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Top tips for happy holiday travel with kids

This is the season of get-togethers and holiday travels.  While it’s a joyous time of year, the hustle and bustle of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s can create anxiety for children.  Make your visits with family and friends, or your holiday vacation getaway, enjoyable for everybody  with just a little preparation.

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Five Top Travel Apps for Safe Holiday Road Trips

The AAA estimates more than 92 million Americans will be on the road during the holiday period between December 23rd and January 2nd, 3.1% more than last year. There is a mind-boggling selection of iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry apps to download that will help make your driving and travel less stressful and perhaps [...]

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Safe Driving Tips for the Holidays

Photo courtesy CarCrashes.com

We’re all in a hurry at the holidays. But driving fast is not the answer, and it most certainly is not safe driving. Speed-related deaths kill approximately 13,500 Americans each year, according to the Governor’s Highway Safety Association.  And thousands more drivers, passengers and pedestrians are injured by speeding.

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Allergy-Free Hotel Rooms

Hotels offer hypo-allergenic rooms for allergy sufferers

There are 50 million allergy sufferers in the United States who have problems going on vacation because of the allergy aggravators in hotels,  from the cleaning supplies used to the feathers inside the bed pillows.  Hotel chains have taken notice, and are offering allergy-free rooms for [...]

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How the Travel Industry Supports U.S. Military Veterans

Travel industry supports U.S. military with free flights and other discounts

On Veterans Day, let’s salute our active and retired U.S. military personnel.  Let’s also salute the travel industry for the ways it supports American soldiers, sailors and Marines.  The travel industry gets lots of headlines for cruise ships that have to be [...]

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Where to Buy Christmas Ornaments Made in America

U.S. ornament company sells only Made in America Christmas ornaments

We all know what the outsourcing of office jobs and manufacturing has done to the US economy.  Maryland-based A Christmas Ornament Company is trying to do something about it by selling only American-made products this holiday season.

A recent Gallup Poll found that [...]

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