7 Essential Vacation Travel Tips

I remember my first experience traveling on my own.  I am still cringing thinking about it.  It was Thanksgiving week and it was time for me to go home for the holidays.  I was in college and I thought I knew everything.  I crammed everything into two suitcases (even my dirty laundry) thinking that it would be easy to put them on the airplane....

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Out of Office: 10 Simple, Slightly Quirky Ways to Make Travel Less Irritating

This post is part of a series in which LinkedIn Influencers and members share their business travel advice and stories from life on the road. Read all the posts here. All of us are, by turns, scared, horrified, and saddened by any true travel or transportation disaster. Whether human, machine, or naturally occurring cause, it puts petty complaints in a far different...

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2015 Trend: Travel Brands Look to Instagram for the Influencer Bump

Hotel brands and destination marketing organizations once saw travel blogs and their reach social networks — especially Twitter — as the best new source of un-filtered insight into their hotel or destination. That didn’t turn out to be the boon everyone hoped. From SEO setbacks to viral hashtags that never translated into boots on the round, the price of bringing a gaggle...

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How to Get Your Own Oscars Dream Trip for Pennies on the Dollar

When Academy Award nominees say that just being nominated for an Oscar is a reward in itself, they’re not just spouting clichés. Even if they don’t get to walk onstage and give a long speech that only ends when the music begins, they still win big. All Oscar nominees get a gift bag courtesy of Distinctive Assets. And by gift bag, we’re not talking about complimentary...

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Taxi aggregators like Uber and Olacabs need to be regulated, says Nitin Gadkari

NEW DELHI: Taxi booking apps like Uber and Olacabs Tags: (Taxi booking apps like Uber…) need to be regulated and brought under the Motor Vehicles Act, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said today. "Taxi booking service providers through mobile apps also come under transportation business and they should be governed by the laws under Motor Vehicles Act," the Road,...

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Drivers learn lesson, start own prepaid taxi service

Panaji: Painted in the conventional colours of a desi taxi, yellow and black, a 10-foot tall booth stands opposite Maruti temple at the Kadamba city bus stand. The highlight of this booth is the initiative by a bunch of taxi drivers whose intention is to give people a uniformly-priced taxi service. Commuters, both domestic and tourists, will no longer have to indulge in endless negotiations with private cab and auto rickshaw drivers at the...

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Delhi govt grants license to Chennai-based cab service; Uber, Ola await

Delhi government on Saturday granted the licence to a Chennai-based cab service provider to run radio taxis for five years in the national capital. However, the decision on extending such permits to the US-based firm Uber, Taxi For Sure, and Ola Cabs is yet to be taken by the government. According to a transport department official, NTL Call Taxi Pvt. Ltd. has become...

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A Monumental Effort: World Heritage Day Exclusive

Yahoo Lifestyle/Ratish Nanda - The Aga Khan Trust for Culture project has ensured conservation works benefit local communities around the Nizamuddin Renewal Initiative. Editor's Note: Is heritage only about conserving structures? The etymology of the word structure implies parts that make up the whole. People who live around these monuments have needs...

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Hindu temple vandalised in US, hate message spray-painted on wall

The incident of religious intolerance has sent shock waves through the Indian-American community, prompting police to begin investigation. WASHINGTON: In an alarming incident of yet another case of intolerance in the United States, a Hindu temple was vandalised in Washington state and hate messages were sprayed on the temple walls, sending shock waves through the Indian-American community in the area, a Press Trust of India report said.  The...

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Dropping off a rental car after hours can lead to an expensive surprise

  Budget Rent a Car recently quoted Roy Bonney a $96 rate for a one-day rental from Norfolk to Washington. But it sent him a bill for $3,374.The reason? A tire on Bonney's car went flat only a few hours before his flight back home to Alaska, while he was parked at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, in D.C. There was no spare, so he had to call Budget Roadside Assistance...

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How to Start a Travel Blog and Earn Money in 6 months

This article is inspired by a lot of our readers and travel coaching clients who have been asking us about how we started Two Monkeys Travel last May 2014 and grow it from there…We don’t claim to be experts and we know that we have a long way to go, but we’ve come a long way in a short time. This is the first time we have ever written a travel blog and we are learning...

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