AIRFARE ALERT: JetBlue summer sale

Posted on 04/23/2012 by imblacknitravel

JetBlue tosses out a small summer fare sale, and five competitors follow suit. Who wins? Maybe you.

The folks at Smarter Travel have spotted a summer airfare sale by JetBlue on 20 of its routes to U.S. and Caribbean destinations.

Twenty discounted routes is hardly a blockbuster offering, but if it’s taking you where you want to go this summer, one may be enough. Especially when those fares could be as low as $47 each way.

The really good news about this sale is that, as they often do, several of JetBlue’s rivals are matching it — Southwest on the shorter routes and American, United, US Airways and AirTran on the longer ones.

You have until midnight Monday, April 30, to pull the trigger on any of these deals. No weekend travel on any of these fares, and they have to be purchased 21 days in advance instead of the 14-day advance purchase typical of many sales.

More the rest of the details and restrictions, go to the Smarter Travel page here.

And beware of all those nasty little add-on fees the airlines have lurking in their fare structures these days. What looks like a great deal could turn out to be something quite different once all the airlines tack on all their extra charges.

Still, with fuel costs already kicking the airline industry’s butt, and political tensions with Iran having the potential to raise those prices even further, non-sale summer airfares could cause heart palpitations this summer.

So any sale offering you a chance at lower rates is something worth investigating.

Good luck, and happy travels!

SENEGAL: Standing tall

Posted on 03/31/2012 by imblacknitravel

Voters line up at a Senegal polling station in 2012 presidential runoff.

Voters line up at a Senegal polling station — © Smandy | Dreamstime.com

The Senegalese people peacefully and overwhelmingly vote out an incumbent who was seeking to become a president-for-life. It’s a shining moment, and one with huge implications for West African travel.

There’s a good chance you scarcely read, heard or saw anything in the mainstream media about Senegal’s recently concluded runoff election to choose the country’s next president.

And that might be the greatest mark of its success.

Abdoulaye Wade is at least 85 years old; the safe bet is that he’s even older. He was trying to win a third presidential term. Senegal’s constitution allows only two.

It had all the earmarks of yet another African leader installing himself as a president-for-life.

There was just one problem: The Senegalese people were not havin’ it.

A whole host of challengers arose, even legendary Senegalese entertainer Youssou N’Dour.

When the results of the initial vote forced a runoff between Wade and former prime minister Macky Sall, much of the outside world nervously looked on.

Would Wade somehow try to steal the election — and how would the opposition, and the populace, react if he did? If Wade did lose, would his followers accept it, or would they turn the country upside down? Anything could’ve happened.

Here’s what did happen:

The opposition united behind Macky Sall.
Sunday’s runoff ballot was smooth, clean and fair.
Sall won in a landslide, with nearly 66 percent of the vote, even swamping Wade in Wade’s own district.
Wade called Sall to acknowledge his win and concede the election.

Macky Sall may now be Senegal’s president-elect, but the real winner is Senegal itself.

Since gaining independence from France in 1960, it has never suffered a civil war or a coup d’etat, never put up with a dictatorship. Outsiders who doubted its commitment to democracy prior to Sunday’s runoff can doubt it no longer. It shows a political maturity and sophistication that much of Africa — indeed, much of the world — can only envy.

(The now-outgoing President Wade deserves applause for graciously accepting the results. In the end, he put his country ahead of his personal ambitions. In doing so, he may have salvaged his legacy — and saved his country.)

All this has huge implications for Senegal and the rest of West Africa, especially when it comes to travel. The region is positioned to become a gateway to the Mother Continent, especially from the Americas. It has a staggering array of potential attractions, natural and urban, cultural and historical.

It also is home to perhaps the most well-organized and forward-looking regional economic bloc on the Mother Continent — ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States.

What’s more, West Africa has something going for it that its landlocked Central African neighbors can only dream of, hundred of miles of Atlantic coastline, much of it in pristine condition. Some of the world’s cruise lines have been eyeing this part of Africa for some time and big things may be in the offing.

Most of the ECOWAS countries either have a track record of stability, like Cameroon, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau. Others have already emerged from past turmoil, like Nigeria, Liberia and the Cote d’Ivoire, which we know as the Ivory Coast.

And when Tuareg rebels recently launched an armed coup to overthrow the government in Mali, ECOWAS gave the coup plotters 72 hours to return the government to civilian control or face harsh sanctions, including closing the borders of all ECOWAS nations to Mali.

