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nytimes.com October 17, 2019
How Guilty Should You Feel About Flying?

The Swedes call it “flygskam,” or “flying shame,” the movement that encourages people to stop taking flights to lower their carbon footprints. But should most Americans really be ashamed of getting on a plane to see grandma this holiday season?
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bloomberg.com October 16, 2019
How to Never Be Stranded After a Canceled Flight

At Bloomberg Pursuits, we love to travel. And we always want to make sure we’re doing it right. So we’re talking to globe-trotters in all of our luxury fields—food, wine, fashion, cars, real estate—to learn about their high-end hacks, tips, and off-the-wall experiences.
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harpers.org October 14, 2019
The Death of a Once Great City

New York has been my home for more than forty years, from the year after the city’s supposed nadir in 1975, when it nearly went bankrupt.
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nytimes.com October 15, 2019
5 Tips for Keeping It Together as a Digital Nomad

Sure, being able to work remotely and travel nonstop is a blast. But it’s not without downtime and difficult moments. For most of the last five years I’ve lived as a digital nomad, working while traveling for months at a time across dozens of countries and five continents.
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marketwatch.com October 17, 2019
This waterfront city is the No. 1 place in America to retire

Fort Myers and the Caloosahatchee River in Florida.If warm weather, easy access to the beach and an affordable price tag sound like your dream retirement, this town might be for you. U.S.
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lifehacker.com October 15, 2019
Find Out How Much Cabs, Food, and Beer Will Cost For Your Next Trip Using This Site

A few years ago my boyfriend and I purchased WOW Airlines tickets to Scotland. They were super cheap and came with a 17-hour layover in Iceland.
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marketwatch.com October 12, 2019
‘It is an act of insanity to stay in the U.S.’: Why this 63-year-old teacher ditched Massachusetts to retire in the highlands of Panama

Mary Taft lives with her two daughters, seven cats and two dogs in a mansion in Panama — and she wouldn’t have it any other way. But the former teacher and school administrator didn’t always know that a Panamanian retirement was in store for her.
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bbc.com October 16, 2019
What happens when a city bans cars from its streets?

Picture children playing games of football on major urban thoroughfares. Tourists stood in the middle of the street nonchalantly taking photos. Restaurants spilling out onto small squares – and not a car, moped or bus in sight.
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veed.io October 17, 2019
How we tried to hustle our way into YC after we got rejected.

We got rejected from YC S19! Bummer, right? Our product VEED - an online video editor had been doing really well recently. Over the space of a year, we had a 60% MoM Growth Rate, 35K MAU and a great team!
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washingtonpost.com October 16, 2019
United has a new tool to help you make tight connections. They say it’s saved 50,000 missed flights.

United Airlines has one of the great heartbreaks of travel — the just-missed connecting flight — in its sights. In June, the airline announced a tool called ConnectionSaver meant to help more people make their connections without arriving to their destinations late.
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nymag.com May 9, 2019
Here’s Why Airplane Boarding Got So Ridiculous

Passengers stand in line waiting to board a flight at John F. Kennedy Airport. On a recent Delta flight, I discovered I had been demoted.
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wisebread.com February 26, 2014
25 Secrets From the World's Most Frugal Frequent Travelers

Everybody has their own travel style, along with preferred systems and tricks to make it easier, quicker, safer, and more enjoyable. But don't just ask me: I've asked the hardcore travel community to share their own travel secrets.
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bloomberg.com August 12, 2019
Tourism Is Eating the World

In 1953, mountaineers Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first confirmed summiting of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. Recently, Everest has grown so popular that photos are surfacing showing huge lines of climbers waiting to surmount that same peak.
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outsideonline.com March 19, 2019
How to Find the Cheapest Flight Possible, Every Time

Trying to find a killer deal on a flight can feel like an endless search with too many options.
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dumblittleman.com February 20, 2019
6 Ways Traveling Alone Makes You Stronger

