Moscow Subway Station Lets Passengers Pay Fare In Squats – Forbes.com
The Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia are still nearly three months away, but the competition is already heating up in one Moscow subway station. Passengers can vie to pay their fare in exercise....
View ArticleTake Your Brazil Trip Now. It’s About To Get Expensive. – Forbes
Centro do Rio de Janeiro (Photo credit: Rodrigo_Soldon) American Express Global Business Travel released its Global Business Travel Forecast 2013today, and vice president Hervé Sedky sees “prices...
View ArticleAmsterdam To Weed Smokers: Party On – Forbes
Getty Images via @daylife Pot smokers, you can chill now. Amsterdam has been given a reprieve from the Netherlands’ ban on foreigners purchasing marijuana and hashish in its famous “coffeeshops.” Read...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines And US Airways Merge: Passengers, Watch Out. – Forbes.com
The airline industry’s worst kept secret is finally out: today American Airlines and US Airways formally announced plans to merge into the world’s largest airline, under the name American Airlines....
View ArticleTSA Pre-Check Now Speeds International Travelers Through Airport Security –...
The average amount of time, in minutes, it takes me to get through security using TSA Pre-Check. (Photo credit: Andrew Bender) About the best news – OK, about the only good news – for air travelers in...
View ArticleBangkok Tops The World’s 10 Most Visited Cities – Forbes.com
Quick: what’s the world’s most visited city? London? New York? Try Bangkok. The Thai capital tops this year’s Global Destination Cities Index just published by MasterCard, the first Asian city to do...
View ArticleTo Combat Rude Behavior, Paris Metro Publishes Manners Guide – Forbes
France may have been voted the world’s rudest nation for travelers, but at least one organization is trying to fix that. RATP, which operates the Paris Metro (subway to us Yanks), has just published...
View ArticleOuch! Needles Found In Sandwiches On Delta Flights – Forbes.com
“Spike it,” took on a whole new meaning for passengers on Delta Airlines flights out of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, who found needles in their sandwiches. The sandwiches, destined for business class...
View ArticleA Fair For Keeps – SilverKris (Singapore Airlines)
Yeosu EXPO, Korea (Photo credit: TomEats) As the 2012 Expo in Yeosu, South Korea, winds down this month, the organizers are planning to preserve some of the structures built for the event, reports...
View ArticleLiverpool Residents To Beatles Tourists: ‘Get Back’– Forbes
The Beatles wave to fans after arriving at Kennedy Airport. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Call it the reverse British Invasion. Call it payback. Call it what you will. Nearly 50 years after the Beatles...
View ArticleThe World’s Top 10 Cities For Street Food – Forbes
Istanbul, Turkey. Photo courtesy of Turkish Tourist Office NYC VirtualTourist.com surveyed its members about their favorite street food experiences worldwide. From the docks of Belize to the markets of...
View ArticleWhere To Find Europe’s Best Deals This Fall – Forbes
Don’t look to the longtime standbys, where a steady stream of business travelers tends to keep hotel rates high year-round. Rather, Clem Bason, president of the Hotwire group, suggests cities he calls...
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