If you still haven’t quite figured out how to spend your summer vacation but are looking to try something a little different, adventure travel might be just the ticket. Adventure travel – a type of tourism that involves exploration or travel with perceived or actual risk – is a path to exploring new parts of the world and getting your…
Some people are so afraid of flying, they won’t even consider traveling or stepping foot in an airport, let alone get on a plane. But there are even more people who will fly to travel, but experience intense stress and anxiety during a flight. Often times, people who experience this stress and anxiety will turn to alcohol and/or prescriptions to…
With the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro coming up soon, we’re now in the midst of what is becoming a biannual tradition of whether or not going to the Games is a good idea – is it safe? Will it be fun, or a logistical nightmare? Does the host country have its act together? If you’re unsure about…
When you’re traveling and check into a hotel, sometimes it’s exciting and luxurious. Sometimes it’s rather perfunctory – not much more than a bed for a few hours. And sometimes, it’s completely unmemorable and your room looks exactly like the room you stayed in three months ago halfway around the world – you can’t even tell the difference. But it…
So, Greece has voted no on austerity, might “Grexit” the Eurozone, and is in the midst of a game of high stakes poker over the future of Europe. Forget the politics of what’s right and what might happen – the question we’re here to answer is whether you should keep your vacation plans for Greece. For close to a generation,…
Sometimes you’re on a plane and you feel like you desperately need to call someone. We’ve become so attached to our devices that to be deprived of using them for a couple hours seems like an outlandish inconvenience. And when you’re on that plane and feeling disconnected, it can be pretty stressful. But can you imagine what it would be…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report today that indicates the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is nearing a potentially devastating tipping point – the CDC projects that the number of cases in Sierra Leone and Liberia could explode to as many as 1.4 million by the end of January. We’ve warned travelers previously that trips to…
Generally speaking, when an outbreak of disease occurs, the media fans the flames of panic while officials try to keep people calm. And that has been the case in this year’s epidemic of Ebola. At least until today. Today, Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Tom Frieden told CNN that the Ebola epidemic is “spiraling out of control.” Frieden, who…
A heads up if you’re traveling to western Africa – the Ebola epidemic that has continued to grow for the last few months. Now, in an effort to get ahead of the spread of the deadly disease, 11 African nations are working together to stem the epidemic. As part of the plan, the World Health Organization is setting up a…
This is not a story we thought we’d be working on. Polio, the disease that ravaged children around the world in the mid-20th century, is making a comeback, and the World Health Organization is concerned. The WHO has declared that the sudden rejuvenation of the vaccine-preventable disease constitutes an international health emergency. Officials say three countries – Syria, Cameroon and…
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