If you’ve never tried traveling along, now is probably the right time to go on a solo trip. Traveling alone is a whole different experience. There are certain benefits you can only get from waking up alone in a totally unfamiliar place and charting your own course deeper into the unknown.
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bbc.com April 9, 2019
Why airlines make flights longer on purpose

How late is late? The ultimate goal is ‘A0’, or arrival at the gate exactly on time. If a flight is early or late, it can disrupt several other things – like gate availability and airport capacity.
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nytimes.com July 10, 2017
Meet Your New Data-Driven Travel Agent

Unlike big, impersonal online agencies, the best travel agents know a great deal about their clients and their travel choices. Now several new travel companies are creating data-driven, automated agents that rely on users’ personal preferences to make the travel-planning process easier.
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bbc.com July 22, 2019
How to be a better tourist

“If you don't have a lot of money, you tend to plan your trips better,” she says. “You will make that appointment to see the Eiffel Tower [instead of showing up and queueing]. You will search the internet for the best value in lodging. You will read up on your destination.
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theatlantic.com May 29, 2019
There Are Two Types of Airport People

It’s not hard to spot people about to miss a flight. They’re weaving between on-time travelers at a speed somewhere between a power walk and a sprint, or they’re elbow-dancing their way to the front of the TSA line to plead their case for immediate screening.
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economist.com August 17, 2015
The sad, sick life of the business traveller

MANY of us have found ourselves trying to explain to friends and colleagues that, no, business travel isn’t as fun and glamorous as it seems. Finally, there could be proof to back this up.
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nytimes.com June 12, 2019
How to Have a High-End Vacation for Less

You want luxury, but you don’t want to overspend for it. Here’s how to save in five popular and pricey cities without feeling deprived. (No hostels involved.)
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thrillist.com May 31, 2019
18 Beautiful European Cities You Can Actually Afford to Visit Right Now

We're as guilty of it as anyone: trotting out every ridiculously cheap flight from New York or Boston or Atlanta to some cool-ass European capital or coast and saying, eyes wide and spittle spraying, "Now's the time! Get to Europe!" There's only one catch, and it's a big one.
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theatlantic.com June 4, 2019
Too Many People Want to Travel

Late in May, the Louvre closed. The museum’s workers walked out, arguing that overcrowding at the home of the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo had made the place dangerous and unmanageable.
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time.com December 9, 2014
Use a 'Fake' Location to Get Cheaper Plane Tickets

I can’t explain airline pricing but I do know some plane tickets can be cheaper depending on where you buy them or, even better, where you appear to buy them from. This is all about leveraging foreign currencies and points-of-sale to your advantage.
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rollingstone.com July 20, 2015
Up in the Air: Meet the Man Who Flies Around the World for Free

The boarding procedure has barely started at Chicago O’Hare, and Ben Schlappig has already taken over the first-class cabin.
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money.com March 12, 2018
All the Things You're Doing Wrong When You Travel, According to Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain thinks traveling to Paris just to stand atop the Eiffel Tower is lethal to your soul. And a selfie in front of the pyramids in Giza? Completely overrated. Bourdain is on a mission to change how we see and experience the world. Skip the tourist traps. Avoid the lines.
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redditblog.com January 11, 2016
“Never Drink Airplane Coffee” and Other Secrets From Airline Employees

Boarding a plane any time soon? Here are some secrets from airline employees shared in a fascinating and freaky AskReddit discussion. Happy flying! As redditor derityug noted, “It’s a great way to be the fastest person to stand up and wait 20 minutes once the seatbelt light turns off.
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businessinsider.com June 16, 2015
29 travel hacks that even frequent fliers don't know

Instead of insulting your intelligence with "hacks" like "pack light," or "bring an empty water bottle," we've put together a list of tips and tricks that will help even the most seasoned jetsetter avoid the inevitable hassles of frequent flying.
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bbc.co.uk February 20, 2019
The beach nobody can touch

This is the story of one perfect beach. There are hundreds of pristine white-sand beaches along the coast of Thailand, but one tiny bay, almost hidden by limestone cliffs, has obsessed the world.
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nytimes.com March 21, 2019
There Is No Reason to Cross the U.S. by Train. But I Did It Anyway.

