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When thinking about how to reduce our individual carbon footprints, one of the simplest ways to cut back on emissions is to fly less often. But for those who want to see the world, there are ways to make trips more sustainable, including where you go, what you pack, and how you get there. From New York Times Travel, here is a guide to leaving a lighter travel footprint in 2020.
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In the Race for Cheap Airfare, It’s You vs. the Machine Travel providers now use software to re-price their offerings, sometimes dozens of times a day, putting travelers at a big disadvantage. This New York Times article lays out how travel companies are using AI to maximize revenue and how you can increase your odds of getting a decent price on flights and hotels.
Reader Recommendation: Busbud is a website and an app that provides travelers instant access to the most extensive global network of city-to-city buses using their bus-booking platform. You can search, compare, and buy tickets from 3,900+ bus companies in 21,000+ cities connected by 2,300,000+ bus routes across 80+ countries. Check out bus prices and schedules for your next trip on the Busbud site.
This is How Vacation Rental Pros Find a Better Place Vacation rental owners sometimes lie. They post descriptions of their property filled with hyperbole and staged photos that use wide-angle lenses to make their homes look enormous. So how do the vacation rental pros find a better place? Consumer Advocate Christopher Elliott shares
tips for finding the best vacation rentals.
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Celestyal Cruises
Winners of the 2019 Solo Travel Award for Ocean Cruises!
Celestyal Cruises is the only home-porting cruise operator in Greece and the preeminent cruise line serving the Greek Islands and East Mediterranean.
The company operates four mid-sized vessels that provide genuine and highly personalized services. Every 3, 4, or 7-day cruise focuses on true cultural immersion, offering authentic, lifetime experiences both onboard and onshore. Celestyal Cruises is committed to the solo travel market by consistently offering ongoing campaigns with ‘No Single Supplements & Own Stateroom' on the majority of their 3, 4, and 7-day sailings, in addition to their generous standard 30% solo traveler supplement
which is 70% less than the majority of cruise lines. To support this commitment, they offered ‘No Single Supplement' on all 12 Cuba departures in 2018. With their all-inclusive cruises, the lost onboard revenue issue that drives the excessively high supplements on major cruise lines does not factor.
DESTINATIONS
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