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Southern California-based Montrose Travel is the newest travel agency to accept UATP for all consolidator (net) fares. Its move to accept UATP accounts demonstrates its commitment to its corporate traveler customers. UATP accounts are actively issued by 15 member airlines and accepted as a form of payment for corporate business travel by more than 200 airlines worldwide. Airlines currently issuing UATP accounts include Aer Lingus, Air New Zealand, Alitalia, American Airlines, Austrian Airlines, British Airways, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Japan Airlines, AirPlus International (Lufthansa German Airlines), Qantas Airways, Ltd., Scandinavian Airlines System, United Airlines, US Airways, and VARIG Brazilian Airlines. Montrose Travel - recently named to Travel Weekly Magazine's 2004 Power List - currently manages the travel programs for over 400 corporations; and…

Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. has acquired the El Encanto Hotel and Garden Villas in the California coastal community of Santa Barbara for $26 million. The Bermuda-headquartered company will invest $10 million in the upgrade of the property. El Encanto was built in 1913 and is located in the Santa Barbara hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. El Encanto is part of the Historic Hotels of America, a program of the National Trust. The hotel features two styles of early Santa Barbara architecture, California Craftsman and Spanish Colonial Revival. The hotel has 88 rooms in cottages and low-rise buildings with plans to increase the number of rooms to 97. Orient-Express Hotels has been in negotiation for several years to acquire the property, interrupted by the death of Eric Friden, its previous owner.

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