81.   Rashad said that independent travelers were again making reservations and that he expected the tour companies to follow.

82.   Q. A friend of mine just got ripped off by an unethical tour company.

83.   Q. What tour companies offer trips to southern Germany to performances of Wagner operas at the Bayreuth Festival this year?

84.   Reports indicate that new guerrilla threats against U.S. and British visitors had not been forwarded to tour companies.

85.   Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., last week urged the Justice Department to act against the air tour companies.

86.   Seal Watch, a program offered by Natural Habitat Adventures, a nature tour company based in Boulder, Colo., provides visits to the icefields by helicopter.

87.   Shrestha also received a small stipend from a Massachusetts tour company that paid his rent on a room in Katmandu.

88.   Several tour companies and clubs cater to the solo traveler.

89.   So the six-member department, headquartered in Bethlehem, will be limited to licensing hotels, tour companies and guides, and supervising souvenir shops.

90.   Some tour companies also argue that boycotts can do more harm than good because they affect local people.