Tell your fellow americans that you plan to cross the United States by train, and their reactions will range from amusement at your spellbinding eccentricity to naked horror that they, through some fatal social miscalculation, have become acquainted with a person who would plan to cross the United S
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nytimes.com March 21, 2019
Rick Steves Wants to Save the World, One Vacation at a Time

Rick Steves can tell you how to avoid having your pocket picked on the subway in Istanbul. He can tell you where to buy cookies from cloistered Spanish nuns on a hilltop in Andalusia. He can tell you approximately what percentage of Russia’s gross domestic product comes from bribery.
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nytimes.com September 18, 2019
What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max?

On Oct. 29, 2018, Lion Air Flight 610 taxied toward the runway at the main airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, carrying 189 people bound for Bangka Island, a short flight away. The airplane was the latest version of the Boeing 737, a gleaming new 737 Max that was delivered merely three months before.
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vanityfair.com September 17, 2014
The Human Factor

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vox.com April 12, 2017
Why flying in America keeps getting more miserable, explained

After what amounts to a decades-long series of disasters, the American aviation industry is finally in a good place. Overcapacity and fare wars have been eliminated, redundant staff is gone, and with the economy improving, people are buying plane tickets again.
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newyorker.com April 22, 2019
The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona

In 1904, the city of Barcelona received a petition for development from Eusebi Güell, an industrialist and a patron of the arts. Güell had bought a tract of land on the flank of Muntanya Pelada, or Bald Mountain, which rises above the plain that extends to the city’s port.
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outsideonline.com July 11, 2017
Did Airbnb Kill the Mountain Town?

When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small commission. Outside does not accept money for editorial gear reviews. Read more about our policy. Brian Barker was living in Portland, Oregon, with a well-paying union job as a spokesperson for the fire department.
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bloomberg.com April 2, 2019
The Wrong Way to Visit Iceland

All our best life hacks and luxury news, in your inbox once a week. Sign up here. Icelanders like to joke that during the course of their adulthood they’ll have no less than seven careers—oftentimes two at once.
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travelandleisure.com August 26, 2019
The 50 Best Places to Travel in 2019

Ask the Travel + Leisure staff where we want to travel in 2019, and most of us will answer, honestly, where don’t we?
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wired.com July 5, 2019
How to Save Money and Skip Lines at the Airport

More Americans are obtaining passports and going abroad than ever before—and thousands of different travel apps, websites, and services have proliferated to help them on their journeys. Many promise to make the experience of flying cheaper, easier, and less stressful.
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huffpost.com July 3, 2014
The Top 50 Cities To See In Your Lifetime

With our ever-expanding bucket lists, it's sometimes easy to lose sight of the essentials. Well, we've gone to the community of travelers at minube.net with a simple goal: find the greatest destinations on Earth.
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nytimes.com April 16, 2019
How to Make Friends While Traveling Solo

Even in the best cases, traveling alone can get lonely. Here’s how to connect safely with the people you meet along the way. Experiencing another culture on your own terms, at your own pace, with a budget of your own choosing can be an incredibly rewarding and insightful adventure.
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nytimes.com January 3, 2019
1 Woman, 12 Months, 52 Places

The man on the train platform who spoke only Hindi looked at my ticket and chuckled. This had been one of those days when mistakes piled up faster than I could track them.
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outsideonline.com August 8, 2019
We Tried to Do Vanlife Right. It Broke Us Down.

