UTA French Airlines is adding an extra...

UTA French Airlines is adding an extra flight to its services to Tahiti and Paris from San Francisco during June, July and August. Flights to Paris will be Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 9:25 p.m., and to Tahiti on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays at 11:50 p.m.

APA Travel, Beverly Hills, will hold a cruise night, “Friendly Far Away Places,” on Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Ramada Inn, 1150 S. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills. Refreshments, door prizes and films will be featured. Call (213) 652-3080 for reservations.

The Bon Voyagers Travel Club will meet Friday at the Community Room, 9696 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. The slide/lecture program will be “Undiscovered Italy.” A social hour is included in the $5 admission. For information call (213) 472-5726.

Philip Scriver will give three slide presentations on walking in the British Isles. They will be Feb. 24 at the Glendale Central Library, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 25 at REI, 9 City Blvd. W., City of Orange, 7 p.m., and Feb. 27 at Veterans’ Memorial Building, Culver City, 7:30 p.m. Call (213) 641-6004 for information.

A six-week series of illustrated lectures to help business people and other travelers understand China will be presented by Golden West College Community Services on Mondays beginning Feb. 23. Lecturers will be Sheila Brazier, William Shawl, Grayce Roessler and Michele Burgess. Single lecture is $4; the series, $20. Call (714) 891-3991 for information.

Photographer-lecturer Tovya Wager will present a talk, “Traveling Along the Old Silk Road of China,” at the meeting of the U.S. China Peoples Friendship Assn., Westside-Los Angeles chapter, on Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mercury Savings & Loan Building, 10435 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles. For information call (213) 654-1161.

Travel author Louise Purwin Zobel will conduct a two-day seminar, “Making Your Trip Pay for Itself,” at UC Santa Barbara on March 14 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and March 15 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The class can be taken for credit. Fee is $85. Call (805) 961-3231 or write the school, Santa Barbara 93106.

The 6th annual Live and Silent Travel Auction and Luncheon, sponsored by the Las Madrecitas Auxiliary of the Crippled Children’s Guild of Orthopaedic Hospital, will be held March 8 at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel beginning at 9:30 a.m. All proceeds go to the endowment fund of the hospital. Reservations are $25. Call (213) 378-3671 for information.