...If you're going away for the holidays this year, you're probably unhappily anticipating a hike in gas prices, long lines at airport security and delays all-around. According to the Bureau of Transportation, Thanksgiving and the winter holiday season are the busiest long-distance travel times in a given year. While travelers cannot avoid hefty waits at check-in and traffic on the highway, there are plenty of measures to take in order to alleviate any holiday season travel stress.

Know when to travel: For local excursions, people tend to leave on Thursdays. If traveling over 100 miles away, Wednesday through Sunday are the most popular days.

About 90% of Thanksgiving travel is through one's vehicle.

The Sunday and Monday after Thanksgiving are the busiest days to travel back home. If you book a flight or drive on Tuesda...more

Which Shui is the Right Shui? Use Travel Feng Shui to Make Your Trip a Success

...When traveling, whether for business or for pleasure, you can still enjoy the benefits of feng shui. You might have even noticed that you enjoy your travel more (or less) when you travel to certain places that are in one direction. Maybe you find that you enjoy travel equally well, but more so to some places than others. For some, Asia might hold greater attraction, and for others, it might be Europe. Here are some ideas to enhance your travel feng shui -- including how to tell which is the right "shui" for you!

Determining Feng Shui Travel Directions
Unlike sitting and sleeping directions, determining travel feng shui directions that are auspicious or inauspicious is based on where you are traveling from, rather than where you are traveling to. Say for instance that you are an east group person living in Dallas and you are traveling to Los angeles. You would say that looking from Los angeles you will be coming from the east. This is a good direction for an east-group person, but not for a west group person.

Ideally, East group people want to travel from the EAST and West group people wa...more

Do You Need Your Travel Agents Anymore?

...Most of us fancy traveling into distant lands and see new places and the present age offers us ample means to fulfill these dreams as well. With the world being turned into a global village, the networking and transportation has gone through a big change and it has made traveling very easy. With the emergence of various travel packages in the market, traveling around the world is no more a distant dream. There are various agencies that are eager to transform your dreams into reality.

Here exactly, the i...more

The $7 Trillion Travel Industry

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Annually, there is more than $7 trillion dollars spent on travel around the world. There are many reasons why this industry is so huge. First, there is the fact that often people must travel, for business reasons. Second, people travel often to visit long-distance relatives. Third, people travel for pleasure. The travel and tourism industry includes many smaller sectors, such as air travel, car rentals, hotels and resorts, and numerous other smaller sectors. The fact that so many sma...more

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