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Inspiring Vacations Responds to the Changing Habits of Australian Travellers
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Inspiring Vacations Responds to the Changing Habits of Australian Travellers

As travel returns following the pandemic, Inspiring Vacations is responding to the changing travel habits of Australians with tours to two of the world's most fascinating destinations.

Inspiring Vacations Responds to the Changing Habits of Australian Travellers
Inspiring Vacations

Inspiring Vacations

The Australian tourism industry is experiencing a shift in travel habits with a preference for domestic destinations and sustainable tourism. Inspiring Vacations, a leading travel company, has responded by offering new tours of Egypt and tours to Cape York, two of the world's most fascinating destinations.

Inspiring Vacations' tours to Egypt offer an unforgettable experience of the country's rich history and culture. The tours cover popular destinations like Cairo, Luxor and Aswan and include visits to iconic landmarks such as the Great Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx. These Egypt tours also provide an opportunity to discover the ancient temples of Karnak, the Valley of the Kings and the temples of Abu Simbel, among other attractions.

As more travellers seek to minimise their impact on the environment and support local communities, Inspiring Vacations has implemented sustainable practices such as using eco-friendly accommodations, reducing plastic waste and promoting responsible tourism activities. By making conscious travel choices, Inspiring Vacations says travellers can contribute to the preservation of Egypt's cultural and natural heritage while also supporting the local economy.       

The company also offers tours to Cape York, providing travellers with the opportunity to explore one of Australia's most remote and unspoiled wilderness areas. These tours take visitors to the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, where they can discover rugged landscapes, ancient Indigenous cultures and unique flora and fauna. The tours of Cape York include visits to the region's most iconic locations, such as the Jardine River National Park, the Great Barrier Reef and the Torres Strait Islands.

Inspiring Vacations recognises that travellers are looking for experiences that are closer to home and provide an opportunity to explore their own country, and caters to this demand while providing a safe and unforgettable experience. 

With the rise of domestic tourism, small businesses are becoming increasingly important to the tourism industry. Inspiring Vacations is committed to supporting local businesses in Cape York, ensuring that travellers have an authentic and sustainable experience.

To learn more about tours on offer from Inspiring Vacations, visit https://www.inspiringvacations.com/au 

About Inspiring Vacations

Inspiring Vacations is an Australian-owned, globally operated tour operator offering exceptional travel experiences to customers worldwide. With a range of carefully crafted tour packages, the company takes pride in creating unique and unforgettable trips to the world's most iconic destinations.

Contact Information:

Inspiring Vacations

Marketing Manager

[email protected]

1300 88 66 88

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As House Republicans Push an Extreme Budget That Slashes Rail Safety Inspections, USDOT Highlights New Efforts to Keep Communities Safe and Hold the Rail Industry Accountable
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As House Republicans Push an Extreme Budget That Slashes Rail Safety Inspections, USDOT Highlights New Efforts to Keep Communities Safe and Hold the Rail Industry Accountable

Tuesday, May 9, 2023 Following the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, USDOT has pushed a set of sweeping reforms to rail safety and called on Congress to support a budget that improves critical rail infrastructure and ensures rail inspections continue without interruption Washington, DC— As part of its ongoing work to protect the American […]

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Background Press Call on New Artificial Intelligence Announcements

Via Teleconference 6:36 P.M. EDT MS. PATTERSON:  Thanks, everyone, for hoping on today’s press call.  Today, we’ll be discussing a new AI announcement from the Biden-Harris administration. On today’s call will be [senior administration official].  After she delivers remarks, we’ll open up the call for Q&A from reporters. As a reminder, this call is on background, attributable to […]

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U.S. DOT, GSA Celebrate Two Trailblazing Former Secretaries by Naming DOT’s Headquarters in Their Honor
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U.S. DOT, GSA Celebrate Two Trailblazing Former Secretaries by Naming DOT’s Headquarters in Their Honor

Washington, D.C. – Today U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and U.S. General Services Administrator Robin Carnahan formally announced the naming of the U.S. DOT headquarters building to the William T. Coleman, Jr. and Norman Y. Mineta Federal Building, dedicated for two transformational former Secretaries of Transportation and fulfilling bipartisan legislation passed in Congress. At an […]

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Voon Launches New THC Pouches for the Ultimate Vegas Experience
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Voon Launches New THC Pouches for the Ultimate Vegas Experience

Experience the ultimate Vegas buzz with Voon's THC pouches. Break free from smoking restrictions and embrace Sin City's wild side.

Voon Launches New THC Pouches for the Ultimate Vegas Experience
Smokeless, Fast-Acting and Discrete- Introducing 20mg THC Pouches from Voon

Free yourself from all smoking restrictions with Voon's 20mg THC pouches. Fast-Acting, Potent, Vegan and Cost-Effective - these pouches will enhance your Sin City experience to the max.