A few hours after I bought a 1995 Ford E-350 Econoline van for $2,000 in the fall of 2017, the ABS light lit up on the dashboard. That night, I had a dream: My fiancée, Rachel, and I were driving downhill on a steep, winding road when the brakes went out.
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nytimes.com June 12, 2019
6 Places in Europe Offering Shelter From the Crowds

The luminescent sunset in Oia at the northern tip of the Greek island of Santorini, has become one of the world’s most Instagrammable events: The fire-orange sun sinking behind an azure horizon; the sky blurring into a pearly shimmer; pink clouds tinting a whitewashed village on a volcanic cliff.
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longreads.com March 13, 2019
A Three-Day Expedition To Walk Across Paris Entirely Underground

And I stared through that obscurity, I saw what seemed a cluster of great towers, Whereat I cried, “Master, what is this city?” —Dante, Canto XXXI, The Inferno
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businessinsider.com June 18, 2014
How To Get Cheaper Plane Tickets By Using A Fake Location

I can't explain airline pricing, but I do know some plane tickets can be cheaper depending on where you buy them or, even better, where you appear to buy them from. This is all about leveraging foreign currencies and points-of-sale to your advantage.
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huffpost.com October 18, 2016
7 Google Flights Tricks That Are Better Than Any Travel Agent

The site also includes a whole host of features that aren’t so easy to imagine, probably because they’re so unimaginably amazing. In some cases, this online tool can beat out any human travel agent. Don’t believe us? Check out these seven tricks below.
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nytimes.com May 14, 2019
To Reduce Travel Stress, Plan Less

It may seem counterintuitive, but one of the best ways to reduce stress while traveling is to just plan less and let spontaneity take over. You’re on a beach. White sand surrounds you. A cool breeze gently passes over from the turquoise waters just beyond your feet.
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washingtonpost.com September 14, 2019
How to get paid to travel

You want to travel, but you don’t have the money to travel. It turns out that this classic conundrum doesn’t have to keep you at home.
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theguardian.com August 17, 2018
How TripAdvisor changed travel

The world’s biggest travel site has turned the industry upside down – but now it is struggling to deal with the same kinds of problems that are vexing other tech giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter. By
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bloomberg.com January 5, 2017
Is Emirates Airline Running Out of Sky?

Female cabin crew, referred to invariably as “girls,” are to tie their hair back in tight buns, preferably secured by a scrunchie in Emirates-brand red.
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civilized.life January 1, 2019
Here Are The Literal Meanings Behind The Names Of Every Country On Earth

Are you a geography buff? Interested in world languages? If so, then this incredible infographic listing the literal translation of every country’s name might be of interest to you. Other literal names serve as pretty solid advertisements for their respective countries.
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economist.com October 27, 2018
The backlash against overtourism

EVER SINCE the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797, locals have complained that Venice, its former capital, is being overrun by visitors. Having spent decades trying to attract tourists, the city council is now rethinking its approach.
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thelocal.it October 31, 2018
Italy’s most overrated and underrated destinations

What doesn’t the average traveller know about my adopted country? A lot. Italy isn’t all quiet canals, Dolomites and cappuccini in dreamy piazzas, ancient islands in an azure sea and endless vineyards in the Tuscan countryside. It has its sore spots. It doesn’t have many.
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dereklow.co September 15, 2015
Across the USA by Train for Just $186

Turns out, you don’t need a car to see America. Traveling coast-to-coast across the United States by train is one of the world’s greatest travel experiences. Amazingly, it’s also one of the world’s greatest travel bargains — the 3,400-mile trip can cost as little as $186.
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sf.curbed.com January 30, 2019
If San Francisco is so great, why is everyone I love leaving?

We are witnessing two migrations: One is a continuation of the California dream. The other no one talks about, though it affects nearly everyone I know. I’m driving down the 101 toward San Francisco International Airport.
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thecut.com February 20, 2019
Who Killed Tulum?

