How can a city so revered for its aesthetic beauty and so dependent on tourism (Paris is the most visited city on Earth) have the worst airport it in the world? Perhaps it is for those very same reasons. An overabundance of attention spent on maintaining the city itself and [...]

News broke this week of a German tour operator attempting to amend their contracts with Greek hotels to include language that would allow payments in a new Greek currency (presumably a cheaper valued one) should the country drop the Euro. Which begs the question: Would a defaulted Greece mean cheaper [...]

In April of this year, I encouraged you to travel to Egypt with Megan Fox. You did not listen to me, and now Egypt’s tourism is on pace to finish 25% down this year, accounting for around a $3 Billion loss of Egypt’s $15 Billion tourist economy. Egypt hasn’t looked [...]

If you’re a fully-employed American reading this right now, I’d advise you to quickly go to another page, perhaps a YouTube video of a mother cat hugging a baby kitten. Above is a chart of the the top 13 countries in the world ranked by number of paid vacation days [...]

It’s time to get that department store flashlight out of your face and stop telling those wussy tales of pretend ghosts around the campfire this weekend. These are the real deal, and as Matador says, it’s time to “sack up” and be a haunted house ninja this Halloween. This is [...]

Monsoon rains in Thailand have been causing an already drenched country to get even wetter, with water now sweeping from the north southward into Bangkok, one of Asia’s largest cities. As the WSJ reports: Most of Bangkok’s central business district remained dry on Thursday and operating more or less usual, [...]

The future of airline mobile apps are here, and it apparently involves helping you find the closest airport bathroom. As people rely more on mobile computing, apps are increasingly growing in importance, and the airliners are racing to keep up. Though many airliners allow you to perform basic tasks like [...]

In an effort to boost tourism to Japan following a 50 percent decline in visitors since the March 11 earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster, the Japan Tourism Agency announced it will be offering 10,000 free trips to the country beginning next April. It appears that this offer covers [...]

Just in time for your recently depleted bank account (thank you new winter coat!), the NY Times decided to give you a few suggestions on how to find cheap flights this fall (and winter) to Europe. Of the six suggestions, the most useful is their first: Use a jump city. [...]

It is an accepted fact of life that when a traveler concludes a cross-timezone flight, they are going to look pretty rough. They will be starving because in-flight peanuts don’t suffice for dinner. They will hobble from the gate, gimp-like, after being cramped in a window seat. And most of [...]