You may still have time to renew your passport or apply for a new one before the fees go up Tuesday. Starting tomorrow US passport fees will increase about 35%, making it even more expensive to travel. The fee to renew your passport is going from $75 to $110 and to apply for your first [...]

With families taking a holiday and kids out of school for the summer, the 4th of July is by far the busiest travel holiday of the year. An estimated 35 million US travelers are expected to hit the roads and skies this Independence Day weekend, which is an increase of 17.1% from last year’s numbers. [...]

Well-loved actor Morgan Freeman is hosting a new space travel TV show for the Science Channel. The new series discusses space exploration and what’s next for the commercial space travel industry In the first episode of the series, Freeman didn’t shy away from the God question, asking “Was there a Creator?” The question, as with [...]

Launched on Monday, the new travel review site Trip Friends is TripAdvisor’s brainchild which allows you to ask your friends, not strangers, about travel advice. Now you won’t have to worry with lengthy web searches on travel destination reviews with this great new site. Trip Friends, which is expected to launch today, prompts users looking [...]

A group of 74 well-known Cuban dissidents has sent an open letter to the US Congress, asking the Cuba travel ban to be dropped. The letter urges Congress to pass legislation that would allow Americans to finally visit the country freely.  US citizens have not been able to travel to Cuba since the US embargo [...]

Just in time for summer, Germany is planning to impose a new tax on air travel to try and reduce their budget deficit. Speaking from Berlin on Monday, Chancellor Angela Merkel revealed a four-year plan to reduce the country’s debts and lending part of that responsibility to the nation’s air travelers. The levy will yield [...]

Wow!  Check out this recent statement from the U.S. Department of Transportation, if you’re bumped involuntarily from an airline flight, you could be paid as much as $1,200 per incident, this is up from $400 to $800. The new bumping rules will be released today from the department and we can’t wait to read through [...]

Well, it’s that time of year again when everyone takes advantage of the peak summer travel season, and US major airlines are certainly included. Passengers on major air carriers this summer will have to pay peak season surcharges ranging from $10 to $30 a seat from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend.  Fortunately we [...]

Last week Expedia.com debuted their new gay-friendly sites, finally.  The site launched fifteen different cities at start where you can search for “LGBT-welcoming” hotels and attractions. Expedia has partnered with the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association to find and identify “LGBT-welcoming” hotels. Now, along with air conditioning and courtesy breakfast, you can search for [...]

Well this is a first, Mexico is issuing a warning to their citizens not to visit the US state of Arizona due to the recent passing of the strictest immigration law in history. You go, Mexico.  It’s extremely rare that Mexico issues a travel advisory for their citizens visiting the States, but with Arizona recently [...]