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Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 16 minutes ago • gadling.com
You have to hand it to Climber Sterling, a Danish low cost carrier. When they found out that their competitor, Norwegian Air Shuttle was launching a massive fare sale, instead of letting consumers go out and buy the dirt cheap tickets they scooped them all up.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 49 minutes ago • alafista.com
In some countries, its customary to stand on one side of the escalator and let others who are in a hurry to walk up/down the escalators. While its a common sight in Japan, it seems that the subway stations in Japan are rolling out new policies to ban people from walking on escalators.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 1 hours, 16 minutes ago • theprovince.com
If you plan well and have a little luck, you can see the world in Los Angeles. If not, all you’ll see is a world of traffic. More likely, you’ll experience some of both.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 1 hours, 49 minutes ago • miamiherald.com
There's a fire roaring in the fireplace and snow falling gently outside the snowflake-flecked double French doors of the terrace. City lights twinkle in the darkness, and the staccato of car horns and sirens from the street below is barely audible. More champagne anyone?
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 2 hours, 16 minutes ago • gadling.com
Next month, look for something new coming from kitchens across the Fairmont chain. Chefs at these upscale properties will be showing off their skills not only with seafood but the sustainable variety. So, when you cut into your fish of choice, you'll be experiencing both culinary and environmental bliss. Throughout April, Fairmont will be inviting guests in its dining rooms do donate merely $1 to the National Geographic Society to support ocean conservation and other sea wildlife initiatives.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 2 hours, 49 minutes ago • nileguide.com
Ready to take ‘adventure travel’ to a whole new level? Want to support the environment while still having an amazing vacation? Sick and tired of having no exciting travel stories to tell your friends when you get back home? If so, you should consider taking one of these ridiculously cool volunteer vacations for your next adventure.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 3 hours, 16 minutes ago • travel.latimes.com
One of Christendom’s most sacred relics, the Shroud of Turin, will be displayed to the public for the first time in a decade in Italy. The exhibition, at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin’s historic center, will run from April 10 to May 23, with Pope Benedict XVI making a special pilgrimage to see it on May 2.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 3 hours, 49 minutes ago • current.newsweek.com
It may be that—other than wanting six-weeks of vacation a year and aspiring to speak more than one language—there's no clearer sign of an un-American sissy than someone who's thrilled by high-speed trains. And if you're as big of a fan of trains as I am, the latest plans for high-speed trains probably make you drool.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 4 hours, 16 minutes ago • cnn.com
A key to experiencing Great Britain and Ireland smartly in 2010 is to embrace them not as "ye olde" destinations but as modern ones.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 4 hours, 49 minutes ago • matadortv.com
Two friends combine 7 days of driving and 4,300 photos for one unforgettable journey across America.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 5 hours, 16 minutes ago • guardian.co.uk
An old south London boozer gets a dramatic new lease of life as the chef behind the Eagle lands in Stockwell
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 5 hours, 49 minutes ago • timesonline.co.uk
How about a quickie? We’ve got a (dirty) dozen, from Paris to St Petersburg: 12 exotic, erotic escapes to put you in the mood
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 6 hours, 1 minutes ago • maxablog.com
The Tokyo episode of the first 13-show season of public television's travel series "Rudy Maxa's World" won a prestigious regional Emmy award last night in the category of "Arts/Entertainment feature" from the Upper Midwest chapter of the National Television Academy. 
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 6 hours, 16 minutes ago • sfgate.com
Walking beneath Gordian-knot tangles of drooping overhead wires, past apartment windows draped with laundry, I enter a 1920s building and wedge myself into a tiny elevator. Seconds later, I emerge into the hidden elegance of M on the Bund restaurant and its aptly named Glamour Bar. As I savor a Moroccan lunch, big yellow construction cranes hover on the horizon. From the lip of the restaurant's terrace, I watch as workers toil on a torn-up road running along the river's edge - the famous Bund.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 6 hours, 49 minutes ago • sfgate.com
I went because: To visit relatives, get away from the city and enjoy a strong dollar for a change.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 7 hours, 16 minutes ago • europealacarte.co.uk
Sometimes the best places to visit in Europe are off the beaten path.  Way off the beaten path.  Smack dab in the middle of Sweden off the beaten path.  That’s where you’ll find the village of Järvsö.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 7 hours, 49 minutes ago • gadling.com
The Peruvian Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Martin Pérez, has announced that popular tourist destination Machu Picchu will reopen to visitors starting April 1st, marking a return to normalcy for the 15th century Inca fortress that is the focal point Peru's travel industry.
Submitted by Carolyn Scott, Made Popular: 8 hours, 16 minutes ago • youtube.com
The Healthy Voyager goes to Denver!
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 8 hours, 49 minutes ago • gadling.com
Most people will agree that dog is man's best friend. In parts of Asia, however, it's also what's for dinner. The consumption of dog and cat meat by humans is practiced in parts of China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Philippines. Cat is eaten in parts of China and South America. The times they are a-changin', however, because the Chinese government is considering legislation that would make eating dogs and cats illegal there, in part because of how the practice negatively impacts overseas tourism.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 9 hours, 16 minutes ago • ricksteves.com
Still buzzing from the fun, sharing, and brainstorming our tour staff enjoyed with our tour guides at our annual summit last month, we are busy incorporating itinerary changes we agreed upon into our 2010 tour plans. Here is the thinking behind more of what I hope are improvements. (Sorry for the delay in getting this entry out. This has been a particularly busy week.)