May 14, 2009

Be prepared when traveling

As a traveler who really loves to travel within the US, I am quite aware of the fact that traveling by car is by far the best option for someone willing to take the most out of every destination that is chosen. In fact, cars will give you the needed freedom to go to anywhere you may want to…

Still, traveling to destinations like Alaska or Texas without the best auto ac solution for your own car is a major mistake that you must avoid at all costs. Personally, I believe that air conditioning really plays a very important role when we decide to travel to destinations where temperature seems to be a little inconsistent and unpredictable. Moreover, if you don’t buy a new air conditioning compressor, when your actual one starts to malfunction, just like I recently did when I bought my new Mitsubishi ac compressor, then you will be facing a major menace when you travel to destinations where the summer or winter may surprise you.

So, would you like to buy some new auto parts just like auto ac parts? If that’s the case, then you definitely need to take some of your time and have a look at the website above!

Could the current price cuts in travel agencies be permanent?


While the economy is still far from showing any signs of full recovery and better prospects for the future, the truth is that most Americans won't be traveling next summer as they used to do in the past. As a consequence of this fact, travel agencies are offering us the best prices ever, but could this be permanent? Below is another msnbc.com article where you will be able to discover the answer:

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CHICAGO - U.S. online travel agencies, hungry for business in an economic recession, may extend or make permanent the booking fee cuts and waivers they implemented this year on a promotional basis.

The companies like Orbitz Worldwide and Expedia Inc suspended or reduced some of their booking fees recently to spur demand during the peak summer travel season.

The moves, which lag Priceline.com's airline booking fee waiver by nearly two years, were intended to be temporary. But experts think they could become permanent as the agencies compete for customers. Industry leaders have hinted the same.

"The combination of measures that we've taken ... certainly give us the flexibility to sustain the actions if we choose to do so," Orbitz Chief Executive Barney Harford told Reuters last week, referring to cost cutting and revenue-generating steps.

Orbitz, Expedia and Travelocity waived airline booking fees as part of promotions that extend through May. Orbitz and Expedia also temporarily cut hotel booking fees.

Priceline eliminated fees for published-price airline bookings in 2007 and reduced fees for published-price hotel bookings in 2008. The fees were unchanged for Priceline's name-your-own-price auction.

"Our competition has cut fees on a promotional basis this spring, and all are matching, resulting in a material hit to our competitors' profitability," Priceline CEO Jeffery Boyd said Monday on a conference call with analysts and reporters.

"If the fee reductions are made permanent by our competition, we expect a reduction over time in the domestic market share gains we have experienced," he said.

Travel businesses are wrestling with an economic recession that has drained both leisure and business travel budgets. Online travel agencies hope they can boost demand with sales, fee waivers and price guarantees.

Of the three publicly traded online travel agencies -- Expedia, Priceline and Orbitz -- only Priceline saw bookings growth in the second quarter.

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The importance of Payday Loans

Even though I spend a lot of time traveling all around the world, the truth is that I am quite aware of the current financial difficulties that many US families are facing at the moment now that the number of jobs being lost is still increasing.

Keeping this in mind, it is normal that we tend to require some Payday Loans in order to face our difficulties and get some financial relief. Moreover, if you are looking for the simplest No Fax Payday Loans which don’t require faxing any documents, then you definitely need to have a look at the website above and see with your own eyes how incredibly important may be the role played by the company above in your life.

Do you need extra motivation to travel in the summer?


With the current financial trends menacing an enourmous number of families in the US, the truth is that many families are not willing to travel in the summer as they claim that it could really menace their financial stability... Still, below you may find an extract of an original msnbc.com article which will definitely make you think twice:

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NEW YORK - Home, sweet home. It's not Bermuda or Barcelona, but you can make it feel like a new locale for your stay-in-the-neighborhood vacation nonetheless.

Whether you plan to spend your summer in your backyard or take a trip to a nearby town, it's important to treat it like any other vacation. Just because you're not heading to the airport doesn't mean you shouldn't research your itinerary or note it on your calendar.

"Make sure that you set aside the time and plan carefully," said Travelocity Senior Editor Genevieve Shaw Brown. "Treat it as if you're going to Paris. The way life tends to be, it could fall by the wayside if there isn't a set plan."

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Clarifying old myths

When you consider all what you know related to the most important things in live, do you honestly think that you know everything you need? Would you like to know something more about health, sex and life in general? Personally, I believe that learning is a continuous process which means that we must make a major effort to keep learning throughput our lives!

Keeping this in mind, I would say that there are still too many myths related to sex which need to be clarified on people’s minds as soon as possible. In fact, when I was a teenager, I used to hear a lot of inaccurate things related to sex which really made me contact my doctor expecting to see it all clarified. Fortunately, after talking with him, I could made up my mind and understand that I wouldn’t get pregnant if I was fully protected and I could also understand that having sex can really make us a lot healthier unlike people used to tell me before!

So, do you also have some questions that you would like to see answered? Would you like to know more about the advantages of having sex and how it all works? If that’s the case, then you definitely need to have a look at the website to which I have linked just above and where users are given the chance to discover a lot more about sex! Furthermore, everything you read is a fact, meaning that there is no space for misunderstandings which really makes that website extremely helpful for everyone.

Traveling over Memorial Day


Now that the Memorial Day is just by the corner, do you plan to travel during the days surronding it? If you do, then you will be just one more person to do it amongst the millions of other Americans doing exactly the same as you may read on the msnbc.com article below:

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NEW YORK - After a plunge in gas prices, Americans are expected to hit the highways in larger numbers this Memorial Day, giving the traditional start of the driving season a boost for the first time since 2005, AAA said Tuesday.

An estimated 32.4 million people — roughly 11 percent of the U.S. population — will take some kind of trip over the holiday, most of them on the road. That’s an increase of 1.5 percent from last year’s dismal travel season, when pump prices rose above $4 a gallon and millions of people stayed put.

On Tuesday, retail gas prices averaged $2.25 a gallon, about $1.47 a gallon cheaper than a year ago, according to auto club AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. Prices have increased 17 cents a gallon in the last week, but experts believe we are near a peak for the year.

Travel researcher Ken McGill used a combination of surveys and economic models to make AAA’s forecast. Many respondents told McGill that they were lured by hotel discounts and cheaper gas.

It also appears that many Americans have been suffering from an extended case of cabin fever, McGill said. Because of high gas prices and the souring economy, many people have stayed home during the past few years.

“There’s a bit of pent-up demand out there,” he said.

Still, McGill said he expects the recession will leave the tourism industry with a particularly miserable summer.

From April to September, Americans are expected to take 20 million fewer trips compared with last year and spend $43 billion less on everything from gasoline to plane tickets to hotel rooms, according to a separate forecast McGill completed in February.

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