Looking for a post?
Travel
New in Travel
Business Travel
Family Travel
Road Warrior
Travel Tips
Latest Articles
American Airlines Adds Wifi to Its Entire Domestic Fleet
American Airlines is making a big change and customers are sure to reap the benefits. The carrier has rolled out satellite-based broadband and wifi to its entire mainline narrow-body fleet and now flyers will have the option to check emails, shop online, and watch...
8 Things Your Travel Insurance Will and Will Not Cover
Travel insurance isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Often people think it’s complete coverage for yourself, your family, and your trip, but it's usually not. The best way to know what you're getting is to read the fine print and talk to your travel insurance agent. Take...
Robert & Mary Carey Spotlight: Des Moines, IA
As our "Destination Spotlight" series moves along, we recently featured Des Moines, Iowa on our nationally syndicated radio show and for good reason. Our time in Des Moines is always unique but some things we can consistently count on are meeting wonderful people,...
Business Travel
Travel Etiquette: Difficult Issues Need to be Handled Delicately
Some people view travel as a solitary experience. They don't make eye contact while going through security or on the way to their terminal. They're sure to try to find a seat in the gate area with an empty one beside it, and they queue up without comment when it’s...
Getting the Cheapest Flights Without Sacrificing Comfort
Business travelers often consider the cost of airfare when determining the ROI of their business trips (and if you don't, you should, especially for entrepreneurs and executives whose travel costs come out of their regular budgets). You can find less expensive flights...
Ways to Avoid Lines When You Travel
Unless you've already been authorized for PreCheck, you're not going to be able to avoid the TSA security lines. But there are things you can do when you're getting ready to travel and things you can do once you get where you're going that can help you avoid lines...
Family Travel
Biggest Mistakes People Make When Traveling
A recent article in Yahoo travel about the mistakes that travelers tend to make got us thinking about our own advice for travelers. One tip we make over and over is not having cash in hand before we set out on our travels. Although we mostly recommend that travelers...
Bring This, Not That: Art Supplies for Kids
Do your kids drag their art supplies everywhere they go? Do you head over to Grandma's house with backpacks overflowing with pencils, pens, markers, scissors, and different types of paper? If so, you're probably excited that they're excited and that they're doing...
To Boost Safety, Cruise Lines Want to Be More Like Airlines
With a number of embarrassing, and very public, hits to cruise ship safety over the last several years, cruise lines are looking at the airline industry as a standard for safety. A recent article in Businessweek looked at how cruise lines are responding to three huge...
Road Warrior
Pop-Up Hotels, “Braincations” to Trend in 2013
Once a year or so, many of us select a location far from home and take a vacation for a long weekend or if we’re lucky, a week or more. For 2013, a new trend is emerging — experiential travel. More than just booking a room at a resort or staying in cabin on a lake,...
American Airlines Testing New Boarding Procedure
Have you noticed that at the airport, when a plane is preparing to board passengers, there’s usually a group of people who hover? You know what I mean — the travelers who pace back and forth by the airline desk, ready to jump into line as soon as their section is...
Christopher Penn’s 9 Amusing Travel Hacks
Christopher Penn is an expert in technology, marketing, social media, and how all three can work together to create better business opportunities for you. We're fans of his, and read his blog fairly regularly. Due to the nature of his job, Penn travels a lot, and...
Travel Tips
Packing Food for Air Travel
Are you trying to stay on track with that new diet you're on, but you have a business trip, and the thought of running the food court gauntlet without getting tripped up by some tempting food has you considering quitting? Do you have a dietary restriction that makes...
How Much Should You Tip at Hotels?
In this country, tipping is a combination of good manners and best practices. Whether you agree with it or not almost doesn't matter, because this is how the travel and service industries operate. You tip at restaurants, you tip your cab driver, you tip at hotels —...
Top Five Strategies for Business Travel Efficiency
Business travel is hard — hard on the body, hard on the mind — but making a few intelligent choices can make all the difference in terms of efficiency. To paraphrase the old saying about charity, "Good health starts at home." You can't be your best if you don't take...
When you choose Travelpro®, you know you’re getting a bag that is ready to handle anything you want to put it through.