The walls of seaweed first started washing over the white-sand beaches of Tulum, Mexico, in 2015. They came from deep in the Atlantic and across the Caribbean, darkening the neon-blue water.
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washingtonpost.com July 10, 2019
Pssst. Mobile Passport is the best-kept secret in air travel.

After a long-haul flight home from abroad, it is soul-crushing to see a long, snaking line to get through customs when you land at an American airport. If you’re lucky, maybe it moves quickly. If you’re smart, you have Mobile Passport downloaded on your phone.
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qz.com July 6, 2019
To get the most out of your next trip, travel like a reporter

Typical travel can feel a bit hollow. With just one or two weeks to discover a new place, there’s time to see the must-sees, try some great restaurants, and even discover a spot or two off the beaten path.
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nytimes.com January 15, 2014
How to Choose an Air Travel Search Site

Which airline booking sites offer the cheapest airfares? If your answer was Expedia — or any of the other dozens of online travel agencies — you’re wrong. If it was “They’re all the same,” you’re definitely wrong. “It’s so overwhelming, I have no idea”? You’re getting close.
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vice.com November 28, 2018
How to Cancel Your Flight for Free

Flight changes are a fact of life. Maybe you booked a trip home for the holidays back in September, then found out in November that you have to be in the office on Christmas Eve.
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thrillist.com May 19, 2017
The Best Small Town to Visit in All 50 States

The paradox of big-city travel is that you never really get a break. You ditch work in New York, LA, or Chicago to go visit your buddies in New York, LA, or Chicago; come Sunday night, you’re exhausted, and why did blowing $250 a day on cocktails and sushi and cabs seem like the smart move?
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bloomberg.com January 2, 2019
Where to Go in 2019

The 21 destinations that will be especially hot this year—and the data you need to plan your trip. Those are just two of twenty-plus destinations to prioritize in 2019, all chosen by our trend-spotting editors and global correspondents for their so-hot-right-now status.
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cnbc.com September 27, 2019
Here's where you can retire nicely on just $30,000 a year ... outside the US

If you've been racking your brain about where to retire on a budget, it might be time to think outside the U.S. To be sure, retiring in a new country will require studying up on the tax implications along with pulling off some other logistical maneuvering.
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mashable.com October 16, 2013
How I Flew Around the World in Business Class for $1,340

I recently booked a round-trip set of flights from Minneapolis to Shanghai in business class. I needed to head back to China to resume teaching English after the end of the photo season in Minneapolis, where I was shooting portraits and wedding photos.
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wisebread.com May 15, 2009
40 Most Useful Travel Websites That Can Save You a Fortune

Welcome Stumbled Upon & Delicious Users: You may also want to check out our 180+ Best Money Saving Tools. Traveling doesn't have to break the bank (in fact, you can travel for free), and there are plenty of places that'll help you find the best vacation for your budget.
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buzzfeed.com October 16, 2018
Flight Attendants Are Sharing Their Darkest Secrets And It's Honestly Kinda Shocking

This week, a Reddit thread by user Th3Flash asked flight attendants to spill all their little secrets that passengers don't know about. The thread quickly went viral, as more and more flight attendants started chiming in.
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tim.blog July 15, 2013
How to Travel: 21 Contrarian Rules

This is a tactical post on travel from Ryan Holiday, who’s written on this blog before about the pragmatism of Stoicism and lessons learned as Director of Marketing for American Apparel. To his 21 rules, I’ve added a few of my own tricks. Please share your own rules and tips in the comments!
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fastcompany.com April 13, 2015
No Internet, No Credit Cards, No Problem: How Airbnb Launched In Cuba

If you don’t know much about Cuba, Airbnb’s recent announcement that it has begun booking rooms there sounds pretty unremarkable. After all, Airbnb operates in more than 190 countries, and its offerings are as diverse as they are plentiful.
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businessinsider.com January 18, 2018
Here's exactly how many days you should book your flight in advance to save the most on airfare