Voon, a leading innovator in pouch-in-mouth products, is excited to announce the launch of their newest product, THC pouches. These pouches provide a new level of freedom to those visiting Sin City by liberating them from the constraints of smoking restrictions on the strip and the fear of judgment. Voon THC pouches provide the perfect way to experience the wild side of Vegas anytime and anywhere.

With 20mg of THC per pouch, Voon users can enjoy a continuous and smooth buzz that allows them to stay on top of every moment of the action. Whether they are taking on the casinos, attending a show, enjoying a festival, or partying the night away, users can stay energized and ready to go with these "pick-me-up" pouches.

One of the greatest advantages of Voon THC pouches is the ability to allow users to stay in the zone. Visitors to Las Vegas can keep the excitement going, whether they are exploring the city or trying their luck at the slot machines. There is no need to find a designated smoking area to maintain that buzz, allowing users to enjoy every moment of Vegas with no fuss. Furthermore, the proprietary technology behind the pouches ensures a quick onset within 5 minutes. Simply wedge the pouch between the upper lip and gum and let it release.

"We are thrilled to introduce our newest product, Voon THC pouches, to the market. These pouches provide users with a simple, convenient and discreet way to enjoy the excitement of Vegas without worrying about smoking restrictions," said Voon Innovations CEO Frank Svandal. "Our slim white pouches provide a seamless and enduring buzz to help visitors experience Sin City to the fullest. With Voon THC pouches, visitors to Las Vegas no longer need to worry about smoking restrictions and truly enjoy their Sin City cannabis journey."

Voon Innovations is a Swedish based company with ample experience in pouch-in-mouth technology. The team of experts behind Voon is committed to providing high-quality cannabis pouch products to consumers. In addition to being a smokeless and odorless cannabis alternative, Voon pouches use only natural ingredients that are sugarless and vegan-friendly. Voon THC pouches are currently available at Planet 13 in 2 strains, with more to be available very soon. Follow Voon THC's Instagram @GoVoon to stay updated.

Voon is launching in the United States in Nevada with "the grow up co-op." A sales and marketing cooperative of conscientious and intentional cannabis brands. For information on expansion and retail opportunities, please contact Tina Ulman or Dani Baranowski at [email protected]

Contact Information:

Tina Ulman

Managing Partner

[email protected]

702-493-1856

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Breaking Barriers: Six Teachers Honored for Achieving Dramatic Growth in Students’ Reading
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Breaking Barriers: Six Teachers Honored for Achieving Dramatic Growth in Students’ Reading

ReadTheory, an adaptive reading comprehension platform used by 18 million students in schools worldwide, celebrates the success of their 2023 Teacher of the Year Award winners.

The 2022-2023 school year was challenging for teachers, as students entered classrooms at more varying levels than any other school year. With teacher nominations spanning 31 countries, the six awardees come from different regions with varying specialties, but they have one thing in common - they rose to the occasion and made an incredible impact on student achievement - despite ongoing challenges posed by the pandemic's learning loss.

The 2023 awardees are:

Elementary School Teacher of the Year: Anne Stehly, CA

Middle School Teacher of the Year: Caitlyn Herron, TX

High School Teacher of the Year: Carrie Kirkland, GA

Special Education Teacher of the Year: Kelly Stehlik, IN

ESL Teacher of the Year: Kevin Jordan, CA

International Teacher of the Year: Michael Doherty, Spain

"This year's reading scores fell by the largest margin in over 30 years, but these teachers were determined to make a difference," said Ron Kirschenbaum, Co-Managing Partner at ReadTheory.

Anne Stehly, a 3rd-grade teacher, and awardee from Rio School District in CA, wanted to change the trajectory. While there are many ways to measure students' growth, she started charting her students' Lexile Levels. "My 3rd graders started with a class average of a 275 Lexile Level and we just made our 600 Lexile Level goal on ReadTheory. My students are never discouraged by challenging passages because they've seen so much growth already, they know they will reach their next reading goal," she shares.

With such limited classroom time and learning gaps to fill, teachers had to get creative this year. Carrie Kirkland, the Dougherty County, GA awardee, found it necessary to give each student unique intervention and personalized time. "My students spend 30 minutes, three times a week, practicing on ReadTheory. The fact that the system operates on its own allows me the chance to have 1:1s with them." Kevin Jordan, an awardee from Los Angeles Unified School District in CA, also holds 1:1s with his students and uses data to drive instruction, "ReadTheory allows me to have solid metrics, so when I meet with students, we know where to improve their skills for course completion."

