May 11, 2011
"The State Department release dealt a heavy blow to Mexican tourism."

The U.S. State Department’s Warning About Travel to 11 Mexican States Unfairly Questions the Safety of Visiting Key Resort Areas

February 7, 2011
"Since such a commercial cost well in excess of a million dollars — maybe even multiples of a million dollars — you have a graphic example of how prosperous some of the vacation-home sellers have become"

A Florida Coffee Shop Has Made Itself into an Institution by Showing Customer’s Vacation Photographs

January 4, 2011
"The savings would amount to hundreds of millions of dollars."

As the Impasse Between American Airlines and Big Online Travel Agencies Enters Week Two, Both Sides Stand Firm

July 6, 2010
"Almost immediately, claims were made by outsiders that the aggregators were listing only those airlines with which they did business — in other words, airlines or search engines that would pay a commission to the aggregators."

Google’s Entrance Into the Airfare Search Market is Badly Needed to Restore Confidence to a Wildly Erratic Industry

February 12, 2010
"I learned the important lesson that occasionally, as in a time of bad weather, numerous T.S.A. staff fail to show up for work, leaving too few inspectors to handle the security processing of a few hundred passengers."

Rush to the Security Gates and Get In Line the Moment You Obtain Your Boarding Pass — Don’t Dally

February 11, 2010
"Business doesn’t seem to have picked up in Las Vegas (to put it mildly). I use, as my indicator of that, the calendars of room prices posted by the MGM Mirage (www.mgmmirage.com) organization for its ultra-deluxe, 4,000-room Aria Hotel in Vegas’ new City Center development."

Travel Trivia: Some Scattered Developments, And A Few Wayward Thoughts

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January 20, 2010
"Drawn by its unique music presented by famous local performers at weekend nightspots in Dakar, a great many young American tourists pay high airfares to visit the French-speaking African nation of Senegal."

Learn African Dancing and Drumming at a Camp on a Beach of Senegal

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December 2, 2009
"Last week, the 35-year-old Untours — which has hitherto made fully-furnished apartments available to its passengers in 25 European locations — surprised its followers by naming Buenos Aires, Argentina, as a new destination."

Its European Trips Now Too Costly, Untours is Offering Two-Week Buenos Aires Stays for Only $999