Airline passengers are used to hearing someone say the cheapest day to book a flight is on a Tuesday.The most important trick to snagging cheaper airfare is to book your ticket precisely 54 days in advance.Plane tickets tend to hover at a static mark until they begin to drop at the 105-day mark.
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huffpost.com November 25, 2015
30 Ways to Use Your Smartphone When You Travel

One of the best gadgets for travelers may already be in your pocket. From first researching a trip to remembering where you went once you get back, here are 30 ways to put your smartphone to use when you travel. 1. As a travel agent: If you know your destination but not your dates, use the Fly.
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businessinsider.com March 22, 2019
How to score the cheapest flight possible every time, even if it's last minute

Trying to find a killer deal on a flight can feel like an endless search with too many options.
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outsideonline.com March 29, 2019
Climbing Mount Everest in 2019

Most of us will never climb Everest, but the mountain still looms large in our minds every spring when hundreds of hearty souls travel there for adventure. Everest sits on the border between Nepal and China, and the most popular route to the top has long been via Nepal, on the mountain's south side.
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tim.blog August 6, 2013
How to Travel to Exotic, Expensive Cities on $50 a Day

(Photo: Marc P. Demoz) OK, I’ve had a few short posts recently. Now it’s time for my favorite: a post you will want to print out, refer to often, and take with you on adventures. In this case, we’ll explore budget travel that is luxury travel.
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medium.com April 25, 2014
Lessons From a Year of Solo Travel

When you are alone for days or weeks at a time, you eventually become drawn to people. Talking to randos is the norm. I’ll never forget the conversation with the aquarium fisherman, forest ranger, and women at the Thai market.
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bbc.com July 25, 2019
The secret seat of the Knights Templar

It was a beautiful spring day in Paris and I was on the terrace of Café Charlot in the French capital’s chicest district, the Marais. Sipping an Aperol spritz, I watched the parade of Parisian glitterati sashay past me.
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nytimes.com September 14, 2015
The Art of ‘Farecasting’ the Lowest Airfare

What’s the easiest way to get the lowest airfare? A handful of new and updated websites and apps are trying to perfect the art of what’s known as farecasting — predicting the best date to buy a ticket.
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bbc.com August 2, 2019
The trick that makes you overspend

Like many of the now infamous cognitive biases that plague our thinking, the decoy effect was first documented in the 1980s, and the best way to understand these experiments is to consider an example. Imagine you are choosing flights from the following options.
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theguardian.com February 5, 2019
Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich

An extreme concentration of wealth in a city where even the air is for sale has produced a new breed of needle-like tower. By It is rare in the history of architecture for a new type of building to emerge.
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kotaku.com July 18, 2019
Tourists Are Causing Headaches In Japan

Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Until recently, Japan didn’t have much of an influx of foreign tourists. Now, it does, and with that comes problems.
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finance.yahoo.com June 14, 2019
20 Places Where You Can Retire on $200,000 and Feel Rich

With health care and other costs skyrocketing in the U.S., many soon-to-be retirees are considering what once might have been unthinkable: taking their retirement savings and moving overseas for their senior years.
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bloomberg.com May 28, 2019
A Summer From Hell Is Coming to U.S. Airports

Summer living is supposed to be easy, according to George Gershwin, but millions of air passengers during this year’s peak travel season may beg to differ thanks to a confluence of events that are making airlines and airports nervous. The U.S.
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bloomberg.com July 23, 2015
How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6 Billion Embarrassment

The inspectors could hardly believe what they were seeing.
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hakaimagazine.com August 27, 2019
Leviathans in the Harbor

This article is also available in audio format. Listen now, download, or subscribe to “Hakai Magazine Audio Edition” through your favorite podcast app. They first noticed the body when the Grand Princess loomed toward the dock in Ketchikan, Alaska.
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thehustle.co July 21, 2019
Why is airport food so expensive?

