May 6th, 2013 at 3:00PM: They all talk about it. "Like us on Facebook," "Follow us on Twitter" and "Read our blog," say travel-related websites selling everything from guidebooks to airline flights, gear and gum. Many give us little reason to like them, follow them or do anything other than buy their products on the way to the next online destination. But some travel seller sites actually do put some time and effort into ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Travel-Related Websites That Really Engage Their Customers
May 6th, 2013 at 3:00PM: They all talk about it. "Like us on Facebook," "Follow us on Twitter" and "Read our blog," say travel-related websites selling everything from guidebooks to airline flights, gear and gum. Many give us little reason to like them, follow them or do anything other than buy their products on the way to the next online destination. But some travel seller sites actually do put some time and effort into ...Kayak Data Analysis Brings Budget Travel Tips, Not God-Like Mantra
Mar 21st, 2013 at 3:00PM:
Kayak, the travel search giant, took a look at more than a billion search inquires throughout 2012. Crunching the numbers, they came up with some interesting information. Based on what those who visit the popular website were looking for, Kayak has some tips aimed to save on travel. Considered a snapshot of information, the study is relatively harmless and can be a generally helpful budgetary ...Top Holiday Travel Destinations: Where To Go And Where To Avoid (If You Can)
Dec 20th, 2012 at 12:00PM: We all know that holiday travel can be a nightmare, with everyone and their mother flying home for the holidays. This holiday season will be particularly difficult, with both Christmas and New Year's falling just after a weekend, meaning that many travelers will opt to maximize holiday vacation with multiple trips.
But where are most people headed? It seems like warm weather is a major draw. ...Video Of The Day: Humpback Whale Gets Dangerously Close To Kayakers
Aug 27th, 2012 at 5:00PM:
A mother and daughter kayaking in Avila Beach along the coast of California get a surprise from a 30-ton humpback whale when it surfaces within just a few feet of their boats. You can tell the women are surprised from their screams (be sure to keep the volume low on this one).
"I quit filming it because the whale was still moving forward and it ran into me," the daughter writes, adding she ...
2012 Labor Day Travel Trends
Aug 22nd, 2012 at 9:00AM: Labor Day is just around the corner, and new data from KAYAK shows just where travelers are searching.
If you're planning a flight, Las Vegas, New York and Chicago are the top flight search destinations for Labor Day. Average clicked fares for travel to these destinations for the holiday weekend were $291, $300 and $254, respectively.
Of course, you'll save money if you travel after the ...Video: Kayaking Down Waterfall
Apr 21st, 2012 at 4:00PM:
Kayaking is an activity I find to be largely leisurely. I might once in a while push myself a little harder than usual while kayaking. I might even break a sweat. But I certainly don't ever kayak down a waterfall. Perhaps I'd try it if I felt mostly safe, but what these guys are doing in the above video doesn't strike me as remotely "safe" – although I'm sure they're taking all kinds of ...
Find hotel deals with new booking site Guestmob
Mar 22nd, 2012 at 2:00PM: The Internet has brought us many ways to research and book hotels at prices much lower than the hotels' published rate. Aggregate sites like Kayak and Orbitz give you the best available rate (BAR) without pre-payment on a specific hotel, while "opaque" sites like Priceline and Hotwire allow you to bid for a room below BAR but the actual property remains hidden until after you book and the purchase ...Travel Smarter 2012: Use your mobile apps better
Mar 14th, 2012 at 9:00AM:
It should come as no surprise that owning a smartphone in 2012 is a traveler's perfect tool to better explore, organize and record their travels. And by now, there are literally thousands of app roundups out there to help lead you to the good ones. But this isn't another one of those roundups. Instead, today Gadling is taking a closer look at how to use your existing apps - the ones you ...Video: Glacier collapses into ocean, kayakers and penguins flee
Feb 28th, 2012 at 5:00PM:
Glacier Collapses Into Ocean - Watch More Funny Videos
Imagine this: You're one of the lucky ones who have embarked on a trip to the Antarctic and are exploring the waters around a glacier on a kayak. As you peacefully glide through the waters, you can't help but think that life is pretty much awesome. Suddenly, a huge chunk of the glacier breaks off and falls into the ocean. You watch, ...
Kayak drops Blackberry support in favor of iPhone and Android
Feb 8th, 2012 at 1:00PM:
If we didn't already think the death knell for Blackberry had begun, here's yet another sign that the once leading phone platform, at least where it comes to consumer travel apps, is well on its way to becoming outdated.
