Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Student Travel

...ou need to decide the destination! If in the US, Austin or New York are the really popular choices for the student traveler; the three major destinations in Europe for student travel are London, Paris and Rome; and for less packed countries eastern Europe is the most appealing destination. The really good news is that Mexico is the rising star!

A student Identity Card is the first step for getting student travel discounts. One of the websites providing these ID's is ISIC, and also provides details about student travel discounts available worldwide. The websites you should consider while hunting for student travel deals are: STA Travel, Student Universe, Travelosophy, Orbitz Student Airfare and Priceline. Student travel agencies will help you plan your adventure with package deals, tour booking and travel insurances. It is r...more

Travel Safe and Fun this Holiday Season - Promotional Items They'll Be Thankful To Receive!

... a zip-top clear plastic bag. It will be a much appreciated item on the day of the flight. Another great item is a brightly colored luggage tag. As much as people may think their luggage is distinctive, it's usually not. Giving them a neon colored luggage tag with your company's logo can avoid that claustrophobic feeling around the baggage carousel.

Traveling By Car

Thanksgiving is typically the busiest road travel day of the year. This means one thing: traffic. It's never pleasant, but if you happen to be in a car filled with little ones who aren't yet sleepy from turkey, it can be a true test of character. Giving a little ga...more

Travel Agents-An Endangered Species?

...in 2001. He subsequently bought Hotels.com and ticket Master.

Cendant Corporation, a giant conglomerate, bought Orbitz, another on-line travel agency, a couple of years later for $1.2 Billion.

Donald Trump just joined the fray with his own travel company, Go Trump.

Wal-Mart has also developed an on-line travel subsidiary.

Some of the new players are introducing their own variations on the theme.

American Express, the financial giant, is selling their own private label travel websites as franchises, empowering ordinary people to partake of the Internet Travel Boom by purchasing a travel franchise for $10,000.

Magic Johnson, the Hall of Fame bas...more

How To Evaluate Yearly Worldwide Travel Coverage

...ackpacking adventures, and plans designed with folks over 65 in mind.

You can purchase the best buys in worldwide travel insurance for a year's worth of worldwide coverage that includes the U.S. and Canada as well as Europe, or you can choose to exclude the United States and Canada. This coverage, while noted as worldwide travel insurance does exclude from coverage several high-risk areas - the countries of Israel, Lebanon, Libya and Algeria. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find annual or single trip travel insurance coverage for these countries anywhere.

Let's look at an example quote and see if it is indeed one of the...more

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