Phishing Scams All the Rage This Summer
The travel space is seeing a rise in phishing scams and domain spoofing as travel records are making easy targets for hacking experts to reach travelers in ways they may otherwise trust.
What They’ll Buy: U.S. Travelers in Focus
MMGY Global’s Portrait of American Traveler (POAT) survey found, among other interesting fragments, that food is a driving influence when it comes to choosing places to vacation and ways to vacation. Being motivated to vacation in order to experience new cuisines has grown from 51 percent of travelers in 2014 to 70 percent in […]
Packing Light: You Can Take it With You
By Christopher Elliott Scott Jordan didn’t mean to change the way people pack — or more specifically, don’t pack when he started SCOTTeVEST 18 years ago. He thought his multi-pocketed clothes would catch on with gadget users. But then 9/11 happened. Suddenly, checked bags were being scanned, rifled through, and restricted. Jordan’s just-launched clothing line […]
Art of Travel? Follow the Masters
By Christopher Elliott Travel is an art, not a science. Read enough columns, and you might think being the world’s smartest traveler is a paint-by-number proposition, an easy formula you can follow. But as you start planning your summer trips, maybe it’s worth asking if there’s more to it than just buying a manual or […]
Travel: Hidden Fees and Quick Fixes
By Christopher Elliott When it comes to new travel fees, the sky’s the limit. Or, in Liz Pollock’s case, the fourth floor of her hotel. Pollock recently checked out of the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Golf Resort Palm Springs Area in Cathedral City, Calif., and discovered a mysterious fee on her hotel bill: a “top-floor” surcharge of […]
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