Travel industry

What’s up with those ridiculous rates you see posted on hotel room doors? I once stayed at some crappy roadside motel in Nowheresville, Georgia. The towels were thin, the toiletries the cheapest you can buy, the carpet worn, the bathroom held together by many tubes of caulk. The room rate listed on the back of …

In the big scheme of things to complain about, I’ll admit that dumb and annoying travel advertisements don’t rank very high on the scale. But after looking at these two ads for months across multiple publications, I’ve realized that they represent a black hole of stupidity, millions of dollars turned over to some ad agency …

You’re waiting in the dentist’s office, perusing the newsstand, or surfing through your RSS reader and you can’t help but be drawn in to the headlines: This Year’s It List! Our Hot List Issue! The Hot Spots for 2011! Where to Travel This Year! It’s a tactic as old as magazines themselves and it’ll probably …

It’s time for a quiz. Quickly, name the first two or three Caribbean islands that pop into your head. Name a South Pacific island with nice beaches. Name a city worth visiting in Europe. For the last category, Vienna or Salzburg may be closer to the tip of the tongue this week, for this past …