Kayak has revealed that it dropped support for its BlackBerry app, NextWeb reported.
"When we started KAYAK in 2004, we issued BlackBerries to the entire engineering ...Superbowl 2012 travel trends
Jan 30th, 2012 at 3:00PM:
For football fans, next weekend is the penultimate match up between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. What does that mean for travelers? Stay the heck away from Indianapolis!
Kayak just released data showing that searches from New England to Indianapolis saw an increase of 28 times the average immediately following the Pats/Ravens game. New York Giants fans accounted for a ...Valentine's Day is coming - where are people traveling?
Jan 27th, 2012 at 1:00PM:
Most holidays see a spike in travel - particularly those that involve long weekends. But what happens on the romantic holiday of the year, which, in 2012, just so happens to fall on a Tuesday? Sure, card sales, flowers, chocolate and the prix fixe menu at The Melting Pot will go up in price, but will travel increase?
Kayak sourced the top five most romantic destinations based on both a) ...Video: Epic kayaking crashes
Dec 30th, 2011 at 8:00AM: Kayaking can be a challenging and dangerous sport, particularly when the water is running fast and wild. The video below hammers that point home with a compilation of some of the craziest and downright scary crashes that you're ever likely to see on the water. Everything from broken paddles to backward drops over big waterfalls are on display, which makes for an exciting video but will leave you ...
Chinese kayak race turns violent
Oct 30th, 2011 at 9:00AM: A kayak race in Nanchang, located in the Chinese province of Jiangxi, turned violent last week when two teams came to blows while still out on the water. The brawl broke out when one team intentionally rammed its boat into the other, causing both squads to start swinging their paddles at one another.
The fight took place during the four-man, 2000 meter finals in the Chinese City Games, when the ...Video: Kayaker has rare encounter with a blue whale
Oct 19th, 2011 at 10:00AM: Stretching for over 90 feet in length, and weighing more than 180 metric tons, the blue whale is, to the best of our knowledge, the largest animal that has ever lived. The creatures were hunted to near extinction in the early part of the 20th century, but appear to be making a comeback now.
A kayaker at Redondo Beach, California recently had the rare opportunity to see one of these magnificent ...
Photo of the day: Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Lake Linden
Mar 30th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is a favorite place of mine. Desolate and beautiful, the U.P. is an ideal getaway destination. The coastline of Michigan's U.P. has a certain kind of shine--they kind that makes me want to build a cabin and never leave... except during the winters.
Featured above are 3 kayaking friends using a sail rig on their kayak. Launching off from a clean sandy beach, this ...Aleksander Doba successfully sea kayaks across the Atlantic
Mar 20th, 2011 at 5:00PM: An obscure Pole named Aleksander Doba has pulled off a somewhat obscure first: Sea kayaking across the breadth of the Atlantic Ocean in 98 days, 23 hours, 42 minutes, the longest open ocean kayaking adventure ever.
Leaving quietly from Dakar on October 26 and spending much of the first two months fighting into relentless winds and currents which kept pushing him north, it seemed – if you ...Kayak guide missing, presumed dead after crocodile attack
Dec 10th, 2010 at 9:00AM: South African river guide Hendrik Coetzee is missing, and presumed dead, after he was attacked by a crocodile while paddling a remote river in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday. The experienced guide, who has led expeditions all across Africa, was taking a team of kayakers down the Lukuga River at the time.
Coetzee, along with American paddlers Ben Stookesberry and Chris Korbulic, has ...Explore the Galapagos Islands on a stand-up paddle board
Dec 4th, 2010 at 8:00AM: The Galapagos Islands have been inspiring adventurous travelers almost from the very moment that Charles Darwin first stepped ashore back in 1835. Upon his arrival, the famous naturalist discovered an array of unique wildlife there, which inspired him to write The Origin of Species and formulate his Theory of Evolution. Modern travelers continue to visit the Galapagos hoping to catch a glimpse of ...Google acquires ITA: the search for bargain airline deals is about to get even easier
Jul 2nd, 2010 at 11:30AM: You're an avid traveler, right? Sure, why else would you be reading this? Chances are that you've spent some quality time at either Kayak, Airfare Watchdog, Bing Travel or one of the many other niche ticketing sites in search of deals over the past few months. To that end, you've probably spent next to no time at Google searching for the same thing. But the obvious question is this: "why not?"
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