The outcome in Mali remains uncertain, but the swiftness of the ECOWAS action was eye-catching. Could you picture the Arab League acting that decisively against, say, Syria?

So West Africa has a lot going for it. Still, so much of the region’s future, especially when it comes to tourism, hinged on what would happen in last week’s runoff race.

Senegal gave the world its answer with one of the more impressive displays of democracy in action the Mother Continent has ever witnessed. Senegal stood tall.

And because it did, West Africa’s future today looks a little brighter than it did a week earlier.

Edited by P.A. Rice

the IBIT TRAVEL DIGEST 3.21.12

Posted on 03/21/2012 by imblacknitravel

A roundup of the good, the bad and the bizarre from the world’s best travel media.

Canal houseboat in Amsterdam | ©IBIT G. Gross

VIVA MEXICO
For all the negative talk about crime and violence related to its ongoing drug war, Mexico endures as a travel destination.

Travel Weekly reports that Carnival Cruises Lines, which has already sunk some $100 million into improvements for Mexican seaports, is looking at investing in two new ones — Calica on the Caribbean coast and Puerto Cortés in Baja California Sur.

No dollar signs yet, but the fact that Carnival would be interested at all says a lot, as does the fact that Carnival CEO Gerry Cahill was down south last week to meet with Mexican president Felipe Calderon and tourism minister Gloria Guevara.

So too does this little tidbit from TW: In a story about how Spring Break travel has picked up in 2012, they point to Student City, an online travel agency that caters to high school and college kids. According to Student City, its top two destinations were Cancun and Puerto Vallarta, both on the Mexican Riviera. Panama City, FL was third.

SUMMER AIRFARES — INTO THE STRATOSPHERE?
That’s definitely how it looks to the folks at USA Today, who checked the situation with aviation and travel experts.

What do you want first, the bad news or the very bad news?

Airliners may not have to pull up to the local gas station to fill their tanks the way you and I do, but when it comes to fuel prices, the oil companies don’t cut the airlines any more slack than they do for us. So whatever causes the cost of a barrel of crude oil to jump hits everyone hard.

Even the airlines’ ability to buy options on jet fuel, a tactic pioneered by Southwest Airlines and copied by many other airlines since, doesn’t help as much as it used to.

Bottom line: Airfare prices already are higher than they were a year ago, and the pain is only going to increase once the summer “high season” arrives. You need to plan accordingly, and the US Today story has a few tips that may help.

VACATION — WHO GETS IT AND WHO DOESN’T
Embedded in a story from CNN Travel about Swiss voters rejecting a proposal for six weeks of paid vacation a year (like their neighbors in Germany) is a survey of 20 countries from Expedia, listing them in order of the amount of vacation time employees receive, how many of those days are actually taken and how many go unused.

France, to no one’s surprise, was at the top. The United States, again no surprise, was near the bottom. What may be unexpected is that nations with some of the strongest economies in Europe, as well as some of the weakest, rank among the highest for vacation days offered and actually used.

  And now, here’s this week’s Digest:

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AIR
from the New York Times
The FAA finally decides to consider adding to its list of consumer electronics devices approved for in-flight use.

 from eTurboNews
The 2012 London Olympics are only a few months away. Can London’s five airports handle a crush of visitors flying in? The heads of four British airlines seem to have their doubts.

from Travel Weekly
They’re coming to America…or at least trying to. Gol, Brazil’s low-fare airline, wants to fly Boeing 737s from Miami to Sao Paulo, with a stop in Caracas, Venezuela.

from the New York Times
How to avoid the worst seat on the airplane.

from Travel Weekly
There’s First Class, and then there’s this: Etihad, the national flag carrier of the United Arab Emirates, is installing chefs to prepare in-flight meals for their First Class passengers.

from Travel Weekly
Remember People Express, the low-fare airline back in the 1980s that bowled people over with some ridiculously cheap fares — while putting them through some even more ridiculous hassles — until Continental swallowed them up? They may be coming back.

from TNOOZ
Have you ever played with Google Flight Search? It’s only been online for six months. Simultaneously shows air routes and airfares across the United States…and now, internationally.

LAND
from  Frommer’s Travel
Want to get the feel of a place from a local’s perspective? Take a walking tour. Here’s what you’ll see if you hit the bricks in the Montmartre section of Paris. SLIDESHOW

from Smarter Travel
There are more than 900 World Heritage Sites identified around the globe by the United Nations, all of them worth seeing. The folks at Smarter Travel pick 11 must-sees. See if you agree. SLIDESHOW

from the Los Angeles Times
Ever have trouble with those balky remote controls for the television in your hotel room? Now there’s an app that will let you operate the hotel TV right from your smartphone. Unless, of course, you own a Blackberry.

