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Travel fell again in 2009, according to U.S. Department of Commerce data, as a weak economy put pressure on both personal and corporate travel budgets. Only 3.6 million people arrived from other countries, marking a decline of 11 percent from ...

Last year, 58 million international visitors came to the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. That's an increase of nearly 4 percent from 2007. To sweeten it up a bit, 13 of the top 25 arrivals markets saw new records set. In ...

With the recent death of the last veteran to fight in the trenches of World War One, one of the twentieth century's most convulsive events has passed into history. From 1914-18, great armies battered at each other across a hellish landscape in which ...

The European operation of the Best Western hotel chain has become the victim of a massive cyber-theft attack. By placing a "keylogger" on a corporate computer connected to their reservations system, a whopping 8 million customer records were stolen. ...

A researcher on poverty and development and a professor at Yale, Chris Blattman is the man behind a terrific blog that focuses on the political, economic, and cultural goings-on in the poorest countries in the world. Yesterday, Chris tackled an ...

The Old West was a place where there were gunfights on every street, the bank got robbed every day, and every saloon was filled with girls dancing the can-can. Well, actually it wasn't, but that's the way it seems from the movies, and a lot of those ...

The San Luis Obispo Tribune runs a great piece for those wanting to go to Europe and make the most out of their Euro's.  The article offers several suggestions and skipping over Western Europe is one of them.  Try Eastern ...

Europe, not Grandma's, is the big destination for Americans traveling over the Thanksgiving holiday. Reuters reports that "vacation starved" U.S. citizens are using this holiday as an opportunity to visit Europe and other destinations. Although ...

When you purchase your GPS unit, it'll usually come with maps of the US, Puerto Rico and Canada. In some cases, the unit may even expand into Mexico, and premium systems will have Europe pre-loaded. If you are heading abroad, but your GPS unit does ...

Long train journeys are one of the simple joys in life. I don't mean a three-day journey through Europe where one has to switch trains every 6 hours. No, I mean a continuous train journey where you board at point A and don't have to get off again ...

Adelle and Ron Milavsky, a lovely retired couple who live in Connecticut, have been road-tripping across Europe for years. They've written the definitive guide on RV trips, Take Your RV to Europe: The Low-Cost Route to Long-Term Touring and now here ...

Here is one to Romania! It's hard to believe they will be a part of the EU in no time... I have never been but the mountains (Piatra Craiului) are supposed to be great. A few of my friends have gone there to hike and ski and loved it. Here is a ...

Talk about a massive travel project. Well, it even has a name to match its scale: It's called the Goliath Expedition. The Goliath Expedition is  Karl Bushby's 36,000 mile gargantuan trek around the world. A monster, nay, Goliath effort to ...

The Danube is perhaps most well known for sharing half the title of a very famous waltz, The Blue Danube. It is also quite beloved as a popular cruising destination in Western Europe. It starts in Germany's Black Forest and continues through Austria ...