It also operates the website Travelocity.com, which provides customers with pricing information and booking to airlines, hotels, car rental companies, cruise lines, vacation travel packages and other travel-related services.
The model shown in Moscow led to a line of vacation houses, sold in the 1960s under the name Leisurama.
The news on Thursday that the just-married Duke and Duchess of Cambridge — Will and Kate, for those of you in the supermarket check-out line — would vacation in California this summer was no doubt exciting for residents, and tourism officials, up and down the state.
Encouraged by federal flood insurance, islands whose very existence is ephemeral have been lined with vacation homes.
Parts of the seven-mile beach, lined with vacation homes on stilts, resemble military construction sites, with snaking orange booms, portable restrooms and cruising Bobcat loaders and National Guard Humvees.
While we were the only ones parked there, we noticed the ground under the sign was trampled with footprints and littered with film wrappers, making it easy to imagine, at the height of summer, a whole line of vacationing families waiting their chance to pose.
Checking Snapchat, I saw friends zip lining on vacation and drinking champagne; Instagram showed me some young writers celebrating a book deal with perfectly-frosted desserts; Facebook basically displayed a never-ending slideshow of acquaintances that were purchasing homes, getting married, and having babies.
But there's one more weekend to go before the bathing suits go back in the drawers, and before a telephone call to a business actually produces a human being on the other end of the line instead of vacation voice mail.
Upon reaching the American border, I was expecting long vacation lines.
But then, Buckley writes, he made "the biggest mistake of my life: With a vacation lined up for the first week of December, I told her I'd get to it when I returned to Boston -- just before Christmas".
