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Carla Valpeoz

Family Desperate To Find Missing Blind Woman Traveler In Peru

“My sister has a very adventurous spirit,” said Carlos about his sister who is a social activist, emerging vlogger of Carla’s Visionless Adventures, and author of “Visionless Adventures.” “She’s traveled all over the world.”

“She wanted to travel as much as she could whether with friends or independently,” he continued telling ABC News.

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Young Business Woman Hotel

How To Protect Yourself In Your Hotel Room From Shameless Voyeurs

Hotels And Guests Falling Prey To Tech Savvy Anonymous Voyeurs by Heather Cassell New high definition smaller cameras are empowering tech savvy peeping Toms to take advantage of unsuspecting travelers inside the privacy of their hotel rooms. This week, Javier Antonio Martinez, 30, a Sheraton elite club member, was arrested on suspicion of secretly videotaping […]

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Lisbon Portugal

You’ll Love These Cheap New Direct Flights To Portugal

Portugal’s Airline Launches New Cheap Nonstop Routes From Three Major US Airports In 2019 by Heather Cassell Flying to Portugal will soon be cheaper and easier with new nonstop flights from Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, DC next year. TAP Air Portugal announced the launch of three destinations including new nonstop flights to Lisbon, Portugal’s […]

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Tailormade Africa canoe safari

Hippo Attacks A Woman Canoeing In Zimbabwe

Kristen’s mother-in-law Martine Yaldor, a native of South Africa, told the Herald that her daughter-in-law was lucky that the hippo’s incisors missed her thigh. Instead they clamped her leg between its flatter grinding teeth.

“If one of those (incisor) teeth hit her femoral artery, we would probably be planning a funeral today,” Martine told the newspaper. “By all accounts, she was incredibly lucky.”

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Woman looks out hotel room window

Devastated By Revealing Shower Video, Woman Sues Hilton

“I click on it and I see my face and profile in a bathroom and I start screaming,” she said. “I just immediately started screaming. It was devastating on kind of a cellular level because I didn’t know. … I had no clue, I had no context for this.”

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Carla Stefaniak (Courtesy of Facebook)

Family Confirms Woman Murdered In Costa Rica

Family Identified Body Of Dead Woman Found By Costa Rican Authorities As Missing Florida Woman by Heather Cassell Family and friends confirmed early Wednesday morning that a woman traveling solo on the final leg of her Costa Rican birthday trip was murdered. Carla Stefaniak, 36, vanished from her Airbnb in San Antonio de Escazu, an […]

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Red-Eyed Tree Frog Costa Rica

Costa Rica’s Nationwide Strike Rocks Country’s Tourism

“The country is in a critical moment, in which all citizens must commit to the benefit of the country, which means that we all have to give in to certain degree. We believe these types of demands and pressures of the labor unions are not the route towards solutions, but instead, going against the society and the national economy,” said Sary.
She continued noting the country’s travel industry was suffering huge financial losses due to the strike and its image is being tarnished.

“We believe they are not even considering how badly this affects the image of the country,” Sary continued.

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Guests of the Women’s Travel Group take a group photo beneath the “Tropic of Capricorn” sign in Namibia, Africa.

The Women’s Travel Group Wins Prestigious Travel Award

The award-winning women’s travel company was recognized for its “outreach to solo women who wish to find a travel group to join,” according to Wednesday’s news release.

It’s the second time the women’s tour company has won the same award. The company was recognized for its tours for solo women travelers in 2015.

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Tahiti

Workaholics United Airlines Wants To Send You On Vacation

United Airlines wants to give you or someone you nominate and a lucky plus one an excuse to run your toes through the sand and swim in tropical waters with an all-expense paid ultimate vacation to Tahiti.

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Audrey and her daughter Emily Rodrigue

Canadian Mother And Daughter Missing On California Camping Adventure

Authorities Are Searching For A Mother And Her Daughter Who Were Reported Missing After Days Of Being Off The Radar by Heather Cassell A Canadian mother and daughter on a camping trip to Northern California are missing. Audrey Rodrigue, 29, and her daughter Emily Rodrigue, 10, were reported missing by Audrey’s boyfriend August 27, according […]

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Young women having fun dancing at nightclub

California Will Soon Be Able To Party All Night Long

“Nightlife is crucial to our culture and our economy,” Wiener said in a statement from his office. “California’s one-size-fits-all closing time doesn’t make sense. When it comes to nightlife, you can’t compare downtown Los Angeles or San Francisco to a small town.”

“Local communities should be able to size up their own nightlife needs and decide their own closing time. This bill allows for local control over nightlife – granting flexibility to nine cities to allow bars to stay open later in certain neighborhoods or for special events if that’s what the community decides is best,” he continued.

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Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines Announces New Technology Manager

Southwest Airlines announced Tammy Amirault as its new managing director of technology, enterprise management analytics earlier this month.

Tammy succeeded Sherry Staber, vice president of technology in enterprise management and technical operations. Sherry is retiring.

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