Most parents today wouldn’t consider leaving the driveway without their toddlers being fastened securely into their car seats.

Yet when traveling by plane — hundreds of miles per hour faster, and thousands of feet in the air — many of those same parents have no problem holding their little ones — unbuckled — in their laps throughout the flight.

An estimated 4.5 million children under the age of two fly each year in the United States. At this time, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) does not require infants and toddlers to be restrained or secured on aircraft during takeoff, landing, and turbulence, but instead permits them to be held on an adult’s lap, free …

Most people associate a vacation to the Rocky Mountains in the winter with skiing and snowboarding. But what if you don’t ski?

How much time can you spend drinking Hot Apple Pies in the lodge waiting for your ski-fanatic friends and family to show up?

Well, before you decide to stay home altogether, we’ve got great news: there can be a lot more to your Colorado vacation than just going up and down a mountain.

The following are just some of your options…

TELLURIDE

Located about 335 miles from Denver, Telluride has steep terrains and is known as a skier’s heaven, particularly for experts. But did you know that the area off the beaten track offers a …

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No one knows international culture and business like Peter Greenberg. With more than 11 million miles of direct experience under his belt, his perspective on globalization, trade and cross-cultural marketing–as well as travel, tourism, and all industries that feed off of them–is unprecedented.

“The distances stay the same, but the world gets smaller every year … and it affects everybody and every business in enormous ways.”

Greenberg has

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January 20, 2007

It’s a new year and more Americans are traveling than anytime in the last seven years. I’m one of them. I also travel most of the other 51 weeks — almost 400,000 miles a year.

Unfortunately, the airline industry is the only one that stays in business by abusing its best customers. And now, much of the hotel industry is following suit. Service and hospitality are being replaced by bottom-line thinking — and the results are awful. For that reason, a few well-considered new year’s resolutions would be good for everyone involved.

The airlines should resolve to:

Abolish the asterisk. Stop insulting us by advertising a flight to …

Dear Peter,

My friend and I recently had a lovely time in Mazatlan, Mexico, once we finally arrived.

We had an absolutely terrible experience on Delta Airlines trying to get from Seattle to MZT.

We submitted a very long letter to Delta. We are wondering what you suggest we do differently on the next trip.

If you’re prone to taking a lot of short trips away from your beloved dog or cat, you may want to check out these new automatic pet feeders.

For about $30, the Viateck I-Pet Intelligent Pet Dish has four compartments that can be programmed to open at feeding times. You can also record 20 seconds of your voice calling Fluffy to dinner.

For just under $40, the Lentek 6-Day Automatic Pet Dish is designed to keep your pet fed for nearly a week.

And for a longer trip, Ergo’s Large Pet Autofeeder can hold up to 20 lbs. of food and will automatically dispense pre-set amounts.

Ergo promises their dispensing mechanism is pet-safe, even if Fido decides to stick his tongue up the food …