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Its Hotels Already Full to Bursting, New York May be Unable to Further Increase Its Tourism Unless Residents are Able to Rent Out Their Apartments to Transient Visitors

Fifty-five million guests in 2014.  That's the current end-of-year projection for tourism to the Big Apple, a figure that is five million more than was predicted for 2017 by its…

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Don't Look Now, But I'm Again Venting My Spleen About the Harry Potter Theme Parks in Orlando

On a recent visit to Orlando, Florida, I finally went to the much-publicized, much-acclaimed Harry Potter exhibit at Universal Studios' "Islands of Adventure", and was…

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"Road Scholar" is Operating the Same Praiseworthy Trips That its Predecessor, "Elderhostel", Had Offered for Nearly 40 Years

Although it widely publicized and explained its change of name several years ago, when it went from "Elderhostel" to "Road Scholar", the resulting organization is not always fully…

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When Traveling by Air, You Can Do Yourself a World of Good by Performing Certain Exercises Either in Your Seat or at the Back of the Plane

One of the joys of my life is an exercise class I take twice a week, at which people my age engage in rhythmic stretching, light weight-lifting, balancing, leg strengthening, and…

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More Visitors to New York City Are Spending a Considerable Amount of Time in Brooklyn, Not Only for Their Lodgings But For Their Cultural Entertainment

Would-be visitors to New York City face a dreadful paradox.  On the one hand, they yearn to experience The Big Apple.  But when they call for a hotel reservation, they encounter…

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Foreign River Cruises Are the Big Travel Hit of 2014, But Whether They're For You is an Open Question

River cruises are the big success of the current travel season:  as amazing as it may seem, no fewer than 53 new river cruiseships will bejoining an already-large number this year…

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The Questions Put to our Weekly Radio Program Reveal Broadly-Held Travel Concerns--As Witness the Following

Although some of the questions put to us on our weekly radio program may seem rather ordinary at first, they nevertheless reflect widespread concerns about problems in travel.…

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A Website Called Wanderu is Now Able to Advise You About Nearly All the Low-Cost Bus Services for Travel in the U.S.A

With the recent expansion of a major internet site for booking bus transportation, the bus has come into its own as a major method for travel within the United States.  None other…

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Tourism to Machu Picchu Has Virtually Exploded in Recent Years, Despite the Refutation of Its Most Popular Explanation

In the world of travel, Machu PIcchu, the famed "Lost City of the Andes", occupies an increasingly-high position.  Currently, more than 1,000,000 tourists a year are visiting…

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A New App for Your Cellphone or Tablet Lets You Read Magazines for Free, But only at an Airport or in the Plane!

If an entrepreneur were to create a cellphone app that permitted you to read various magazines free of charge, that wouldn't be a news event suitable for…

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A Number of the Questions Recently Posed to Our Weekly Radio Program Reveal Strong Concerns About Problems in Travel

Although some of the questions put to our Sunday radio program may seem rather ordinary at first, they nevertheless reflect widespread concerns about problems in travel.  Here…

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A Broad Range of Non-Academic Learning Vacations of Varied Sorts (But Mainly in Arts and Crafts) Are Still Available for Your Summer Vadcation

In the world of learning vacations, such famous names as Oxford, Cambridge, Cornell and St. John's tend to dominate discussion.  These are the schools to which a great many…

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Tourism to Machu Picchu Has Virtually Exploded in Recent Years, Despite the Refutation of Bingham's Theory About It

In the world of travel, Machu PIcchu, the famed "Lost City of the Andes", occupies an increasingly-high position.  Currently, more than 1,000,000 tourists a year are visiting this…

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Ever Heard of the "Upper West Side"? It's My Own Favorite Stomping Ground, Which Apparently Stamps Me as Something of a Square

Let me start with a disclaimer:  I am well aware that visitors to New York come here for the city's most famous sights:  the U.N., Broadway Shows, Rockefeller Center,…

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In Terms of its Controversial Social Policies, Amsterdam Remains One of the Most Interesting of European Cities--You'll Want to Schedule a Stay

In a long-ago time when Amsterdam was thought to be "quaint", a place of tulips and wooden shoes, I wrote a travel guide called "Surprising Amsterdam", whose point was that…

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A Multitude of Americans Will be Traveling to Italy this Summer and Fall, and I've Been Prompted to Remember the Reasons Why

The appeal of Italy to American vacationers is one of the greatenduring phenomena of travel. Although it costs considerably more to flyto Rome than to London or…

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But I Usually Prefer Paris to Everywhere Else on Earth. Why is That?

It always happens.  Towards the end of every TV, radio or newspaper interview, I am asked, "If you could vacation in only one  place in the world, where would it be?"…

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Guidebook Sales in the Bookstores Are An Unscientific Method of Predicting Travel Patterns, But They Seem as Good as Any Other Test

We are approaching the summer high season, when tens of millions of Americans head for vacation to the mountains and lakes within an hour or two of their homes.  But a…

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Isn't It Time for Someone With a Bit of Imagination to Take Over at Universal Studios Florida?

The internet is full of news this past week about a major new attraction coming to the theme parks of Orlando in the coming year:  the world's steepest water slide.  The stories…

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Tired of My Gripes About Cruises? I Have a Few More--But Also Some Positive Suggestions

It may well be that America's infatuation with the ocean cruise is beginning to wane a bit.  Recent studies show a fair amount of worry about the safety of cruising.  People are…

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There's Been a "Sea Change" in the Character of Ocean Cruises, and the Only Remedy Seems an Increase in What You Spend for a Cruise

Cruises are no longer what they used to be.  They are today so different as to make you consider several all-but-astonishing recent developments, as follows:…

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Here are Recent Travel Questions that Mirror the Concerns of American Vacationers--and Our Answers to Them

Although the questions we receive from readers deal with their own specific travel concerns, they should be of value to others.  So here are a recent batch:Q.…

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In the Wake of Economic Recovery, and a More Recent Brutal Winter Up North, the Resorts of Florida Have Enjoyed Remarkable Prosperity and Growth by Leaps and Bounds

The remarkable growth of coastal resort towns in Florida is a big travel development.  Twelve years go, when I last visited the town of Delray Beach between Fort Lauderdale…

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Here's a Number of Varied Developments in Travel That May Affect Your Next Vacation; Consider Them Well

You're stuck at an airport because of a delayed or cancelled flight, and you urgently need assistance from the airline in question.  But there's a line of eighty other…

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All Throughout the Year, And Not Simply in Winter, Americans Enjoy the Varied Plesures of Some Seven Caribbean Islands--We'll Name Them--Among Others

Though spring, summer and early fall are decidedly "off-season" in the Caribbean, it's surprising to note how many Americans vacation there year-around.  The biggest…