Tagged: freedom

If the SAVE Act Passes, Americans May Not Get Their Passports On Time in 2026

If you don't pay a lot of attention to the news right now, you've forgiven. The headlines aren't doing most of us any favors.But there's one development that could have a massive…

Prisoners in Their Own Country: Three Ways America's Government Is Betraying the Freedom to Travel

July 30, 2020 When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assert their government has dissolved its responsibility to the service of their rights, a…

Another Foolish Effort by Trump to Ban Travel to Cuba, Says Arthur Frommer

As if their previous efforts had not been sufficiently foolish, the Trump administration has just announced a further effort to reduce travel to Cuba. Effective in just a few…

Arthur Frommer: Preventing Travel to Cuba Is Harming Ordinary Cubans the Most

When the Trump Administration recently announced its reversal of the Obama effort to permit American travel to Cuba, it justified this new limitation by the effect it would have on the…

Trump Administration Announces Bans on Cruises and Tours to Cuba

The other zapato has dropped. In April, White House National Security Advisor John Bolton announced that the Treasury Department would soon implement new regulations to restrict…

Arthur Frommer's Travel Resolutions for the New Year

Because they often seek to regulate all of human activity, I find most New Year’s Resolutions to be rather unsatisfying. Here’s an attempt to limit these rules to the world of travel,…

Dubai Detains Tourist for Being Transgender

Canadian transgender YouTube personality Gigi Gorgeous says she was detained in Dubai's airport, interrogated for five hours, and summarily denied entry to the United Arab…

Family Travel: 4 Fun-in-the-Sun Escapes

With spring break right around the corner, great family vacation deals are sprouting like daffodils. Whether you feel like heading to a resort, a theme park or the beach, we've got…

What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Virginia

Long a reliably Republican conservative bastion, Virginia could be a swing state in the 2008 presidential elections. Democrats took control of the state senate in 2007 for the first…

What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Costa Rica

Planning Your Trip A new currency program, instituted in the past year has largely stabilized the exchange rate, which is set within a narrow "band" of several colones. As of August…