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End of the Aughties Roundup
This is the last post of the decade (2000-2009 aka The Aughties) on this blog, and in order to help you define and remember the Aughties, here’s a collection of ’best of the Aughties’ articles. Mercury News - Goodbye to the Aught...
Sunday Travel Times - TSA, Pope, Shaolin Monks & Pamela Anderson…
In the wake of the Christmas terror incident abroad Northwest Flight 253, the TSA has issued a host of new regulations for U.S. bound passengers aboard international flights. The new regs include a thorough pat-down at boarding gates, inspection of ...
Hostelbookers Survey on Travelers Playing Hooky
Hostelbookers.com conducted a survey of 10,000 budget travelers in November, and let it be stated for the record that Brazilians topped the list of travelers who cheat while away from home. 15.4% of Brazilians said they cheated, much higher than ...
Sunday Travel Times - Palin Quits Again, Fabulous Vegas Vandal-ized..
Sarah Palin on why she quit her Hawaii vacation - “In an attempt to ‘go incognito,’ I Sharpied the logo out on my sun visor so photographers would be less likely to recognize me and bother my kids or other vacationers… I have...
Washington Airportiquette
There are different airport and in-flight etiquette standards for the almighty in DC than for the ordinary Joe. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) provides a shining example of Washington Rules by calling a US Airways flight attendant a “bitch̶...
Sunday Travel Times - Tiger heads for the Woods, Jersey Shore…
Finally, there’s something to write about Tiger Woods that actually has to do with travel. After getting clubbed by his own wife, followed by a period of media denial where a string of mistresses popped up, and finally a mea culpa where his ...
Sunday Travel Times - Vdara Blooms, Rollingstone LA…
When you open a new hotel/casino resort complex in Sincity, everyone expects it to be bigger and more costlier than anything before. And so it was with City Center - the 67 acre, $8.6 billion project which employs 12,000 people and has earned 6 L...
List of 2010 Destination Lists
December comes, and brings with it that abominable annual rite - the top 10 lists. Luckily, we have an authoritative source who has put in a great deal of effort to produce this list. Actually, make that sources - there’s more than one, a...
Sunday Travel Times - Dope-a-Mind, Niagara False…
New study - take dopamine, think about a vacation destination, and afterwards - as in the next day, if you’re asked about your favorite vacation spot, you’ll cite the one you thought about when you were dope-a-mind. A tale of 2 Niagaras 2...
Sunday Travel Times - Tourism Follies, Holocaust Photoshoot…
The Sutherland Institute, a thinktank in Utah, is urging lawmakers to abolish the Utah Office of Tourism, because, it says - people come to see the attractions in Utah, regardless of whether or not Utah Tourism spends money promoting them. The DHS...
GWB Presidential Library Plans ‘Squishy’
The design for the George W. Bush Presidential Center and Library was unveiled by Laura Bush, architect Robert A. M. Stern and landscape architect Matthew Urbanski on November 18. President George W. Bush applauded the work of Robert Stern and Micha...
Sunday Travel Times - Recession Ends Budget Travel, Autograph…
This just in - The recession is over, and so is budget travel. And we’re not talking about cheap hotels or discount flight tickets. We’re talking Budget Travel magazine, which is apparently about to fold officially on Monday morning. NY ...
Sunday Travel Times - Drowning the Smokies in an Ugly Bathtub, Brand USA…
There’s trouble brewing behind the smokie tourist brochures, as per National Geographic, which lumped the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in their list of ‘Places with Troubles.’ This was in their sixth annual rating of 133 wo...
Sunday Travel Times - An Obamaland Vibe, HIV Travel…
Whether President Obama will bring change to the whole nation remains to be seen, but Washington DC is already in the ‘last throes’ of a major makeover - thanks to the new and hip occupants of the White House, whose vibe and enthusiasm ha...
Switzerland & Suicide Tourism - Dignitas or End of the World?
The debate over pulling the plug on Grandma or another Terri Schiavo is no longer a matter of healthcare or the sanctity of life. It has now officially become a tourism issue. The Swiss have lax laws governing assisted suicide aka euthanasia - basic...
