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Boarding Pass

Boarding Pass, December 2007 issue
Boarding Pass
Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 382nd issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine, the one written largely by you and your fellow subscribers! A few items worth noting crossed my desk this month. The International Airline Passenger Association, or IAPA (www.iapa.com), in a Sept. 14 press release wrote, “The U.S. Department of Transportation is considering new rules which ...

How Much to tip on Tours?

Travelers' Intercom, August 2007 issue
Richard E. Smith of Long Beach, California, urged readers to comment about tipping on tours (April ’07, pg. 4). Questions he asked included 1) “Should the cost of tipping be included in the tour price?,” 2) “Should there be an existing standard for tipping adhered to by most tour companies?,” 3) “Should an escrow tipping ...

Incredible India — The South

Features, January 2006 issue
Incredible India — The South
by Ian McGary, Mountain View, CA Continued from last month’s “Incredible India — The North” After saying good-bye to our Philadelphia travel companions with whom we toured North India, my husband, Chuck, and I flew from Mumbai to Kerala at the southwestern tip of the country. The next two weeks of our tour were customized for just ...

Buenos Aires — delving into the soul of the city

Features, March 2005 issue
—Col. Harold Grady, St. Louis, MO When the rat race gets too hectic, the travel bug bites me and I yearn for exotic places and faraway lands. However, for 2004 my wife, Donna, and I were in a quandary about where to travel. We crossed Europe off our list because of the weak dollar there. Likewise, ...

Tabulating opinions on England’s top sites

Travelers' Intercom, May 2004 issue
The ITN staff found the strategy described in the following letter clever and thought that, with the wealth of guidebooks available on so many destinations, some readers might be inspired to use this method in planning which sites to visit. In view of the plethora of guidebooks on England and their sometimes divergent opinions, a few ...