Forbes Travel Guide (formerly Mobil Travel Guide) has announced their 4 & 5-star hotel, restaurant and spa listings for 2011.
Out of the 50,000 hotels in North America, Forbes Travel Guide recommends 3000. Out of these 3000, only 54 have earned five-stars.
Of these 54, New York (more…)

Story 1: Thanksgiving travel is a nightmare on its own. But the TSA has made it a lot worse this year with full body scans and extreme pat-downs.
By deciding to ask flyers to protest against the TSA’s overreach during Thanksgiving travel, consumer groups have made the whole (more…)

Over 1 million people will be in Times Square in New York on New Year’s Eve to watch the ball drop, with another 100 million in the US and 1 billion worldwide watching it on TV.

In the leadup to the countdown and the grand ball drop at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s (more…)

Story 1: Non-profit Heal the Bay is working with famous artists, designers, writers and musicians to create crafted objects based on cherished beach experiences.
These items created under the ‘Buy the Bay’ project are available to own or share as a gift. All proceeds (more…)

It’s that time of the year again, so let’s dust off the top 10 lists. Here’s the top 10 travel lists for 2011 that have started popping up all over the place.
British Airways top 10 destinations for 2011: Marrakech is at the number one spot, followed by San Diego, (more…)

The 800-pound gorilla of consumer spending has stepped into the location-based mobile shopping game.
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) has launched a mobile app for the iPhone which currently includes 50 merchants ranging from hotels to tourism marketing organizations, dining and  entertainment (more…)

Story 1: Done with the holiday shopping? Guess not… so here’s a few good tips on how to give the gift of travel.

The gift of travel: Priceless – LA Times
The expensive, but worth it travel gift guide – Fox News
Travel stocking stuffers – Canoe.ca
Great gifts for road (more…)

If you’re planning to tuck into salad bars or buffets at restaurants or hotels in Washington DC, here’s some food for thought.
There’s a very real and serious al Queda threat to simultaneously poison many of these establishments.
CBS reports that the threat is credible, (more…)

Story 1: The Red Medicine restaurant in Beverly Hills adapted a unique preemptive strategy for dealing with a restaurant critic – the LA Times’ S. Irene Virbila.
The restaurant took her picture, threw the veteran critic and her party out of the restaurant and posted the picture (more…)

OSTERIA LA SPIGA PARTNERS WITH ITALY 4 REAL FOR CULINARY TOUR OF ITALY (more…)