back to your site over and over again.

You could offer a file hosting and sharing service. Your site visitors would have a convenient place to point family and friends to for accessing their photos, etc.  Visitors could come to your site, upload files, and then access them from various places such as their Ebay auctions, etc.  You could host a recipe generator or recipe converter on your site. You could host quizzes or interactive courses on your site. You could host games on your site. These could even be games where site visitors compete against each other.  This would bring visitors back over and over again.  

With the file sharing and file hosting service, you could charge a nominal fee, and easily earn more than most people do at their regular JOB. You could also offer the service for free, and monetize your site by running your own ads, or by running ads through a service like Google AdSense(TM). I love the file hosting idea because it is so simple, and it's something you can set up for under $20. You can grab the script needed to do this for $17, set it up, and have a traffic magnet in about an hour... if you're fast. You can get that simple, easy to install script at: http://NoHypeInternetMarketing.com/filehost/ 

Generating free, long-term traffic to your website is a snap, not to be over-complicated. Hosting free services works. It's easy to implement, inexpensive, and you should try it!