SEA
from Travel Weekly
Is it just me, or is the cruise industry taking a beating this year? Princess Cruises cuts short one Caribbean cruise and cancels two more due to engine troubles aboard Caribbean Princess. Oh well, maybe things will be better next year: Princess is among the cruise lines now accepting bookings for 2013.

from Cruise Critic
A head-to-head comparison of the ten most popular mega-ships and their features — cabins, dining options, entertainment. Which one most appeals to you?

from  CNN Travel
The inside view of ten of the most popular North American cruise ports. One’s in Alaska, while the rest are scattered around the Caribbean. Avoid the crowds and pick up some local flavor.

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AFRICA
from  Reuters via Yahoo!
Is Britain trying to block access of Africa’s largest airline to Europe?

from  Capital FM (Kenya) via allAfrica.com
An innovative attempt to promote tourism to Kenya through music. Plans underway to create a musical stage production on Kenyan cultural attractions, with the country’s different languages as a centerpiece.

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AMERICAS/CARIBBEAN
from  BBC Travel
Southern, sleepy, set-in-its-ways Savannah, GA is suddenly becoming a hot zone of sophisticated art, music, dining and shopping.

from the  Los Angeles Times
There’s a lot more to Peru than just Machu Picchu, and the LAT’s Chris Reynolds shows you the what and the where in Cuzco.

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ASIA/PACIFIC
from eTurboNews
One unexpected aftershock from Japan’s 2011 earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster — a lot more Japanese tourists vacationing in Taiwan.

from BBC Travel
A mini-guide to a mini-country with a lot going on: Singapore.

from the  Los Angeles Times
A veteran traveler digs through the multiple cultural layers of the Malaysian city of Malacca.

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EUROPE
from The Guardian (London UK)
Berlin has some of the world’s most cutting-edge architecture, and through this self-guided walking tour, you can check out a lot of it.

from The Guardian (London UK) 
The three most beautiful words in the English language when joined together: Paris…wine…free. Free wine tastings of some of France’s best bottled offerings through June.

from The Guardian (London UK)
When you’re ready to party hard, head for Spain. A rundown on where and when to go. Who needs sleep, anyway?

from Rick Steves via USA Today
New things to see and do in France and Spain for 2012.

Edited by P.A.Rice

BackBid strikes again

Posted on 02/18/2012 by imblacknitravel

My ongoing experiment with the hotel reservation site BackBid continues. The site, still in beta, lets competing hotels bid to beat the price of your existing hotel reservation.

After two weeks, with one week to go before my original reservation takes effect, BackBid just produced a third competing bid — and this one is more than $100 cheaper.

Things are definitely getting interesting.

To understand more about BackBid works — and why you need to be careful if you decide to use it — check out the IBIT site review.

We have a winner!

Posted on 02/01/2012 by imblacknitravel

Congratulations to travel journalist and IBIT reader Lola Akinmade Åkerström for winning not one, but TWO gold medals for her work.

For those of you who haven’t met her yet, Lola Akinmade Åkerström is a Nigerian expat living in Sweden.

If you check out pics of her on her Web sites or her Facebook page, one thing you’ll instantly notice is that Lola likes to jump, and she jumps a lot. I’m never sure whether she does that because of her irrepressible energy, or simply to keep warm in Scandinavia.

Well, now she’s got a reason to jump for joy. Two reasons, actually.

In addition to having an NBA-worthy vertical leap, Lola also happens to be a terrific travel writer/photographer. And it looks as if the North American Travel Journalists Association agrees with me.

Lola took home not one but two gold medals from the 2011 NATJA Awards competition, both involving culinary travel.

One was for an article entitles “Slow Food in Sapmi” for the Wed site Sweden.se.

The other was for a piece published by the Matador Network entitled “Revamping Classic Irish Tea at Dublin’s Merrion Hotel.”

Please join me in wishing Lola congratulations and continued success!

NEW ON IBIT: Travelers of Color

Posted on 01/13/2012 by imblacknitravel

DANIELLE POINTDUJOUR and friends in Florence

Meet the brothers and sisters who are fearlessly seeing the world and asserting their presence in the global village.

