In the fall of 1998 E-Trade rolled out its first financial planning portal, Destination E-Trade.

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Several new features have been added such as an Explore Trip Ideas section with interactive maps to help visitors discover points-of-interest on public lands when planning trips to popular destination cities like Atlanta, Miami, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and more.

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The SIP, which emerged out of rice fields and farmland, is a truly remarkable example of how planning can transform a sleepy tourist destination into an economic juggernaut. (This also remains one of my favorite economic development stories in all of China.) Two key factors drove the development of the SIP.

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The app also includes travel planning tools to book a trip, destination guides, flight check-in, an interactive trip map and the "What's Next" feature to help guide customers to the next point in their journey.

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Studies show that drivers in the U.S. spend an average of eight minutes cruising for city parking, mainly so they can find a space free or at the lowest price possible within the shortest distance of their destination, according to Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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He also faced charges before a Kenyan court for planning terror attacks in Mombasa, Kenya's second-largest city and a popular tourist destination.

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