Saturday, April 21, 2012

Tech-Savvy Traveler; week's best travel bargains

The Tech-Savvy Traveler
New York Times
Here are excerpts from a conversation about how the latest technology can ease your travels. Q. Do you use Facebook, Twitter or other social networks for travel? A. I used to post on Twitter, “Hey, I'm in Baltimore. What's the good word here?

What's the Deal? This week's best travel bargains around the globe.
Washington Post
This week's best travel bargains around the globe Land l Starwood Hotels and Resorts properties, which include Sheraton and Westin, are offering a Pay Your Birth Year promotion. Pay the regular rate for the first night and your birth year for the ...

Flash travel sale details: Jetsetter, LivingSocial, Groupon, SniqueAway, more
Washington Post
A web of sites Flash sale Web sites are on a tear, with more new companies (or old ones with the trendy feature) jockeying for our vacation days. This subspecies of travel planning has even spawned its own aggregator, EveryLodge, which launched this ...

Hotel Review: Boca Beach Club in Boca Raton, Fla.
New York Times
THE UPSHOT Boca Beach Club offers a full beach vacation and access to a high-end resort. If you leave your car with the valet, you won't need it until checkout. Rates start at $399 for a standard room in high season, and $219 in low.

New York Times

Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Titanic Belfast
Reuters
Although there are still some rough neighborhoods that remain segregated and aren't tourist-friendly around July 12 (A public holiday when historic tensions can reignite), most of the main streets in central Belfast where warring paramilitary groups ...

Travel Picks: Top 10 wacky sports around the world
Reuters
But while waiting for the world's elite athletes to take the stage, online travel adviser Cheapflights has come up with a top 10 list of no-frills, high-adrenaline and wacky sports which might be entertaining. Reuters has not endorsed this list: 1.

United Air to beef up travel perks, offerings
Reuters
By Kyle Peterson (Reuters) - Air travel demand for the prime summer vacation season is strong, which supports higher fares, but United Airlines aims to bolster other sources of revenue by selling new products and services, the chief executive of the ...

Are Travel Agents Back?
New York Times
She had finagled her savings the old-fashioned way: through a travel agent. “I needed recommendations and someone to steer me in the right direction,” said Ms. Griffin, who opted to work with an agent after years of making her own reservations because ...

New York Times

Travel + Leisure Magazine Names Minneapolis-St. Paul International the Best ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PAUL, Minn., Apr 20, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- According to the April 2012 issue of Travel + Leisure magazine, Minneapolis-St. Paul International is the best airport in America. "We take travelers' opinions of our airport very seriously, ...

Flash sales on Groupon, LivingSocial, other Web sites are changing travel buying
Washington Post
Step away from the computer for a moment and ask yourself these questions: Are you interested in the Spruce Point Inn because the Maine resort is on your life list or because it's on sale at SniqueAway for $159 a night? Is the real appeal the seaside ...

'Eva' app does the job of a human travel agent
Fox News
PRNewsFoto/WMPH Vacations Travel search engine Evature on Thursday launched a version of its software in app form that lets you ask a virtual travel agent all your travel booking questions, which aims to cut down on laborious online searches.

Friday Travel Ticker: Yosemite road opens
Los Angeles Times
Times travel writer Christopher Reynolds discusses our never-ending fascination with the Titanic at the Times Festival of Books, Sunday at 1:15 pm, at the Times Pavilion at USC. . . .Travel quote of the day: “Most of my treasured memories of travel ...

Summer Vacation, Close to Home
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Mariam Brillantes High airline fares to Europe put Paris out of reach as a summer vacationdestination. It has been awhile since my family and I have gone abroad, and I was excited to plan another trip this year. I had narrowed down the choices to ...

Department of Cultural Tourism | Next Stop Glasgow
New York Times (blog)
Though Glasgow is sometimes referred to as Scotland's second city, there's nothing second-rate about it, especially not its red-hot art scene. After London, it's the most art-filled city in the United Kingdom, at least if you go by the number of recent ...

