Expedia surveyed 4,000 hotel proprietors internationally asking them who they would prefer to stay in their hotels. Japanese, who were voted by hoteliers as the world’s best tourists in a global travel [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Marilyn about her recent trip to Madagascar. Marilyn grew up in this remote and exotic destination and finally had a chance to show her adopted homeland to [...]

Near Venice’s St Mark’s square I once overheard an american tourist complain that everywhere they went in Europe there were crowds. This same tourist was wearing a Globus tour company name tag [...]

In honor of the death of comedian George Carlin yesterday, here is a bit of his comedy routine on the absurdity of airline travel and airplane announcements. Not safe for work… it [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Anthony Sandberg from the OCSC about the sport of sailing, sailing vacations and sailing in the Aegean. Learn about private beaches, picturesque fishing villages and how you [...]

These are desperate days for the airline industry so we can probably understand that when readers of two Philadelphia newspapers read last week that a new airline would charge by the pound [...]

If you have traveled to a foreign country, especially one where it is not healthy to drink the water you may have encountered the common traveler’s ailment known by names such as [...]

I have not yet read Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Mills but I like the idea of this novel which is written in the form of a complain letter to American Airlines. [...]

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Here is is a video tour I shot of Holland America’s MS Volendam. I talked more about this particular ship on Episode 113 of the Amateur Traveler – Theme Cruise to Panama [...]