Travel industry

Around 30 years ago, I was on my first trip around the world, one that had started in 1993. I had spent much of that year kicking back on tropical islands, staying in  $4 bungalows, wondering whether I should have rice or noodles for my next meal. I was traveling through Southeast Asia, Nepal, India, …

Some of you have been reading this Cheapest Destinations Blog for a long time, but a whole other set of readers land here for the first time after I show up in some search query or another. Google, also known as Big Brother of the Internet, released a major update last month that did something …

Editor’s note: This post is from a few years ago, before the NYT dropped their affiliation with the local travel show. Hey, newspapers are not what they used to be and they don’t have the stable of advertisers they used to. I’m leaving this up as a snapshot with some interesting tidbits though. I just …

Did you know that Pattaya is more popular than Amsterdam? Or that Antalya gets twice as many visitors as Cancun? There are some interesting findings when you step away from the “hot list” travel media and look at where people are traveling around the world for real. What are the most popular destination cities in …

  What are the best destinations to visit this coming year? Where should you go on vacation? What’s the best holiday hotspot, what’s the hot place to travel to now?  Well, I’d love to answer that for you because apparently it would get shared a lot if I could put out an authoritative-sounding list. Really …