A new feature makes its debut today on IBIT. It’s a new link under the “masthead” where the image of the KLM’s baby-blue Boeing 747 appears:

TRAVELERS of COLOR

When you click on it, you’ll meet some very cool people — black Americans shattering that old myth that “black folks don’t travel.” These brothers and sisters are going, have already gone or are planning to go all over the world.

Some live in the United States and readily travel the globe. Others are “expats” who’ve left these shores, temporarily or permanently, to find career success, personal fulfillment or both.

And what are these Expats of Color doing with their free time? Why, traveling, of course.

Over the coming months, they’ll be sharing their journeys and their plans with you, right here on the TOC page.

Over time, this page will become a deep pool of travel knowledge, experience and expertise. If you’ve got questions about destinations or anything else related to travel, post them on this page in the Comments section. Everyone will benefit from the answers.

And who knows? You just might find some inspiration for a trip of your own!

You’ll also find links to travel blogs and Web sites created by black Americans, because just as there are world travelers who look like you, there also are travel writers and bloggers who look like you — though you might not believe that when you look at the typical newspaper travel section or slick monthly travel magazine.

Trust me, however, they’re out there — and you’ll be meeting them right here.

So when you check in here to peruse my latest blog post, don’t forget to check out the TRAVELERS of COLOR!

Edited by P.A. Rice

TRAVEL GEAR: Get your stolen camera back

Posted on 12/30/2011 by imblacknitravel

A new service takes advantage of digital photo technology and social media to give you a chance to retrieve a camera that’s been ripped off.

Whether you’re a professional photographer shooting travel assignments around the world or an amateur taking snaps on his first big international trip, few experiences leave a more sickening feeling in the pit of your stomach than to have your precious camera stolen.

There’s little that can soothe that feeling of a journey sabotaged by thieves, but now — thanks to the Web — there may actually be a way to track stolen your stolen gear and get it back.

It’s called CameraTrace and it just went “live” this week. Here’s how it works:

You send them the serial number of each camera or camera body you own. You also send them $10 per camera/camera body, one time, for life.

That’s it. The rest is digital genius and social media magic.

If anyone posts a pic anywhere online using your stolen gear, CameraTrace will detect and send you an immediate email notice.

Maybe it wasn’t stolen; maybe you lost it and someone else found it. The service includes a sticker to put on your camera telling the finder how to return it to you.

The key to all this is something to which the average one of us gives not a single thought when we’re taking pictures, something most of us probably have never even heard of, but is a part of every shot we take.

Exchangeable Image File Format. EXIF for short. It’s the means by which your camera saves your pics on that data card. EXIF saves every bit of technical data about the image — the date and time it was shot, th exposure settings, whether you used a flash, the make and model of the camera.

And most important in the context of this discussion, the serial number of that camera.

It’s all there. And wherever that image is uploaded onto the Web, a viewer can find it if they know where and how to look.

CameraTrace also knows where and how to find it. And when an image from registered camera that’s been reported lost or stolen turns up on the Web, CameraTrace will know where it was posted, when it was posted — and quite possibly by whom.

There’s no absolute guarantee that this will work. CameraTrace is hardly foolproof. In fact, it’s easily defeated by the tech-savvy thief. But for now, there aren’t that many of those.

And $10 in return for a fighting chance to get your stolen gear back is better — and potentially a lot cheaper — than having no chance at all.

A POSTSCRIPT: CSI Facebook
Within 30 minutes of this post being published, I got this message on the IBIT Facebook page:

“I just found a camera and ipod at Ohara Airport. I tracked the owner down through his facebook page on the ipod.. He is a very happy young man right now!”

I’ll bet he is. Don’t you just LOVE technology?

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IBIT in CHINA: A random summing up

Posted on 12/23/2011 by imblacknitravel

Last in a series

China can be enthralling, infuriating, fascinating, confounding, intimidating and enchanting. One visit in a lifetime may be enough for you — but don’t count on it.

When you spend a handful of days in a country with 5,000 years old that is hell-bent on modernizing itself almost overnight, you’re going to come away with a whirlwind of memories, images, impressions, many of which may be confusing or downright contradictory.

You’re scarcely scratching the proverbial surface and you know it. Yet even in that most superficial scratch, you see, hear, absorb so much. How much of it is true, how much of it is real?

In the case of China, the short answer seems to be: All of it, even the contradictory bits.

It starts the moment you arrive in Beijing, heading to pick up your luggage in one of the newest and most ultra-modern airports in the world, only to be stopped cold at the sight of one of Xi’an’s 1,900-year-old life-sized terracotta warriors.

