Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Tuesday, June 24, 1997
Pleasant Holidays, the Westlake Village, Calif.-based company that has been mass marketing travel to Hawaii since 1959, announced some management changes in line with its expansion into the Mexico market and its upcoming Tahiti tour service. Pleasant Holidays
adds to management teamThe travel wholesaler hired Ronald H. Heuer from Universal Studios Florida, where he was president of Universal City Travel Co. and senior vice president of travel product development. Heuer was named president and chief operating officer of Pleasant's wholesale division. The division includes Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays, Pleasant Mexico Holidays and the new Pleasant Tahitian Holidays, which will start selling Tahiti tour packages in September.
Brian Hogan, who was president and chief operating officer of Pleasant Holidays, is now president of Vacation Acceptance Co., the firm's vacation financing unit.
TRENTON, N.J. -- NCR Corp., the world's top maker of automated teller machines, plans to start offering machines that identify the user by scanning the eye. New automated tellers
will check users' eyesNCR and New Jersey-based Sensar Inc. expect to begin production in a year. NCR will sell and service the system worldwide except Japan, where Sensar will do so.
HOUSTON -- Continental Airlines Inc. said it will pay $73 million to buy out United Micronesia Development Association's 9 percent share of Continental's Air Micronesia Inc. subsidiary. In other news ...