This was not the first hotel self check in that I have used – but this one was fully digital. You enter your confirmation number and last name to confirm…
Continue readingExpedia and Booking.com own most all of the online travel web sites
Although dozens of travel-booking websites seem to fight one another for our travel dollars, what looks like healthy competition is actually an illusion. Agoda, Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Kayak, Momondo,…
Continue readingToo much money? Too much tourism? Tourism as entertainment?
“Extreme tourism” is a $300 billion/year business now, and is expected to reach $1 trillion per year. This seems more like entertainment than what I think of as travel, but it is what it is.
Continue readingChairman Xi Jinping says people need to travel more
Travel enhances understanding and develops new ways of viewing problems and identifying solutions.
Continue readingAmericans who moved to Portugal are leaving, says news report
Claims that bureaucracy and rising costs have discouraged expats that moved to Portugal. Reality: There were never really that many Americans who moved to Portugal.
Continue readingAustralia’s immigrant age discrimination is intense
Several countries practice intense age discrimination towards immigrants. Australia has told a British couple in their 50s that they are now too old to apply for permanent residency and must leave Australia, even though they lived there for 8 years. Australia bans residency applications for those over age 45.
Continue readingAirports: Went through SeaTac yesterday, chaos and meltdown
SeaTac Airport, or the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington State, was in what is apparently its normal state of chaos and disarray each morning. We flew in to SeaTac late…
Continue reading“Passport bros” – that’s a new term
Yet another “story” sourced to social media posts, this one posits that American men are traveling abroad in search of a vaguely defined “traditional wife”. Everything posted on social media is of critical importance, meaningful and accurate and is the highest qualify source of information. Hah hah.
Continue readingIceland, the EU and aviation emissions
Limits on aviation will have crippling impacts on island nations like Iceland. The bureaucratic mindset is they should only use electric high speed rail … (Iceland, an island, does not even have any rail tracks on the island.)
Continue readingAir travel: Officials seem moving towards de facto air travel bans
The EU wants a 55% reduction in aviation “carbon emissions” by 2030; there is no known technology to achieve this, which means air travel in Europe will be cut and available mostly to the extremely wealthy.
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