International Business News - Tour http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Things got a little spookier than expected during a ghost tour when a driver lost control of her car and plowed into the group. The Charleston Post and Courier reported two people suffered minor injuries in the Tuesday night accident near Charleston's famous Four Corners of Law at Meeting and Broad streets. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/ghost-tour-spooked-after-car-plows-into-group.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:01:13 EST The LPGA Tour has become the latest pro sports organization to feel the crunch of the global economic downturn. Even while insisting next year will be "solidly profitable," the LPGA Tour announced Wednesday that it will offer three fewer tournaments in 2009 than this year, all because of sponsorship loss. Prize money also will dip by about $5 million. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/lpga-offers-31-tourneys-in-09-down-from-34.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:38:47 EST An economic analysis of the Tour of Missouri found that spectators spent $30 million during last month's professional bike race that wound through the state. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081017/tour-of-missouri-bike-race-becomes-campaign-issue.htm Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:16:13 EDT Germany's two national public broadcasters are dropping live coverage of the Tour de France after recent doping cases. The ARD radio and television network and the ZDF network, which are financed in part by monthly fees paid by viewers, both said they would limit the coverage of the tour to reports on their sports news programs. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081016/german-tv-to-drop-live-tour-de-france-coverage.htm Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:20:56 EDT Philadelphia's plan to test and license tour guides is on hold. Lawyers for three tour guides who challenged the plan say a federal judge Monday temporarily blocked the city from enforcing the testing law. It was scheduled to take effect next Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/philly-wont-enforce-tour-guide-testing-_-for-now.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:34:46 EDT Members of Iowa's congressional delegation took a tour through downtown Cedar Rapids on Monday and heard business owner complaints about the cost of rebuilding. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/congressional-delegation-hears-about-flood-woes.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:50:26 EDT Philadelphia's plan to test and license tour guides is on hold. Lawyers for three tour guides who challenged the plan say a federal judge Monday temporarily blocked the city from enforcing the testing law. It was scheduled to take effect next Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/philly-wont-enforce-tour-guide-testing-_-for-now.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:51:25 EDT Cycling's world governing body and Tour de France organizers agreed Thursday to end years of feuding over control of the sport. The deal followed telephone negotiations between Pat McQuaid, president of the International Cycling Union, and French Editions Philippe Amaury, which owns the Tour de France. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/cycling-foes-agree-on-deal-to-end-4-year-feud.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:22:06 EDT Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez began a five-nation tour Sunday with a stop in Cuba to visit ailing former leader Fidel Castro. Photographs released by the Venezuelan government showed a beaming Chavez and Castro's brother, current Cuban President Raul Castro, embracing at Jose Marti airport in Havana. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/136219-cuba-venezuela.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/chavez-begins-5-nation-tour-with-visit-to-castro.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/chavez-begins-5-nation-tour-with-visit-to-castro.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:16:45 EDT Several Tour de France riders are having their blood samples retested for traces of the banned blood-booster EPO. The head of the French Anti-Doping Agency told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the testing involved riders who were already under scrutiny for suspicious urine samples. Pierre Bordry declined to name the cyclists. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/132613-tour-de-france-doping-cycling.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080917/several-tour-de-france-riders-retested-for-epo.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080917/several-tour-de-france-riders-retested-for-epo.htm Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:25:09 EDT After Madonna included a video with political content at her "Sticky & Sweet" tour in Europe; groups have strongly criticized her comparison of John McCain to dictator Adolph Hitler. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080826/madonna-controversy-sticky-sweet-tour-live-nation-mccain-obama.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:23:13 EDT Madonna's "Sticky & Sweet" Tour made its debut on Saturday in the U.K. at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales with a capacity of more than 70,000 people. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080825/madonna-sticky-sweet-tour-live-nation-mccain-obama.htm Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:20:38 EDT Cycling's governing body says it has struck a deal with the operators of the Tour de France to settle a yearslong dispute that has led to a string of court cases. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080818/uci-says-dispute-with-tour-organizer-is-over.htm Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:47:35 EDT An anti-President Bush museum rolled into his adopted hometown but found few willing to enter the biodiesel bus devoted to casting his legacy as a failure. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/104408-bush-legacy-tour.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080807/few-tour-anti-bush-bus-during-crawford-stop.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080807/few-tour-anti-bush-bus-during-crawford-stop.htm Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:49:34 EDT The Philadelphia Orchestra has canceled its 2009 European festivals tour because of rising travel costs and a lack of sponsors to help pay for the trip. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080729/philadelphia-orchestra-cancels-2009-european-tour.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:47:31 EDT With yardsticks in hand, representatives of the wheat industry will be walking through fields and counting kernels in North Dakota this week. The wheat quality tour, organized by the region's Wheat Quality Council, starts in Fargo with a training session and car assignments,then heads to western North Dakota. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080728/wheat-quality-tour-starts-in-north-dakota.htm Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:49:19 EDT From the very start to the very finish, doping was along for the ride on the Tour de France. The final act Sunday was supposed to be a champagne-sipping, idyllic run to the Champs-Elysees for winner Carlos Sastre of Spain. Instead, it was yet another announcement of a positive drug test. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/98993-tour-de-france-cycling.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080727/spains-sastre-wins-doping-scarred-tour-de-france.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080727/spains-sastre-wins-doping-scarred-tour-de-france.htm Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:09:27 EDT Mariah Carey, who married with Nick Cannon, is planning a tour to promote her album, E=MC² starting this November. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/mariah-carey-nick-cannon-tour-album-promotion.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:40:24 EDT A labor union-backed coalition formed after a worker's death in a Tulsa plant last year is touring the country, claiming Cintas Corp., the nation's largest uniform supplier, puts production quotas and profit margins ahead of workplace safety. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/cintas-workers-criticize-companys-safety-record.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:32:08 EDT Cycling's image is in tatters, and authorities inside and outside the sport are being tougher than ever on doping. Yet it hasn't stopped the drug cheaters at the Tour de France. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/96537-tour-de-france-doping.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/why-dope-riders-dont-fear-tests-rewards-beckon.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/why-dope-riders-dont-fear-tests-rewards-beckon.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:36:34 EDT