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Travel Insurance: When You Need it and What You Need to Ask
It may be a good time to be in the travel insurance business, but is it a good time to buy travel insurance?
The Travel Insurance Question: Do I Really Need It?
5 Things Airlines Won't Tell You About Their Food
Although some airlines have made an effort to improve the food, there are a few things they aren't telling you about the fare up there.
Travel Writing 101: What Exactly is Travel?
Anyone can be a travel writer. But what makes a travel writer different from, say, a mystery writer, or one who crafts sentences about romance, children's stories or even humor?
Travel Tech: Do Air Purifiers Work on Plane Trips?
Our health expert makes sense of the mini purifiers that promise to make your next trip sniffle free.
Travel Troubleshooter: No Room, No Refund, No Fair?
What if you prepay for a hotel but there's no room for you? Our guest gets the run around from his New York hotel and Priceline.com Did he get what he deserves?
Travel Health & Safety: 7 Food Allergy Tips
You needn't stay home or court disaster: By preparing for the worst you can sail through most situations with little or no effort on your part.
Travel Troubleshooter: Plenty of Rain, But No Raincheck for Leaky Hotel
What happens when a storm threatens to ruin a vacation, but the booking agent won't let you reschedule?
Travel Health & Safety: Plenty of Fish in the Sea?
Here are some tips on avoiding becoming sick as a result of eating fish while you are on the road -- or at home, for that matter.
Travel Health & Safety: Are You Going to Eat That?
Getting sick from something you ate is bad enough at home, but ten times worse when you're traveling.
Travel Health & Safety: Can I Drink the Water?
A tall glass of water isn't always all it's cracked up to be. What water wisdom you need to know before your next trip.
Expert Advice for Minimizing Flight Delays
After one of the worst summers for air travel in years, what can you do to make your next flight more enjoyable?
Travel Health & Safety: How Clean is Your Airplane's Air?
You have no choice but to breathe it, often for hours at a time. So what's keeping it safe most of the time, and how safe is it, really?
Travel Health & Safety: Smart Resouces for World Travelers
Intelligent travelers go by the old folk saying, 'Plan for the worst, hope for the best.' Here's planning advice that'll make your trip the best.
How to Spa: Answers to Questions You're Afraid to Ask
We've taken all your unasked questions to the experts, everything from how much to tip to what the therapist is really thinking when youÂ?re naked on the massage table.
Why You Should Buy Insurance Before Your Next Cruise
It's not difficult to imagine all of the things that could go wrong on a cruise: hurricanes, political upheaval and a sudden illness are just some of the snafus. On the other hand, how…
Travel Insurance Tips From a Broken-Thumbed Tourist
Fortunately for global travelers, the travel health insurance options are many and, not surprisingly, widely available on the Internet. Best of all, travel insurance includes many more…
All Hands Off Deck! A Hands-On Guide to Fighting a Shipboard Norovirus
On board viruses start like this: One infected passenger comes aboard, leaves his germs on a handrail and all of a sudden everyone's sick -- just like kindergarten. Though major…
Thailand Now, After the Coup
For tourists, Thailand feels almost exactly the same as it did before the coup d'état. The main difference? The tanks and soldiers stationed in and around Bangkok have become tourist…
Rebuilding a Tourism Industry After Wilma Wipes out the Yucatán
Despite the fact that the storm left about 35,000 tourists stranded in Cancún, Cozumel and the Mayan Riviera and caused major damage the outlook remains somewhat hopeful.
Bali: Is Paradise Lost?
Informational update on travel conditions relating to Bali.
Cosmetic Surgery Tourism: A Tummy Tuck in Thailand, a Breast Augmentation in Brazil
You normally wouldn't pair 'surgery' and 'vacation' in the same thought, but a growing trend marries the two. They do so for a variety of reasons -- but the overriding issue is cost.…
Travel Well, Travel Wisely with Tips for Maintaining Your Health and Keeping the Peace When Away
When you're busy doing big-picture trip planning like buying tickets, arranging for a house sitter, making hotel reservations, and packing, it's easy to let other things slide. While…
Responsible Travel: Dealing with Hazards when Visiting National Parks
Here are some tips on avoiding and dealing with some common outdoors hazards.
You're Outta There! New Short-Term Medical Evacuation Insurance
You can now buy Medjet's quality, short-term medical evacuation insurance just for the times you're traveling.