Tag: travel

3 Tips for How to Budget Travel in 2022

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Reading Time: 2 minutes If you want to travel in the year 2022, it’s important to budget your trip in advance. It is crucial to have a plan for how much you’ll spend on the trip, but saving for the trip isn’t always easy. To increase your travel budget, you should track your purchases, payments, and other expenses. Keeping track of your finances will help you to modify your spending habits. Listed below are 3 tips for how to budget your trip. First, make sure to research travel costs. Gas prices are one of the biggest…

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Protecting Women while they Travel

Maryssa Gordon

Reading Time: < 1 minute UrSafe will provide its personal safety app to Solo Female Travelers’ nearly 90,000 members around the world in a deal announced today by UrSafe CEO Anthony Oyogoa, M.D and Solo Female Travelers co-founders Meg Jerrard and Mar Pages. Interest in solo female travel is rising, and search volumes for the term grew six-fold in the four years before the start of the pandemic, but despite the growing trend, women still face many challenges and stereotypes when planning to travel on their own. Female-identifying individuals encounter additional challenges. “Our survey revealed that safety is the…

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Risks and Benefits of the COVID Passport

Maryssa Gordon

Reading Time: < 1 minute Millions across the world are eagerly awaiting future travel as COVID-19 vaccinations ramp up and cases trend down. Even though ‘vaxications’ are on the rise, traveling in our current world is not going to be as easy as it once was pre-pandemic. Additional travel to-do’s will be added to the lists of anyone who wants to travel to America like evidence that they have tested negative for COVID-19 and with the emergence of digital vaccine passports. With over 400 million vaccinated against the virus worldwide, print-outs and photos of vaccination records are easily faked or…

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Reserve a Dumpster for Your “Trash” Ex this Valentine’s Day

Maryssa Gordon

Reading Time: 2 minutes Does Valentine’s Day bring you all those warm, fuzzy feelings, or does it unearth annual flashbacks of the former flame who did you wrong? For travelers with emotional baggage looking for closure and sweet revenge, Hotels.com is listing the only stay suitable for a trash ex –a dumpster. Now through Feb. 12 at 8 a.m. ET, visit hotels.com/vdaydumpsterstay to tell them why your ex deserves a stay in the dumps and where your dreamiest hotel stay would be. You’ll receive a totally fictional yet equally satisfying booking confirmation email for your ex’s V-Day Dumpster Stay,…

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Expected Travel Trends for 2021

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Reading Time: 5 minutes What do Lima, Osaka and Lisbon have in common? These were all trending destinations for U.S. travelers in 2019. Fast-forward to 2020’s trending list: Lincoln, New Hampshire. Lake Havasu, Arizona. The Hamptons, New York. Whether it was by necessity or design, it’s clear Americans spent 2020 exploring small towns, scenic drives, nearby lakes and beaches, or in some cases, their own backyards. Today, Expedia.com® released its 2021 Travel Trends Report, analyzing traveler data to uncover the biggest takeaways from an unprecedented year, and what travelers can expect in the year ahead. In addition to tapping into its own massive…

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Travelocity Makes Predictions About the Holidays

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The holiday season is typically one of the biggest travel moments of the year, but with COVID-19 still active in the U.S., a recent survey by Travelocity®  finds that almost 60% of Americans report they won’t be traveling to see friends and family this year and of those, nearly one-in-three said they won’t celebrate the holidays at all. However, that doesn’t mean they’re staying home this winter, either. The Travelocity 2020 Holiday Outlook survey1, conducted in mid-September, found that some travelers are feeling optimistic when it comes to leisure travel for the remainder of the year. One-in-four respondents said they have a personal…

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