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Travel Health & Safety: The Deadly Dozen Travel Diseases

More than 60 million Americans leave the country each year, so it's statistically certain that a small percentage of them will fall ill while traveling. Here's how to arrive prepared.

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Flying Sick? 4 Secrets for Surviving Your Trip

Why would anyone get on an aircraft while in the throes of a contagious, debilitating viral infection? Maybe the question should be: Why not?

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Pauline Frommer's Spend Less, See More Tips for Traveling Green

In this series of monthly tips, you'll find some terrific ideas to help you get the most out of every trip. This time around, I share with you seven ways you can make your next journey…

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Travel Health & Safety: Tummy Tucks Abroad?

Since health care and plastic surgery costs are so high in the US, some travelers are getting the work done abroad, often at half the cost or even less, than what it would take here.

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Greenwashed! Make Sense of the Travel Industry's Eco Promises

Travelers want to feel socially responsible -- and the travel industry, true to character, is more than happy to take their money. Even if it's doing nothing meaningful to help the…

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Travel Health & Safety: Safest Airlines & Planes

With the grounding of thousands of flights, is something basically wrong airplanes? Well, yes, there is something wrong, but it's not the safety of our airline fleet.

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Travel Troubleshooter: Where Are My Vouchers?

Our couple can't make their return flight from Venice after the wife is injured on a cruise. US Airways promises vouchers for the unused portion, but months there's still no sign of…

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That's Sick! 9 Ways to Avoid the Bug When You Travel

Why you should always wash your hands, and eight things you should avoid when you're traveling, courtesy of this column's readers and the lessons current events have taught us.

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Travel Health & Safety: Buying Insurance

Can insurance keep a Caribbean hurricane, an English flood, or a Colorado mudslide from ruining your next vacation?

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4 Secrets for the Perfectly Timed Vacation

If you've seen one tourism brochure that refers to itself as a 'year-round' destination, you've probably seen them all. They lie, of course.

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Travel Troubleshooter: No Refunds for the Dead

A couple plans a 50th anniversary trip to Europe, but one spouse dies unexpectedly. Shouldn't the airline give the survivor a refund rather than vouchers?

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Travel Troubleshooter: Hey, Where's My Airline Seat?

Half of our reader's airline seat is missing. An extra-large passenger is sitting in it, forcing her to lean into the aisle or sit on the passenger's lap. What can she do?

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Travel Health & Safety: Decoding Airlines' Special Meals

Don't make enemies with your stomach when you fly: Find out how to get a better meal before you take off again.

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Travel Insurance: When You Need it and What You Need to Ask

It may be a good time to be in the travel insurance business, but is it a good time to buy travel insurance?

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The Travel Insurance Question: Do I Really Need It?

It may be a good time to be in the travel insurance business, but is it a good time to buy travel insurance?

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5 Things Airlines Won't Tell You About Their Food

Although some airlines have made an effort to improve the food, there are a few things they aren't telling you about the fare up there.

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Travel Writing 101: What Exactly is Travel?

Anyone can be a travel writer. But what makes a travel writer different from, say, a mystery writer, or one who crafts sentences about romance, children's stories or even humor?

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Travel Tech: Do Air Purifiers Work on Plane Trips?

Our health expert makes sense of the mini purifiers that promise to make your next trip sniffle free.

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Travel Troubleshooter: No Room, No Refund, No Fair?

What if you prepay for a hotel but there's no room for you? Our guest gets the run around from his New York hotel and Priceline.com Did he get what he deserves?

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Travel Health & Safety: 7 Food Allergy Tips

You needn't stay home or court disaster: By preparing for the worst you can sail through most situations with little or no effort on your part.

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Travel Troubleshooter: Plenty of Rain, But No Raincheck for Leaky Hotel

What happens when a storm threatens to ruin a vacation, but the booking agent won't let you reschedule?

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Travel Health & Safety: Plenty of Fish in the Sea?

Here are some tips on avoiding becoming sick as a result of eating fish while you are on the road -- or at home, for that matter.

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Travel Health & Safety: Are You Going to Eat That?

Getting sick from something you ate is bad enough at home, but ten times worse when you're traveling.

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Travel Health & Safety: Can I Drink the Water?

A tall glass of water isn't always all it's cracked up to be. What water wisdom you need to know before your next trip.

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Expert Advice for Minimizing Flight Delays

After one of the worst summers for air travel in years, what can you do to make your next flight more enjoyable?