SOURCE: Travel Advantage Network Local Company Takes Steps Each Month to Engage Employees and Charities MILLERSVILLE, MD–(Marketwire – September 14, 2010) – Employees of Travel Advantage Network (TAN), a wholesale vacation accommodations program, raised $3,500 during a month-long fundraising effort for the National Audubon Society.  Largely encouraged by the company’s president, Travel Advantage Network employees seize the altruistic spirit each month by campaigning for one of a diverse selection of charities. During the month of July, employees of TAN’s marketing department chose to support the National Audubon Society in an effort to provide important resources for volunteers and the vital work being done on the Gulf of Mexico and its surrounding natural habitats.  “Audubon is grateful to Travel Advantage Network and all those whose generous support for our Gulf response and recovery effort is helping us make a difference for birds and their habitat,” stated Tom Bancroft, Chief Scientist of National Audubon Society. Fundraising efforts for the National Audubon Society featured a silent auction boasting such items as local restaurant gift cards, lunch with Travel Advantage Network’s General Manager, as well as Baltimore Orioles baseball tickets. Additional events included a pay-to-wear-jeans day, ice cream socials, as well as being sponsored by a local restaurant for an evening, with 20% the cost of each employee’s meal going towards the charity. For information about Travel Advantage Network and its monthly charitable efforts, please visit PlanWithTAN.com or the Travel Advantage Network charity blog .

SOURCE: L.A.

SOURCE: Tourism Tofino Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Contest Expanded to Include Pacific Rim National Park Beaches SANTA CRUZ, CA and TOFINO, BC–(Marketwire – September 14, 2010) –  O’Neill www.oneill.com , leading the way in surf products and apparel since 1952, and Tourism Tofino, a British Columbia destination marketing organization, today announced that the O’Neill Cold Water Classic Canada 2010 www.oneill.com/cwc — Canada’s only professional surfing competition sanctioned by the Association of Surfing Professionals www.aspworldtour.com — will again be held in Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island from October 9-15, 2010. In its second year, the O’Neill Coldwater Classic utilizes a mobile format allowing competitors to take advantage of the best available surfing conditions at various beaches in each competition location. Should wave and wind conditions warrant, this year’s O’Neill Coldwater Classic Canada can be expanded beyond the District of Tofino to include beaches within Pacific Rim National Park Reserve — a Parks Canada protected area comprising three units — Long Beach, the Broken Group Islands and the West Coast Trail

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA–(Marketwire – Sept.