Oct
17
2024
Senator Kyrsten Sinema is leaving office, and the avid traveler appears to have ramped up her trips before leaving Congress.
Sinema’s Final Flight: Inside Her $200K Travel Spending Spree Before Leaving Congress
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Uber Wants Expedia: Will The Merger Of Two Consumer Nightmares Make Everything Worse?
Oct
17
2024
Uber is run by the former CEO of Expedia (2005 – 2017). No wonder it’s become such a terrible experience for both riders and drivers.
Infamous Airline Tycoon Frank Lorenzo’s Dire Warning: Biden’s Rules Are Crippling U.S. Aviation
Sep
04
2024
The meat of Lorenzo’s argument is this: airlines are forced to comply with more stringent rules than exist for other industries.
Summer Getaways Sparked Last Week’s Market Crash: Stay Connected Or Risk Losing It All
Aug
12
2024
Last week’s stock market plunge was apparently because all the traders who knew what they were doing were on vacation.
Cosmopolitan Las Vegas Now Part Of MGM Rewards, Elite Benefits And Combined Status In Effect
Jul
30
2024
It’s a complicated, complicated world that just got a little simpler because Cosmopolitan’s own Identity program has been merged into MGM Rewards.
More Than One-Third Of Americans Are Borrowing Money For Summer Vacations, Make It Make Sense
Jun
30
2024
Can this even be real, that 36% of American’s “plan to take on debt for summer travel” – can someone possibly explain this to me?
Airlines Should Treat Passengers Like Human Beings — Not Self-Loading Cargo
Jun
01
2024
The most important element of air travel is your personal space. That means the seat and what surrounds it.
I’d posit what comes next isn’t meal or the alcohol. It’s not the lounge on the ground before departure and it isn’t the contents of an amenity kit. It isn’t the inflight entertainment.
The Dark Side Of Destination Marketing: How Tourism Boards Squander Millions And Dodge Accountability
May
07
2024
Tourism boards are often highly questionable. They’re big pots of money where politicians appoint friendlies to cush, well-paying jobs where there are very few metrics of actual success and leaders attend conferences and treat themselves and others to a good time.
The Elite Experience: When Traveling On Points Gives You Access To Places You Don’t Belong
May
04
2024
They had given a booking to us! And so we were welcomed. You are the guest. Therefore you belong. You don’t need to conform to anyone else’s expectations. Stop caring so much about what other people think of you, and sit with your own experience. Miles and points turn out to actually be a great social equalizer.
Here’s The Real Reason People Are Buying $200 Million In Gold From Costco Every Month
Apr
23
2024
Costco has sold gold bars since the fall. They get more than the spot price of gold, but it’s still a good deal compared to most places you’ll purchase it.
It’s one of the more unusual things that Costco sells, perhaps, and it’s gotten a lot of attention this month because of a Wells Fargo report suggesting Costco sells $200,000,000 per month in gold bars. That’s a run rate of $2.4 billion per year in gold sales.
