Photo of the Moment: Nightfall in Yellowknife, Canada

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9 Tips for Finding the Perfect Travel Souvenir

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Isabel Eva Bohrer reveals 9 tips to help you navigate the tricky path towards finding the perfect travel souvenir.

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Airport Lounges: How To Access An Oasis On Your Next Trip

A stop in an airport lounge can take the edge off a long, stressful trip. But first, you need to get in. Here's how.



from Travel Feedly http://www.ibtimes.com/airport-lounges-how-access-oasis-your-next-trip-1690194

Better decisions through travel big data – a DMO story

Big data is a fashionable concept and Europe is just at the beginning of this phenomenon, could travel data be the next ...



from Tnooz http://www.tnooz.com/article/travel-big-data-andalucia-dmo/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=better-decisions-travel-big-data-destination-experience

United Extending Waiver of Revenue Requirement for Elite Status if You Spend on Their Credit Card

In June 2013 United announced that earning elite status would require minimum spending on tickets. This followed almost dead-on what Delta had announced. Status in 2015 would require not just miles flown in 2014, but a minimum amount of spending for each status level as well. Silver: $2500 minimum qualifying revenue Gold: $5000 minimum qualifying […]

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14 odd facts about Australia

With such a long history, there’s an encyclopedic amount of information about Australia. Check out these 14 things you might not know and see for yourself.



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Travel bookings by mobile on the rise in share and value

Some interesting findings in a report on the increased use of mobile devices for planning and buying travel from performance advertising company ...



from Tnooz http://www.tnooz.com/article/criteo-mobile-travel-flash-report/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=criteo-mobile

What it takes to be a pro photog

An interview with renowned surf photographer and Matador Ambassador Chris Burkard on how he captures such mind-blowing work.



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Seeing the World in a Weekend – Machu Picchu, Peru

The long extended Labor Day weekend was the perfect window for a trip to Machu Picchu, especially with the great airfares that surfaced over the summer. We were lucky to take advantage, secure that bucket-list adventure and head off to Peru to explore the sacred Inca site. The Logistics Planning a trip to Machu Picchu […]



from Frugal Travel Guy http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2014/09/seeing-the-world-in-a-weekend-machu-picchu-peru.html

Milton Keynes Peace Pagoda in Milton Keynes , United Kingdom

Although a somewhat unlikely location in the English of Willen Lake North in Milton Keynes, is the location of the first peace pagoda to be built in the Western world.

A peace pagoda is a Buddhist monument built as a symbol of world peace, and is meant to promote unity among all the peoples of the world regardless of race, creed, or border. Peace pagodas have been built all across Asia, often in places that seem to need the most healing such as the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki where American atomic bombs took the lives of more than 150,000 people at the end of World War II. There are now more than 80 peace pagodas across Europe, Asia, and the United States, but the first of the Western temples was built in the town of Milton Keynes in England.

The peace pagoda at Willen Lake was completed in September 1980, with an inauguration ceremony that was attended by religious leaders and world peace activists from across the globe. The ceremony was lead by Nichidatsu Fujii, founder and teacher of the Order of Nipponzan Myohoji, the Buddhist sect that built the structure near to their temple headquarters.

Surrounding both the temple and the peace pagoda are 1,000 cedar and cherry trees, planted in remembrance of all victims of all wars. At the top of the hill between the pagoda and the temple stands the One World Tree which has prayers, messages of hope and small ornaments attached to it as memorials for loved ones lost.

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Farming in Deep Southern China

What is The Arcanum to Trey and Pete? Here’s a new video we just released! Textures Tutorial If you pop over to the Stuck In Customs Store you’ll see the Textures Tutorial. This is how I accomplished today’s photo. Actually, that Textures Tutorial is the FIRST video tutorial I ever made here for the site. […]



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What happened to my travel industry – and how do I get it back?

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Get Tickets to Sold Out Frequent Traveler University Events

Frequent Traveler University in San Diego next March, which I posted about this morning, sold out in under 3 hours. But that doesn’t mean you can’t go. Here’s the Milepoint thread for FTU Advanced in San Diego. There are a handful of tickets held back, I’m told, and they’re right here. There are no doubt […]

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Launching a Boat Off a White Sand Beach in Anguilla

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Redeem US Airways Miles On Japan Airlines More Than 90 Days Out?

US Airways Dividend Miles has been adding several footnotes to their award chart lately, some of which make sense, and some of which don't. They're also not always consistently enforced, so that only makes them more complicated to some.

One of the recent updates which left me puzzled was the following footnote on US Airways' award chart:

"Awards booked on Japan Airlines are valid for the next 90 days starting from the following day of the Award Ticket issuance. Reservations for domestic JAL Award Flights within Japan must be made no earlier than 0930 Japan time, two months prior to travel."

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