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7 Tips To Make Your Holiday Travels Joyeous and Merry

These Tips Will Help Avoid Turbulence Releasing Some Of That Holiday Stress by Heather Cassell An estimated 40% of Americans plan to travel for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, according to a NerdWallet survey conducted by The Harris Poll. Thursday was the busiest travel day of the holiday season, according to the United States Federal Aviation […]

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Busy Holiday Travel At Airports, But Still Short Of Pre-Pandemic Numbers

Taking To The Skies This Holiday Week, You Are Not The Only One by Heather Cassell Holiday travel is getting started with a bang. Thursday was the busiest travel day of the holiday season, according to the United States Federal Aviation Administration.  An estimated 40% of Americans plan to travel for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, […]

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4 Incredible Ways To Live Your Wildest Travel Dreams

Airbnb, Marriott, and the European Commission Have Created Four Opportunities to Revitalize and Promote Destinations by Heather Cassell Got skills? Are you young and entrepreneurial? Are you able to relocate for a year or more? Are you ready to venture out into the world? Marriott, Airbnb, and Italy have once in a lifetime opportunities waiting […]

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Popular Winter Destinations Hit CDC’s Covid-19 Hot Spots List

Covid-19 Curbs Holiday and Winter Travel Plans Just as Travelers Plan to Book Their Escapes by Heather Cassell The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention followed up its revised travel alert for Covid-19 destination hot spots with an interactive map Tuesday. On Monday, the CDC listed some Caribbean, Central Asian, and Eastern European countries as […]

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Aloha! Hawaii To Welcome American Travelers Again

Travelers To Hawaii Will Have To Test For COVID-19, Prior To Departing For Their Island Vacation by Heather Cassell American travelers will soon be able to sip a Mai Tai by the beach or scuba dive, whale watch, and enjoy Hawaii’s great outdoors and fresh sea food as long as they are coronavirus-free. Starting August […]

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Hawaiian Vacations Will Have To Continue To Be Put On Hold

Hawaii Extended Its Mandated Quarantine For Out Of State Travelers Until The End Of July And Is Implementing Controversial Technology To Find Sick Travelers by Heather Cassell Travelers going on a Hawaiian vacation before the end of July just got their trip extended by 14-days or delayed until August. Hawaii Governor David Ige announced June […]

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Mass Shooting At Gilroy Garlic Festival

Shooter Kills Three People, 15 People Injured. Police Killed Shooter. Alleged Second Suspect At Large. by Heather Cassell Festivalgoers at the Gilroy Garlic Festival are stunned, shocked, and terrified after a shooter opened fire on a crowd as a band performed its encore song. Four people — 6-year-old male victim, an unidentified 13-year-old female victim, […]

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Travel Improves, But Summer Vacationers Are Distracted

Travelers Give Travel Industry Big Points For Customer Satisfaction, But American’s Say They Can’t Afford Summer Vacation by Heather Cassell Summer vacation kicks off in less than a month from today. It will be primetime for customer complaints to cheery reviews from happy travelers. Keeping customers happy will be key this summer to enticing travelers […]

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Costa Rica Pledges To Protect Tourists As Tourism Threatened

The assaults on women and murders only added to travelers’ concerns as the Star asked, “Is Costa Rica Becoming Too Dangerous for Female Tourists?”. The string of murders of mostly women follow accidents involving an American tour guide and a tourist around the beginning of the year.

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Amazing Women’s Adventures Worth Digging Into This Winter

New Feminist Women’s Travel Magazine, Unearth Women, Takes Flight And Inspires Women To See The World Through Women’s Eyes by Heather Cassell A new feminist travel magazine hit newsstands this past fall, Unearth Women, and it’s not like anything you’ve seen before. The magazine is created and headed by New York-based travel editor and blogger […]

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New Year, AmaWaterways Is Ready For Expansion In 2019

“I am very excited to join the growing AmaWaterways family,” Janet, a more than 15-year customer-centric marketing veteran, said in the release. “Rudi Schreiner, Kristin Karst and Gary Murphy have built an award-winning company with a reputation for innovation and impeccable customer service – two things that I am very passionate about.”

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Prepare to Pay more To Visit Venice For A Day In 2019

“Entering Venice will be like entering into a museum, I don’t think the measure will help the problem of transforming Venice into a Disneyland, with fake glass shops and piazza sellers replacing the old ‘bottega’ or artisan shops,” he told CNN.

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