Earlier this week, while waiting to board an early morning flight from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon, I found myself stranded in Terminal 2, hungry and parched. My search for sustenance led me to a breakfast bar, where I procured a bagel and a small beverage. The total? $11.
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theatlantic.com August 18, 2019
The Dutch War on Tourists

The Dutch have suffered some brutal occupations, from the Roman empire and Viking raids to Spanish and Nazi rule. But now they face an even larger army of invaders: tourists. In the era of cheap flights and Airbnb, their numbers are staggering.
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nytimes.com March 13, 2017
The Other Airbnbs: Alternative Home-Sharing Rentals

What Airbnb has popularized — the peer-to-peer rental of apartments, homes and spare bedrooms — the market has embellished with a roster of new and growing services that offer home sharing.
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matadornetwork.com March 16, 2018
12 things I wish I knew before visiting Paris

Paris draws over 80 million visitors every year. In order to be able to enjoy and experience Paris to the fullest, without becoming overwhelmed by the throngs of crowds and places to see, it’s important to go with a plan in mind.
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nytimes.com March 21, 2019
Doomed Boeing Jets Lacked 2 Safety Features That Company Sold Only as Extras

As the pilots of the doomed Boeing jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia fought to control their planes, they lacked two notable safety features in their cockpits. One reason: Boeing charged extra for them.
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theguardian.com November 7, 2018
Beyond Beijing: six Chinese cities you need to know

Most visitors to China are inevitably drawn to the headline-stealing trinity of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, all enormous, vibrant cities that are, justifiably, at the top of the list of must-sees.
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newyorker.com May 23, 2019
The Invisible City Beneath Paris

The map runs to sixteen laminated foolscap pages, or about ten square feet, when I tile the pages together. I have been given it on the condition that I do not pass it on. It is not like any map I have ever seen, and I have seen some strange maps in my time.
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thrillist.com February 8, 2019
10 Incredible Countries Where You Can Live for Under $1,000 a Month

Travel widely enough, and you'll notice something about the Americans you encounter abroad.
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nytimes.com January 5, 2016
8 Things You Can Do Now to Save Money on Travel

Each of the last three Januaries, I’ve compiled tips on how to save money on travel in the year ahead. Much of that advice is still valid today, which is good, since most readers undoubtedly forgot about it by the time they began planning their vacations months later.
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nytimes.com May 25, 2016
3 Airfare Hacks for the Committed Penny-Pincher

There’s so much advice today on how to find rock-bottom airfares that it can be difficult to filter out the noise. Here are three flight-booking tips, though, that I can almost guarantee you weren’t aware of.
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vanityfair.com April 13, 2018
“As an Added Bonus, She Paid for Everything”: My Bright-Lights Misadventure with a Magician of Manhattan

According to my closest friends and various suspect Internet sources, turning 29 on January 29, 2017 marked my golden birthday. At the time, I wasn’t sure what that meant, but I had a gut feeling about my 30th year: it was going to be special; it was going to be good. It was a total disaster.
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nytimes.com January 21, 2019
In Britain, Enraptured by the Wild, Lonely and Remote

By the time the tiny hut came into view, nestled high in a corrie in Scotland’s 1,748-square-mile Cairngorms National Park, I’d trekked for nearly nine miles, three of which, regrettably, I’d had to navigate after nightfall.
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qz.com January 22, 2014
How to avoid every common mistake when booking a flight

This originally appeared at LinkedIn. You can follow Peter here. As the Travel Editor for CBS News, people expect that I spend weeks, even months, researching the process and logistics of travel. And I do.
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theverge.com August 3, 2016
Welcome to Airspace

How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world.
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businessinsider.com December 20, 2018
I flew home for the holidays on a little-known airline with zero wait time that feels like a chartered jet, and I'm never flying 'normally' again

It was around the time my cab driver asked whether I'd given him the right address that I realized I was either about to have a unique flight experience or end up completely lost. A few minutes later, as we pulled up to what looked like a small hotel, I saw the sign that should have reassured me.
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