Sunday Travel Times - Theron, Charlize - Angel for Charity, Mike Albo’s Junket…
On Thurday night in San Francisco, Charlize Theron kissed a woman, earning $140,000 for a charity event. The winning bidder got a South Africa travel package with 2010 World Cup tickets, a safari and a meeting with Nelson Mandela. The bidding for the...
Sunday Travel Times - Google Trike, Berlin Wall…
Omnipresent Google is now one step closer to your bedroom window, with the introduction of the Google Trike (www.google.com/trike). This contraption - a rickety old camera-equipped tricycle - will soon be seen at local malls and hiking trails - ph...
Eco-friendly Sex & Mauritius Buy-a-Room
The folks at GreenPeace apparently had some time left over from saving the planet, so they decided to put together a guide to eco-friendly sex. So from now on, when you’re enjoying romps in romantic hotels, don’t forget to turn off the l...
Sunday Travel Times - Tourism 2023, The Noble One…
Tourism 2023, a sustainable tourism initiative by UK-based major travel companies and environmental organizations, was launched at the ABTA Travel Convention in Barcelona on Oct 8, 2009. The signatories have pledged to collaborate to create a comme...
Hilton Could Face Criminal Charges in Denizen Probe
A federal grand jury is looking into whether Hilton Worldwide (formerly Hilton Hotels Corp.) and some of its executives should be facing criminal charges in the Denizen case. The background here is that two of Starwood’s senior execs - Ross Kl...
Check-in to the Immigration Hotels
In what can only be termed as a stroke of inspiration - or a sun-stroke, the Obama Administration has declared its intention of turning hotels into immigration detention centers. Maybe an explanation is in order here - Homeland Security boss Janet Na...
Sunday Travel Times - Hispanic Hotel Workers, Chicago, Bing…
For years, hotel owners and other hospitality companies have enjoyed the fruits of cheap Hispanic labor. But their overwhelming majority amongst hotel workers, coupled with increasing solidarity backed up by union muscle and political support, is ...
WTF? Wisconsin Tourism Federation Changes Name
Every time you think Wisconsin Tourism is scraping the barrel-bottom, they manage to find a new hole and start digging. The latest of their cockamamie screwups involves changing their name from “Wisconsin Tourism Federation” to the “...
Sunday Travel Times - No-Quid Quaid, Pooch Hotel…
Drama in real life for actor Randy Quaid and wife Evi Quaid, after they turned into outlaws hunted down by the long arm of the law for allegedly skipping out on a $10k+ unpaid bill at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, CA. The Quaids were co...
Will Goby stop the Madness?
Goby (GO-be; www.goby.com/) is a new search engine whose goal, in their own words, is to “stop the madness and eliminate the need to hop around to multiple Web sites and sort through information that’s often incomplete and/or irrelevant or h...
US Denies Cuba Travel License to Congressman Fighting to Overturn Travel Ban
The irony is rich, and the Treasury - which is in charge of approving visits to Cuba - is about to get piled on. Big time. Congressman Sam Farr (D-CA), also the co-chair of the Congressional Travel and Tourism Caucus, is ginning up media support an...
Sunday Travel Times - Lindsay Lohan, Rage-filled Chinchillas…
Wasn’t sure which story should come first - Lindsay Lohan’s ejection from the Bowery Hotel or Sin City’s rage-filled Chinchillas, but I figure it doesn’t really matter, so we’ll start with the Mean Girl. Lindsay Lo...
Sunday Travel Times - Museum Day, Tasty Travel Writer…
Saturday, Sept 26, 2009 is Museum Day, and you’re all invited to visit 800 Museums around the nation - for free. All you have to do is download an admission card from the Smithsonian website, print it out and and present it at any one of the...
Marriott - Best Hotel Industry Employer
Why is Marriott the best hotel industry employer? It’s usually difficult to make qualitative judgments about the best company to work for in an industry - given the differences in size, location, workforce demographics and types of benefits. Bu...
Zamna - Mexican Ship of Peace from Cozumel
The Mexican City of Cozumel has come up an innovative way to promote itself as a tourist destination to the world - They’ve sent out a ship named Zamna on a 5-month trip, ostensibly bearing an ‘international message of peace.’ To ...
