Morning Links: Flushing the French Quarter, Car-Rental Madness and More
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.02.09 | 8:30 AM ET
Photo of - Kurt Andersen talked to Pico Iyer about his life as an “outside man” in Japan. There’s also video.
- Spud Hilton calls place-dropping a “a subtle and often unnoticed art form.”
- Goodbye, street-flushing in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Hello, toxic stench?
- Travel with Spirit, a new magazine for “focusing exclusively on Christian travel,” debuted last week.
- Arthur Frommer has an idea to stimulate the U.S. economy: Induce more foreign tourists to visit.
- Dan Bilefsky investigates the battle for the Czech Republic’s Kingdom of Wallachia.
- The outlook for mobile-ticketing—using your cell phone as a boarding pass—is strong. (via Tripso)
- One upside of the down economy for travelers: Unexpected hotel room upgrades.
- Video: This guy was pushed a little too far at the car-rental counter.
- This is kind of creepy: Plane-crash simulation as team-building exercise.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Ling 02.02.09 | 9:54 AM ET
About Arthur Frommer and bringing in more tourists - The problem is that Homeland Security and the tourism industry are working in opposite directions. Homeland Security’s every new policy has the effective result of making it more difficult to get into the U.S. Unless that changes, the situation won’t improve.
Sophia Dembling 02.02.09 | 12:35 PM ET
Love the place dropping essay but it only works with other travelers who have a chance of one-upping you. Do it among non-travelers and they roll their eyes and start avoiding you.