Archive for Category: "Travel Planning"
Wheelchair Accessible San Antonio: The River Walk & Beyond
Historic cities often pose unique challenges for accessible travel. Our accessible experts Barbara and Jim Twardowski travel to San Antonio to navigate the Alamo and beyond with Barabar’s electric wheelchair and report back on the city’s challenges and rewards. Lush green foliage and 300-year-old oak trees shade the meandering sidewalks and foot bridges that border [...]
Travel Tip: New Airline Routes
With summer travel season around the corner, the airlines are paying attention to where people want to go. So here’s what’s going on with the airline routes this season. Ever heard of Porter Airlines? Probably not. It’s a small, regional service in Canada. But it has great service and just launched a route between Toronto [...]
Top 5 Tips for Creating a Health Itinerary
Do you know how to make a health itinerary? There are a few things even the healthiest traveler should do before any trip. Health Expert Leslie Michelson, who is the chief executive officer of Michelson on Medicine and chairman and chief executive of Private Health Management, gives you a step-by-step guide for how to put [...]
Travel Tip: Summer Airfare is Going Up
It’s official, summer airfare is going up. It’s a seasonal issue that we see every year, but this year there are some other factors in place. Airfare has already risen three times this year, and it’s expected to jump another 3 percent this summer. The major contributor is decreased capacity. Couple that with increased demand [...]
Airplane Art: Nina Katchadourian’s Seat Assignment
In the past few weeks, you may have seen Nina Katchadourian’s work in your Facebook feed and paused to view her her Flemish-style self portraits. Her work might be the most famous thing to come out of an airplane bathroom, so we sent Ben Moroski to learn more about the artist and her inspiration. For [...]
Travel Detective Blog: What the Foiled Underwear Bomb Plot Means for Our Security
With the most recent bomb plot splashed across the headlines, it’s important to look beyond the facts and see what we can take away from this episode. Are we safer now than we were in 2009? Is airport security sufficient? Peter turns to his Travel Detective blog to parse the lessons of this incident. It [...]
Voluntourism: WWOOF & Volunteer Farming in the UK
This weekend Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio is coming to you from the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, Wales. This year we’ve highlighted volunteer work in the UK from summer community development in London and archaeology in Devon, so for our voluntourism spotlight this week we’re looking at agritourism and giving back through WWOOF. Check back [...]
Spirit Air’s PR Scandal and the Solution to Nonrefundable Tickets
Earlier this month, Spirit Airlines initially refused to refund a $197 ticket to a dying veteran. After an explosive backlash, chairman Ben Baldanza issued a statement apologizing for his insensitivity and announcing that he would personally refund the money to the veteran and the airline would make a $5,000 donation to Wounded Warrior Project. Peter [...]
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