These educators put immense energy, imagination, and effort into their instruction to leave students feeling inspired and transformed. "While ReadTheory is a powerful tool, it is exceptional teachers like Anne, Caitlyn, Carrie, Kelly, Kevin, and Michael who make the real difference in their students' learning," says Josh Capon, Co-Managing partner at ReadTheory. 

About ReadTheory

ReadTheory's adaptive reading comprehension platform is used by 18 million students across the globe and is tailored for each. For more information on ReadTheory, visit www.readtheory.org

Contact Information:

Courtney Gacona Cioci

Head of Marketing

[email protected]

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Breaking Barriers: Six Teachers Honored for Achieving Dramatic Growth in Students' Reading

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Roadtrippers Launches Major Product Update With RV GPS, Helping Users Enjoy Safer Road Trips
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Roadtrippers Launches Major Product Update With RV GPS, Helping Users Enjoy Safer Road Trips

The new feature pairs Roadtrippers' best-in-class trip planner with up-to-date navigation tailored for your RV

Roadtrippers, the #1 road trip planning tool that helps roadtrippers turn their trips into adventures, is enhancing its product offering to help RVers find safer routes. The road trip planning experience that millions have enjoyed now incorporates RV-friendly route planning and GPS navigation in a single convenient experience.

Standalone GPS devices for RVing can be expensive, and keeping those devices up-to-date with the latest information and data can be inconvenient. Roadtrippers' new RV GPS feature eliminates those issues by providing RVers with navigation that is not only tailored for their RV, but is also up-to-date and accessible from their phone through the Roadtrippers app.

"RVers have unique needs when it comes to navigation, and we're excited to offer a solution that makes it seamless for them to plan and enjoy epic road trips," said Tim Balzer, VP of Product for Roadtrippers. "Our new RV GPS feature is designed to make RV travel safer and more convenient, so the RV community can enjoy the open road."

Early access to the RV GPS feature is included exclusively with Roadtrippers Plus, the app's premium membership. With Roadtrippers Plus, RVers can map out routes based on their RV's height, propane restrictions, and more, ensuring that they find the safest roads for their travels. A Plus membership also includes collaboration with friends, as many as 150 stops per trip, an ad-free experience, and more.

"We want our users to be able to focus on enjoying their RV adventures, and skip the scary stuff," said Balzer. "With the first release of this new feature, RVers can enjoy all of the famously fun Roadtrippers features like Extraordinary Places, while also having peace of mind out on the road."

RV GPS is available for navigation within the United States in the Roadtrippers app, for both iOS and Android devices.

Roadtrippers is part of Roadpass Digital's portfolio of leading digital apps that provide campers, RVers, and roadtrippers with end-to-end trip discovery and planning tools.

To learn more about Roadtrippers, visit https://roadtrippers.com/ or contact [email protected]

About Roadtrippers 
Roadtrippers is the #1 road trip planning tool, helping people experience the world around them in an entirely new way by streamlining discovery, planning, booking, and navigation into an engaging and intuitive process. Since launching in 2012, Roadtrippers has helped its users plan more than 38 million trips covering more than 42 billion miles. To learn more about Roadtrippers, visit roadtrippers.com and follow @roadtrippers on Instagram.  

About Roadpass Digital 
Roadpass Digital is focused on making it easier to experience, own, and maintain recreational vehicles and more easily discover, book, and navigate road trips. Learn more about Roadpass Digital and Campendium, Roadtrippers, and Togo RV products at roadpass.com.

Contact Information:

Lauren Lillis

Director, Marketing & Communi

[email protected]

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Pizza Inn Reenters Texoma Market With Today’s Opening of New Buffet-Style Restaurant
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Pizza Inn Reenters Texoma Market With Today’s Opening of New Buffet-Style Restaurant

Popular Restaurant Brand Continues Dynamic Growth Strategy With Opening of Third New Restaurant in Four Weeks

Pizza Inn Reenters Texoma Market With Today’s Opening of New Buffet-Style Restaurant
Pizza Inn Opens in Sherman, TX

Sherman, Texas, franchisees Charlie and Jeannie Clark

Pizza Inn, America's Hometown Pizza Buffet, today announced the return of Pizza Inn to the Texoma region of North Texas with the opening of a new restaurant in Sherman. The family-focused dine-in buffet is reintroducing the market to its numerous signature pizzas, traditional pastas, and distinctive desserts, called Pizzerts®, as well as its robust, all-you-can-eat, fresh salad bar, filled with an array of house-cut ingredients, popular toppings, and six different dressings, including house-made ranch. 

The reintroduction of Pizza Inn to Grayson County further illustrates the company's proactive strategy to reclaim a leadership position within the restaurant industry. During the past two years, the brand has introduced a new prototype and imagery, reported 12 consistent quarters of profitability, announced positive net growth of buffet units, experienced consistent sales increases, and garnered the attention of franchisees around the world.     

