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Contactless Payment Options Becoming the Norm for Travelers
In recent years, contactless payment options have made their way into stores and businesses around the world. Whether it's tapping your chip-enabled credit card on a payment machine or even tapping your phone and using Apple Pay or Google Pay, the payment landscape is...
Do You Need an RFID Wallet?
Technology can be a wonderful thing. You can snap photos on your phone and share them with family half a world away. You can wave your phone at a credit card machine and make a payment. Or if you'd rather, you can even just tap your credit card on that same machine...
Robert & Mary Carey Travel Spotlight: Branson, MO
Summer 2020 travel is certainly different then what we’ve all been accustomed to in the past — but the pandemic doesn’t mean you still can’t responsibly enjoy fun destinations and still stay safe. Branson, Missouri is one of those places that we encourage you to...
Business Travel
Which is Better for Air Travel, Aisle or Window? Your Choice Says a Lot About You
The debate has raged since the dawn of air travel: Which is better, the window seat or the aisle seat? A few years ago, Expedia polled their readers to find the majority preference. The results may surprise you. Fifty-five percent of those surveyed said they prefer...
The Benefits of Bleisure Travel for Business Travelers
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." That proverb has a lesser-known second phrase which dates back to 1825: "All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy." With so many people spending significant amounts of time away from home on business, family...
Don’t Believe These Business Travel Room Service Myths
Unless you're a seasoned traveler, you may think twice when the urge for a late-night snack or breakfast in bed strikes while you're overnighting at a hotel. We're here to debunk a few myths about this perk. Room service prices are identical to the price of the same...
Family Travel
What to Do in an Emergency While You’re Traveling
When Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world's busiest airport, experienced a catastrophic power failure due to a fire this past December, 30,000 people were affected. If you were stranded somewhere due to a local emergency or natural disaster, do you have...
Top Five Little-Known Travel Apps for Business Travelers
When a traveler who has logged 2 million air miles and stayed 1,000 nights in a hotel offers his top five travel apps, you listen. Thanks to Maurice Freedman for sharing his "Swiss Army Knife suite of travel apps" to help all of us amateurs experience travel like a...
Five Ways to Stay Healthy While Traveling
Those who travel regularly know that maintaining their routines helps them be at their best. If you're an infrequent traveler, here are the top five things you need to do while on your business trip to come home as healthy as you left. Eat right. When we're away from...
Road Warrior
5 Tourist Scams to Avoid: Money Edition
For the last couple of blog posts, we've been discussing different travel scams and petty crimes found on a Lifehack.org infographic on common travel scams. In our last two posts, we've discussed pickpockets and con artists. Now let's look at how people can take your...
5 Tourist Scams to Avoid: Pickpocketing Edition
If you've ever traveled, especially overseas, you may have run into a variety of scams and cons. In our last post, we talked about different, mostly harmless, scams you may encounter on a trip. This time, thanks to a Lifehack.org infographic on common travel scams,...
5 Tourist Scams to Avoid: Payment for Service Edition
People all around the world have come up with some clever ways to con tourists. Tourists are often a target due to having little knowledge of an area, the culture, and the currency. Because of this locals have created interesting ways to make you pay for something you...
Travel Tips
How to Protect Yourself When Using Money Transfer Apps
The ability to transfer money through mobile apps is growing in popularity, especially as more new services are created to make it possible. There are two popular apps that people are turning to, which means there's also a growing opportunity for fraud and theft....
Delta and Lyft Have Combined to Earn Delta Points on Lyft Rides
If you're a travel mileage junkie on the lookout for a new way to earn Delta miles, hitch a ride with Lyft. Delta Airlines recently announced a partnership with the ride sharing company that lets travelers earn miles just by using the service. Members can earn miles...
More Americans are Using Their Smartphones to Book Their Travel
It's a major shift for travelers and travel agents, whether you're a business traveler or a vacationer: we Americans are using our smartphones more and more to manage all aspects of our travel. A recent Travel Market Report...
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