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Anyone can make their way through airport security or customs and learn how to say "hello" in a foreign language. Expert travelers pick up a specific skill set to make traveling easier every time. Here are the 10 essential skills to help you with domestic and foreign travel—and you can practice them all at home beforehand.
Drive a stick shift
Most new cars in the U.S. have automatic transmissions, ...
Top Travel Trends
Travel is back in a big way, and 2016 is already off to a strong start - and travel agents are playing a huge role in that growth. Travelers are being incentivized to book earlier, and Cruise Planners, an American Travel Representative, is already seeing increased bookings for 2016 and into the next few years.
Here are the top travel trends to look out for in 2016:
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With domestic flights for under $20 on Spirit and Frontier Airlines and $99 transatlantic flights on Wow Air, more travelers are considering budget airlines. Is saving potentially hundreds of dollars worth no food, entertainment or baggage allowance on these discounted flights?
There’s a lot to consider before booking your ticket, but the bottom line is that if you aren’t one who regularly flies business ...
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Travel Prep – What Will Make Your Journey Easier
Travel Preparations
Patricia Honeycutt Cantor, Special Projects Editor, TravelSquire.com | February 9, 2016
Packing prep for most travelers, especially those heading to international destinations, usually means a lot of angst over what and how to pack all those clothing and accessories items you think you will need. But when you look at the big picture, there are even more important things that will make ...
Halekulani Hotel
The iconic hotel Halekulani (house befitting heaven) sits on a natural curve of Waikiki beach and offers an incomparable view of Diamond Head from the rooms and restaurants. A four diamond award-winning property; discerning travelers from all over the world come here to relax, soak up the sun, listen to Hawaiian music and enjoy the hula dancer at sunset, and of course to dine.
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A well-traveled friend of mine once remarked, “Truly great cities don’t have to constantly tell you how great they are.” That observation comes to mind when I think about Los Angeles, the city I’ve called home for the last 29 years. L.A. is fine if you show up thinking we’re all about shallowness and smog and silicone because then we get to blow you away with our ever-evolving array of sights, smells, ...
John V. Golicz, Executive Editor | January 29, 2016
Traveling Safer
When you read the news headlines today, it can be easy to get worried and stop traveling. We live in a world where boundaries are blurred, travel is easy and (perhaps too) open and anything can happen anywhere at any time—a US Street, a Paris theater, a European Train, a hotel in Mumbai, a beach in Egypt or a marathon in Boston.
For ...
JC Lightcap, Travel-Safer.com | January 26, 2016
Tips for planning an Ancestry Trip
“Vive ton grand-père”
This was how the café owner in Normandy, France ended the conversation after I recounted how my father and I were on an ancestry trip to trace my grandfather’s path through WWII and track down our ancestral roots in Germany.
Grandpa jumped into Normandy during the WWII allied invasion as part of ...
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Culture and First Time Travel
First Time Travel - Tips and Advice
Bree Allen, Travel Writer | January 21, 2016
Traveling to experience unfamiliar cultures allows for a huge amount of personal growth and a deeper understanding of the true SELF. Foreign cultures widen our perspective, allowing us to gain a new level of understanding and desire to pursue the unknown.
However, the journey through this transformative process isn’t always ...
Ed Salvato, Man About World Magazine | January 20, 2016
My partner and I spent a week this summer in Bermuda. Our gift to ourselves and our bonding experience was a two-and-a-half-hour adventure: a tour cruising among 10 of Bermuda’s islands on jet skis. That’s the butch-looking bad boy pictured below.
The Just Add Water brochure features calm, smiling tourists — men, women and older kids — ...
