Morning Links: Airport Bestsellers, Where America went for Mother’s Day and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 05.11.09 | 8:34 AM ET
- The novel that launched “Slumdog Millionaire” has been named the Best Travel Read in the inaugural Heathrow Travel Product Awards. (Via the Book Bench)
- Stanley Johnson asks: Has Britain’s storied Royal Geographical Society lost its sense of adventure?
- Gawker finds out where America went out for dinner on Mother’s Day. The Olive Garden leads the pack.
- The Telegraph rounds up 12 desperate airline publicity stunts from the past few years.
- Good news: American Airlines is now allowing one-way reward flights, using half the miles of a return trip. (I can’t be the only one who’s been sitting on half a flight’s worth of miles for ages, right?)
- Find out which tourism destinations are benefiting from Mexico’s swine flu pain.
- Slate’s Ron Rosenbaum looks at airport bookstore bestsellers, “the literary canaries in the dark coal mines of our paranoia.”
- From museums to sports teams to the Ringling Brothers, NewYorkology offers a list of key New York City Twitter accounts.
- Last week, Andrew Sullivan quoted Emerson on travel and narrow-mindedness; this week, one of his readers quotes John Stuart Mill in defense of travel.
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Ling 05.11.09 | 10:11 AM ET
The fat tax on airlines is probably the most boneheaded move. That’s asking for a lawsuit first time there’s a disagreement over whether someone is fat or not.