India has always been a cheap country to travel through, but it’s now cheaper than ever. As the galavanting guru Arthur Frommer points out in a recent blog post, the exchange rate of the Indian Rupee is at a historical low as compared to the U.S. dollar, with each greenback [...]

I’m crazy for pictures. You put a picture of a cheeseburger in the menu of a five-star restaurant and that’s what I’m ordering. Screw the caviar, unless there’s a picture, it’s losing out to the photo option. Apparently, my quirkiness also works for travel. In particular, I recently came across [...]

Notice anything different this month when you searched for airfares on Google? Try typing in “New York to Los Angeles,” and you’ll notice that Google’s Flight Search service now pops up at the top of results — below several advertisements, but prominently “above the fold” (industry term for the part [...]

I’m not one for taking to heart the warnings of danger when traveling. From the overblown threat of pickpocketers in Barcelona to the unfounded warnings of imminent kidnapping the second one steps off the plane in Colombia, I often wonder whether these rumors of danger are often nothing more than [...]

TechCrunch is reporting that American Airlines will be the first major carrier to use iPads instead of paper flight charts. Why, you may ask, are they doing this? Are AA pilots young, hipster types that rely on Apple devices in a proportionally higher amount than the average populace? Not exactly, [...]

With the end of Secretary of State Clinton’s historic visit to Myanmar (Burma) wrapping up last week — the first of any high-ranking official from the U.S. in 50 years — it’s safe to assume that a good portion of the millions of eyes that watched as Clinton toured Shwedegon [...]

You knew that hotel prices in New York were up there, but seeing it portrayed in the infographic below only drives home how high they really are. Compared to places like Manila, Riga, Hanoi and Budapest, uber-expensive cities such as New York, Geneva, Venice and Moscow make you want to [...]

American Airlines announced today that it would be filing for Chapter 11 reorganization in federal bankruptcy court in New York to restructure the company’s debt and costs (which many believe to be code for adjusting their historically generous pensions and union contracts). So what does this mean for you, American [...]

The opening of the National September 11 Memorial Museum is being pushed back from its scheduled September 2012 opening date. The construction of the newly-opened memorial and the accompanying museum is a joint project between The National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, Inc. and [...]

I thought I’d pass along this tip that came to me by way of Travelzoo today, a deal I hope is just the beginning of a wave of flight deals coming our way beginning this winter. Book by November 17 for flights via Qatar Airways from New York to Mumbai or [...]