According to the CEO of Pizza Inn's parent company, RAVE Restaurant Group (NASDAQ: RAVE), Brandon Solano, "Pizza Inn has remained a hometown favorite in markets across the Southern United States for 65 years. Customers love our pizzas with house-made dough we make fresh at every store, every day, 100% whole milk mozzarella that's shredded in-house, and the opportunity to top them with a variety of freshly cut toppings. The fact is, many people in this area remember Pizza Inn as an impactful part of their childhood. That's why we're bringing our updated look and buffet-style business model back to markets in which we once thrived, like the Sherman-Denison area. We are recapturing these fans and leveraging our 'latent brand equity' in these communities."

Adds Solano, "Our healthy pipeline of new stores shows that this strategy is working. We've always focused on really good food, genuine value, and convenience — and people remember that. They also remember and have missed the experience of enjoying an abundant buffet of quality food, where everyone gets to eat what they want and no one has to do the dishes. That's what makes us the go-to place for people of all ages to meet, relax, and celebrate together."

Franchisees of the Sherman Pizza Inn are Charlie and Jeannie Clark who also own a Pizza Inn franchise in Durant, Oklahoma. Today, they are hosting a celebratory grand opening event with local dignitaries at the restaurant, located in the Canyon Creek Shopping Center, at 2121 N Heritage Parkway. 

Franchisee Charlie Clark stated, "We are happy to bring Pizza Inn back to the area and have received lots of feedback from people in the community who seem just as excited as we are." He adds, "Our new restaurant includes a party room with a TV, a game room for big and little kids that resembles the old Gold Mine from Sher-Den Mall. If you grew up in the area, you remember. You'll also see the rails to the catwalk that was torn down this past year as you're exiting the restaurant. Finally, since I'm a 1990 Sherman Bearcat myself, we have Bearcats memorabilia adorning the walls." 

Clark enthusiastically proclaimed, "We cater to all ages with our discounted Monday Night Seniors Buffet and Tuesday Night Kids Buffet special. In fact, we look forward to working with all local schools, businesses, and the community to provide the best pizza buffet in town."

The Sherman Pizza Inn employs 40 full-time and part-time employees and seats 98 guests. It offers signature pizzas including Chicken Fajita, Loaded Baked Potato, Buffalo Chicken, and Taco pizza, as well as extremely popular Pizzerts®. Hours of operation are Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For the restaurant nearest you, and more information on the entire menu, visit pizzainn.com. Franchising information can be found at pizzainn.com/franchise.

About RAVE Restaurant Group, Inc.

Dallas-based RAVE Restaurant Group [NASDAQ: RAVE] has inspired restaurant innovation and countless customer smiles with its trailblazing pizza concepts. The Company owns, franchises, licenses and supplies Pie Five and Pizza Inn restaurants operating domestically and internationally. The Pizza Inn experience is unlike your typical buffet. Since 1958, Pizza Inn's house-shredded 100% whole milk mozzarella cheese, fresh ingredients and house-made signature sauce combined with friendly service solidified the brand to become America's favorite hometown pizza place. This, in addition to its small-town vibe, are the hallmarks of Pizza Inn restaurants. In 2011, RAVE introduced Pie Five Pizza, pioneering a fast-casual pizza brand that transformed the classic pizzeria into a concept offering personalization, sophisticated ingredients and speed. Pie Five's craft pizzas are baked fresh daily and feature house-made ingredients, creative recipes and craveable crust creations. For more information, visit www.raverg.com and follow on Instagram @pizzainn and @piefivepizza.

About Pizza Inn

Since 1958, Pizza Inn's popular pizza buffet and friendly service have solidified the brand as America's hometown pizza place. Unlike your typical buffet, Pizza Inn built a reputation for using house-shredded 100% whole milk mozzarella cheese, fresh ingredients and house-made signature sauce. This, combined with its small-town vibe, are the hallmarks of its restaurants that feature signature pan pizzas, chocolate chip "pizzerts," pasta dishes, salads and innovative creations that reflect today's customer cravings. The brand continues to thrive with new menu innovations, including its popular NYXL pizza. Follow Pizza Inn on Instagram @pizzainn and to learn more about franchising opportunities, visit www.pizzainn.com/franchise.

Contact Information:

Cozette Phifer

Public Relations

[email protected]

6024693199

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Pizza Inn Reenters Texoma Market With Today's Opening of New Buffet-Style Restaurant

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FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Celebrates Small Business and Manufacturing Boom

Vice President Visits State Small Business Credit Initiative Recipient and Releases New Report Demonstrating Administration’s Support for Small Manufacturers Today, in celebration of National Small Business Week and in recognition of the critical role that small manufacturing businesses play in the economy, the White House released a report detailing how the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in […]

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