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Tourists Welcome! Uncrowded Travel Destinations in Spain

“Tourists go home.” Those words, daubed on walls and reproduced in countless news stories this year, make uncomfortable reading for anyone thinking of visiting Spain. The sentiment poses a dilemma as well for those of us who write travel guides to this wonderful country. While we’ve always encouraged visitors to venture beyond the hot spots,…

January 7, 2025100Views

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Dengue Fever Surges in the USA! Learn How to Prevent Mosquito Bites When You Travel

Just days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning about the increased risk of dengue virus infections in the United States, Florida health officials released an alert this week about two confirmed cases of locally acquired dengue fever in the Florida Keys. The warning means the people affected by the virus didn't…

January 7, 202563Views

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How to Get a Copy of Your Birth Certificate for Travel

If you love to travel, sooner or later, you will need to show a government official your birth certificate to prove who you are. Birth certificates can unlock the ability to travel freely. They're accepted as a fundamental proof of citizenship for a variety of crucial documents that can validate you for worldwide travel, including…

January 4, 202570Views

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Dangerous Travel Destinations in 2025—and Where Risks Are Lower

As you plan international travel in 2025, it's wise to take into account the unusually high degree of volatility around the world right now. In addition to ongoing crime, armed conflict, and political oppression in places such as the Middle East, Ukraine, North Korea, and elsewhere, recent months have seen toppled governments, civil unrest, and…

January 3, 2025134Views

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Multi-Trip Travel Insurance: One Policy That Covers Every Trip for a Year

For years you've heard it drilled into your brain: Always buy travel insurance for major trips. But even minor trips may involve big problems. Airlines and airports are halting operations without warning, political skirmishes are changing the landscape of no-go destinations, and, oh yeah, you could still get sick with Covid when you're scheduled to…

January 3, 2025140Views

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Travel is finally back — a new era of growth is beginning

The global travel industry is set to fully recover from the Covid-19 pandemic this month, according to U.N. Tourism. During the first nine months of 2024, international arrivals worldwide reached 98% of pre-pandemic levels, compared to the same period in 2019, it said. The remaining 2% gap will close this month, according to the organization,…

December 31, 202474Views

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15+ Real Travel Details in 1980’s “Airplane!” That Seem Fake if You Weren’t Alive Then

Younger travelers surely know that airplane cabins, like many areas of public life in the late 1970s, were once divided into sections for smokers and non-smokers. (Usually, the smokers had to sit at the back of the plane.) So this gag about a "smoking" ticket was almost a gimme for the writers. Unpleasant fact about…

December 31, 202467Views

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What a government shutdown could mean for air travel

A lone traveler makes his way past a nearly deserted TSA security screening area at Orlando International Airport ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Milton, on October 9, 2024 in Orlando, Florida. Paul Hennessy | Anadolu | Getty Images A government shutdown is looming just as the peak holiday travel season gets underway. Lawmakers have…

December 30, 202466Views

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This Airline Is Cutting Your Legroom by 2 Inches, but the Travel Press Cheered

Sometimes the journalism landscape exists in a mental universe that the rest of us don't live in. We all know what life is like in the United States and across the world right now. Inflation continues to drain people's resources. Wage levels fail to keep up with rising costs. People are falling behind and…

December 30, 202479Views

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‘Noctourism’ is expected to be a big travel trend in 2025

Rebecca Douglas has been to Iceland 29 times. And she's already booked her 30th trip. The goal of every trip is the same: photographing the aurora borealis, or Northern Lights. Douglas has been photographing this spectacular phenomenon since 2010. It's colors — which can paint the sky a dazzling array of green, purple, yellow and…

December 29, 202490Views