This Week in Travel #32 – This Week in Travel Embraces Life

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This Week’s Guest: Julie Schwietert of the Matador Network. Julie is a bilingual writer and editor who’s always interested in stories about overlooked people and places–especially when they’re in Latin America. She is a contributing writer to Fodor’s Puerto Rico and Fodor’s Caribbean, and is a writer and the managing editor of MatadorNetwork, the world’s largest online travel magazine.

News Items this Week

• Google Testing Hotel Prices in Google Maps
• Hotel managers monitor online critiques to improve service
• Travelocity Secret Hotels
• UpTake heads down ultimate travel content aggregation route
• Uptake Travel Gems
• Lindsay Lohan banned from India ?
• Matador U

Picks of the Week

• Gary – WP-Super Cache
• Jen – Life, Don George’s Travel Writing (How to) by Lonely Planet
• Chris – Passport Day, March 28, 2010
• Julie – Flyebaby