Getting purchases home after visiting a far-away winery can be a problem. Carry-on restrictions prohibit you from bringing bottles of wine onboard the flight with you. National Geographic Traveler magazine explains the options in its latest issue.
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Travel: To insure or not to insure your next vacation?
Don’t buy travel insurance, says Consumer Reports. Do buy travel insurance, say consumer advocates Clark Howard and Ed Perkins. Don’t buy travel insurance, says the Consumer Federation of America. Do buy it, says your travel agent.
In a database of news articles over the last year about travel insurance, many advised people to buy it, while many others said skip it. With such conflicting information, what should you do?
Saigontourist leads top ten travel agents
The Ho Chi Minh City-based tourism company Saigontourist topped the list of 10 travel agents in the country thanks to its outstanding performance in 2006.
The award was granted to the company by the Viet Nam Tourism Administration and the Tourism Association in Ha Noi on July 9.
National Geographic launches Talk Abroad Travel Phone
The National Geographic Society has launched the National Geographic Talk Abroad Travel Phone for consumers, designed to meet the needs of travellers by allowing affordable calls from more than 100 countries. National Geographic co-operated with Cellular Abroad, provider of cellular services for international travellers, in a licensing partnership to provide this service.
As Domestic Sales Slow, Travel Sites Go Global
For online travel agencies, the grass looks much greener on the other side of the ocean.
As bookings in the United States have stalled for most online travel agencies, companies like Expedia, Travelocity, Priceline and others have found that their investments in foreign markets are paying off — especially in Europe, where their bookings jumped about 30 percent last year. Although doing business in foreign markets can be complicated, executives and analysts said these efforts can also be lucrative.
The downgrading of business travel
For many professionals, business travel used to come with certain perks — a posh hotel, a lavish meal, minibar raids and maybe a pay-per-view movie before bed. But, with hotel rates skyrocketing and companies clamping down on spending, business travel is becoming increasingly bare-bones, even a tinge humiliating. These days, it can sometimes resemble college-dorm living, involving roommates, cooking your own meals and crashing on a friend’s couch.
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U.S. maps out strategy to resurrect tourism
The United States has lost billions of dollars and an immeasurable amount of goodwill since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorism attacks because of a decline in the number of foreign tourists.Several senators are now trying to get the government involved in bringing those visitors back.
Ireland’s hardest touring group on way to Westport
THERE’S a huge treat in store for the people of Westport this week, as the town welcomes Ireland’s Hardest Touring Trad Group, Gráda, for a one-night concert in Matt Molloy’s. Tomorrow night (Wednesday), Gráda will hit the stage in the Westport venue for a night of craic agus ceol.
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Young And Restless And Touring
Triple J Unearthed winners Young And Restless have a busy couple of months ahead of them, as they prepare to release their debut full-length and travel the country.
The five-piece, originally from Canberra and now relocated to Melbourne, are gaining a reputation for being one of the most energetic and chaotic acts in the country. Their self-titled debut, to be released July 14, is testament to this, a persistent barrage of manic Refused-esque guitars, and ferocious shrieks courtesy of frontwoman Karina Utomo.
The Police adjust to touring in the 21st century
Oh, the things that technology has wrought in the decades since the Police last toured. Advances in concert audio are doing wonders for Andy Summers’ guitar tone. “I don’t think I’ve ever had a guitar sound this good,” he says. He also marvels at the “completely state-of-the-art show” that he and his two bandmates put on night after night.