Travel Insurance: What Boomers Need to Know
Baby Boomers continue to drive trends in travel, perhaps the biggest is in the travel insurance category, which sees $3.5 billion purchases in the U.S. annually and is expected to grow more in 2018.
Best Time to Travel? Savings Tips for Trips
Deals on air tickets are easier to find than you think, especially for trips planned for the coming winter season, according to data extracted from 60 million users of Skyscanner. In fact, January is the best time to book cheap flights in the first half of the year – both domestic and international – before […]
Holiday Travel Season: Best Booking Tips
The hectic holiday travel season is practically within spitting distance. For travelers looking to avoid the long lines and packed planes, here is one top tip: don’t travel the week before Thanksgiving. Concur, a travel and expense management firm that represents some 57 percent of the world’s business travel, analyzed historical data to find…
Traveling During the Time of Trump
U.S. travelers rarely head out to a foreign destination, legitimate visa in hand, concerned about what might happen to them at the airport when they land. But that is exactly what happened to this writer last week. I thought I was heading off to Istanbul on a long-ago scheduled press trip to meet executives at […]
Best, Worst North American Airports? The Hit List
The thought of boarding a plane sends most would-be passengers into dizzying dilemmas of anticipated discomfort as they gage personal tolerance tiers for pain and claustrophobia. Airports, however, are something else entirely. In fact U.S. airports these days are getting high marks from those who use them. Orlando, John Wayne Orange County, and Sacramento are getting […]
Top Travel Choices for 2017 from Virtuoso
For those still wondering where to go and what to do to make 2017 a very special year, Virtuoso, the luxury travel network, has some suggestions. It just took the votes from its 1600-agent strong membership base and the tallies are in. Here are the winners – with commentary by knowing Virtuoso agents. Of particular […]
Best Travel Questions to Take to Europe
What are the most needed phrases to take on the road and across the globe? The Tower of Babel can be conquered in 10 easy questions, according to Booking.com
Fear of Flying: Dr. Oz Cures All on Recent TK Flight
Dr. Mehmet Oz made a surprise appearance aboard a Turkish Airlines flight bound for New York from Istanbul recently to tape a segment about a topic many of us know all too well: the vexing discomforts of long-haul flying. The famed cardiothoracic surgeon and Columbia University professor whose syndicated talk show, The Dr. Oz […]
ASTA Probes Travelers’ Intentions and Concerns
The American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) recently looked at perceptions of American travelers to study some of their reactions to prominent issues, such as airline regulation and travel bans, to better support travel agents as they advise their clients. The study comes at a time of turmoil for American travelers, a time of highly-publicized […]
Summer 2017: Tips for the Great American Eclipse
On Aug. 21, millions of people in the U.S. will see day turn to night as a total solar eclipse passes over North America. The last time this happened from coast to coast was 1918. Temperatures will drop rapidly as the moon completely covers the sun. Observers will be able to see the spectacular […]
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