Viator.com Announces Three "Win Your Dream Travel Job" Finalists
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The final spot in the "Win Your Dream Travel Job" Contest from Viator.com - the leading resource for more than 9000 tours and activities in over 150 countries - will be revealed on Monday, April 30. In order to be considered in the final judging period ...

Do We Have a Right to Vacation?
ABC News
Does that right extend to vacation? For more travel news and insights view Rick's blog at farecompare.com Studies show we need time off. Too much work and the resulting stress can lead to depression, heart attacks and more. Now ask someone you know (if ...

ABC News

California to Boost International Visitor Spending by Hosting USA's Top ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Hosting IPW in Los Angeles this year and San Francisco last year gave Visit California an incredible opportunity to show off our diverse tourism product to the world's most influential and top-producing buyers of US travel products.

8 travel apps that could save your life
Fox News
While there is no way to know where and when to be ready for a travel disaster, these eight apps can solve the problem of how. These apps will prepare you for the worst case scenarios and could end up saving your life when you're in uncharted territory ...

Travel Insured International Launches New Group Products
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Travel Insured International®, the leading privately owned travel insurance provider, has launched a new and improved version of their travel insurance option for group and student group travel protection. East Hartford, CT (PRWEB) April 19, ...

African Travel, Inc. Supports Earth Day Awareness for Endangered Gorillas and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Another significant contributor towards protection of the Mountain Gorillas is tourism! When travelers visit Africa using a knowledgeable company such as African Travel, they are making a huge contribution to the conservation of Mountain Gorillas.

Lawyer2Lawyer: Transparency in Congressional Travel · Robert ...
By Robert Ambrogi
Members of Congress and their staffers who travel at the expense of private organizations must follow a long list of legal restrictions and requirements. However, a little-known law, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, ...
Robert Ambrogi's LawSites

KNX On Your Corner: Tourism Dollars « CBS Los Angeles
By Staff
Orange County tourism is generating billions of dollars in revenue. And as KNX 1070's ...http://scriptnulled.eu/2012/04/20/knx-on-your-corner-tourism-dollars/ KNX On Your Corner:Tourism Dollars | Easy Nulled Script. [...] CBS Los Angeles [...] ...
CBS Los Angeles
Pat Moore's Full Part From Forum's Vacation | Videos | TransWorld ...
By hondo
Pat Moore's Full Part from the new movie “Vacation” by Forum, Special Blend and Foursquare. This is no B Footy or ... If you've been paying attention you would have noticed that we gave you every part from the “Vacation.” Hope you enjoyed ...
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Digital archive of women's travel diaries | TeleRead: News and ...
By Paul Biba
The folks at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University have a new digital collection on view. Women's Travels Diaries features over 100 diaries written by British and American women who documented their ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

Transparency in Congressional Travel | Legal Talk Network
Members of Congress and their staffers who travel at the expense of private organizations must follow a long list of legal restrictions and requirements. However, there is a little known exemption that allows the same federal employees to travel ...
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Travel Video: The Northern Lights of Norway, Finland and Sweden ...
By Amanda Arnold
Does it seem like the sun keeps busting out solar flares? Well, that's because it does keep busting out solar flares. It did it a couple of days ago, and you'll recall the flare headed for Earth in early March. According to Wired, the reason for all ...
The Blogs at HowStuffWorks

Americans Shouldn't Be Afraid To Travel | Gadling.com
By Sean McLachlan
People believe a lot of stupid things, and one of the stupidest is that Americans are somehow at much higher risk than other nationalities when traveling. Many Americans I know won't travel to foreign countries, and I've even seen Americans ...
Gadling

United To Beef Up Travel Perks, Offerings
Air travel demand for the prime summer season is strong, which supports higher fares, but United Airlines aims to bolster other sources of revenue by selling new products and services, the chief executive of the airline's parent United ...

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