This Week’s  Tips, Trips and Traps: Feeding the Chicks Feeding the Chickens From the super savvy family travel people at Takingthekids.com, come fun suggestions about family vacations this summer. What caught our attention is the Farm Holiday where kids get to feed the chickens, pluck carrots, pick berries and get to connect ...

Clobbering the Klout Score Imagine this scenario. You’re boarding your flight, and an announcement is made that there are three free upgrades to First Class. Free. For those whose Klout scores are 50 or higher. Or you complain to a company about some defect in their product, and you never get an ...

When Women Travel Solo Many women  want to travel alone, or with other women,  and not a guy... a fact most men find very difficult to accept. And while we think there are too many movies and books that give us too many images of women as helpless victims, the truth is ...

This Week's Travel Tips, Trips and Traps Flash Sales Change Travel Think about it, The Washington Post, asks, do you really want to go to the Shady Hill Inn in Maine because you’ve always wanted to go there? Or do you want to go there because Sniqueaway.com has a sudden flash offer, and ...

Saying “I Love You” at 35,000 Feet-From  Seat 7B Why Not? Flight attendants are not inherently anti-romantic or anti-social, they’re just brainwashed when it comes to using cell phones in the air. “Please switch off all mobile phones as they can interfere with the aircraft’s rafts navigation system,” is the flight attendant’s ...

Tired of Traveling With Ugly People? No, this doesn’t come from us, but from someone who Tweeted about a new travel-dating site called, Misstravel.com It’s pretty much a travel dating site...with plenty of innuendo. The explanatory video asks are you attractive, love to travel, but don’t have the money? It then explains that there ...

This Week’s Travel Tips, Trip and Traps Top Ten Things Airlines Don't Tell You Do pilots and flight attendants have relationships in the air? What do pilots do when they have to take a pee? What goes on in that sacred space, the cockpit? Away.com thinks you’d like to know, and we would. So ...

Travel Tips, Trips and Traps: Update In Travel, It’s Mobile That’s Seeing All The Growth Compared to overall online retail sales, online growth for travel is slow, indicating maturity in the market. However, the US mobile travel market is growing more quickly, and the number of mobile users booking travel on their ...

The Brave, The Bold and The Travel Brands Americans  Love No, price isn’t everything in travel. It counts for a great deal in making travel decisions, but those merchants of “low, low prices” are missing the point. What seems to drive travel choices is the ability for the traveler to connect with ...

For those that follow the travel industry, Travel Weekly is recognized as the publication that covers travel for travel professionals. So. we're pretty proud to say that Travel Weekly has picked New Media Travel to add to its distinguished Blog Roll, where we keep company with the BBC, Arthur Frommer, Bill ...