Ah, the 21st century. It doesn’t seem possible we made it through the stone ages of the nineties without the online conveniences we currently have. But we did, and now here’s a list of the best travel websites to use as tools to enhance your trip, as a modern international traveler. Make your traveling life, [...]
Note: this is not a sponsored post. Just a personally recommended resource for our blog readers and savvy AirTreks customers. There were times when travelers had to do all sorts of unpleasant things to find accommodations on a multi-destination trip: flip through pamphlets, pickup telephones, actually talk to people. The horror! These days the Internet [...]
It may be hard to accept that with the recent proliferation of travel planning websites it’s actually become more difficult to find a good one, but it stands to reason the more choices one has, the harder it is to choose between them. When it comes to RTW travel planning, yes, there are hundreds of [...]
A couple weeks ago I sent out an offer on our Facebook page that any amateur travel blogger who follows AirTreks post their blog URL and I’d promote it here on ours, hopefully to spread the word about their travels and whatever else that happened to be contained inside. Seven bloggers in total posted their [...]
It’s been a hoot talking about family travel over the past few weeks, getting to know several family travel bloggers out there in the trenches and gleaning tips from the fray. Some great advice has risen to the surface and with any luck a handful of new traveling parents have reaped some benefit. To round [...]
It seems we’re growing up. There’s no better way to tell than by the enjoyment we’re getting hearing people talk about traveling with their children. That and my little boy. To celebrate all the parents who risk so much to take their wee ones on the road with them, I’m declaring the rest of March [...]
Websites have come a long way – from the glory days of HTML frames and hyperlinks we’ve passed into an era where it’s simply not enough to just have a website, it needs to have bells, whistles, cannon fire, and a World Series ticker tape parade. Of course a travel site needs form, function and [...]
If you’ve ever sat down and tried to hammer out a travel budget for countries you’ve never been to, you’ll know just how challenging this process can be. Eardex, or more evocatively, the Earth Index, to the rescue. Eardex is a tool that provides a comparative overview of costs for traveling essentials in cities, regions [...]
One look at my RSS reader will tell you how much great content is being generated each and every day by the bloggers trying to either develop a following or, and this is probably more likely, merely do what they love to do: talk about travel. Here is a selection of posts that I saw [...]
Your average everyday multi-national corporation doesn’t typically put forth a great deal of effort to help celebrate cultural awareness. Unless the courts had something to do with it. Ahem. But occasionally one does something to spotlight the world’s diversity. In an ad campaign that started in 2008, AT&T Wireless started promoting the cultural, geographic and [...]