It continues as you try to balance the sight of virtual forests of skyscrapers with a seemingly endless stream of ancient superstitions that governed the building of China’s historic palaces and temples, which still stand.

Like the one that creates a doorway threshold so high that small children may need step ladders to enter a room. Why? To keep out ghosts, whom the Chinese believe have no knees.

Because of this visit, you’ll return home knowing that the next time you see a pair of stone lions guarding a doorway in some distant Chinatown, that the male lion is always on the right, and that even the lion itself is an import from ancient Afghanistan.

And that the more small animals you see lining the curled end of a roof beam, the more important the building — and its occupant.

The Chinese themselves may seem at times brusque, abrupt, downright rude, at other times, friendly and engaging. They are the human equivalent of Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.

And speaking of chocolates…if you’re a black American, you’ll see an astonishing number of Chinese who want a picture of you. They don’t know who you are and don’t care, but they will be eager, at times almost desperate, to immortalize you in their camera or cellphone.

Sometimes, they’ll come right up and ask you to pose with them in a pic. Other times, you’ll catch them trying to sneak a shot of you. At times, you may feel as if you’re surrounded by your own private army of Chinese paparazzi.

If you’re a person with hair-trigger sensibilities, this may not be the place for you. If you go the other way and roll with it, or even have some fun with it — at least with the polite ones who ask first — you come away somewhat bemused by the whole thing.

But if you’re a black American, the thing that may stun you most of all in China’s capital, Beijing, is the number of folks you see who look and sound like you. In significant numbers, the “family,” so to speak, is showing up in China.

We’re going on our own. We’re going with the tour groups that land in Beijing daily. We’re even going as expatriate students, teachers, professionals. Black America is “representing” in the Middle Kingdom.

Even as they welcome us, the Chinese don’t seem to be quite sure what to make of “us,” as this blog article about black American expats will attest.

Africans, meanwhile, have their own issues with and within China, a topic we’ve already touched on here and will do again in the coming months.

All this seems only fair to me. I suspect those of us descended from the Mother Continent, regardless of which side of the Atlantic on which we were born, puzzle the Chinese as much as they puzzle us. Who are these people? Where are they heading? What do they want?

I think it’s fair to say that attitudes in both directions are in for a lengthy adjustment.

After a first visit lasting all of six days, there’s one thing I know with absolute certainty about China. On second thought, make that two things.

The first is that I don’t know China.

I don’t know the old China that was so fiercely holding on to its old ways, and in some ways still is. Nor do I know the new China, the one now determined with equal ferocity to modernize, build a better life for itself and become a dominant voice in the world.

The second thing is that China, in all its confusion and self-contradiction, is worth getting to know.

One visit might be enough for many folks, but in a very real sense, it could never be enough. There’s just too much here that’s worth seeing, feeling, learning.

And until they get here to scratch that exquisitely complex surface for themselves, your friends who’ve only been to Europe or Nassau or Honolulu will have no idea what they’ve been missing.

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How clean is your cruise ship?

Posted on 12/21/2011 by imblacknitravel

A surprise health inspection catches one of Royal Caribbean’s vessels slipping badly on hygiene.

Okay, this is just scary.

Our friends over at Cruise Critic are reporting that inspectors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently hit Royal Caribbean’s Monarch of the Seas for one of its two annual surprise health inspections.

To earn a passing grade, your ship has to score 86 points out of 100.

Monarch came in at 85. Not good. And we’re not talking a handful of violations, either, but dozens of them. Really not good. But what jumps out at you are the nature of the violations the CDC found.

Among other things:

Dirty dishes stacked amid clean ones
Multiple examples of unsafe food handling
Missing safety signs
Poor management of pool water
Multiple encounters of fruit flies among the food

Definitely not good.

To give you an idea how serious this is, there’s only one other cruise ship that’s flunked a CDC inspection all year. That was the fairly new — and very pricey — Queen Mary 2.

You can read the entire Cruise Critic report here.

CDC health inspections are tough. They should be. Of the dozens of liners making calls on American ports, only eight this year have aced the inspections with perfect scores.

But hearing that ships can actually fail these tests is more than a little disconcerting, because once on board, we have little control over our own health and safety. We depend on crew and company to keep things ship-shape.

They place the well-being of thousands in jeopardy every time they don’t.

So with this failed inspection, does this mean that Monarch of the Seas will now have to be re-christened as “Monarch of Disease?” Hardly. Royal Caribbean will get these things fixed and the ship will be just fine.

That’s why these inspections are done, to show crews and companies where they’re slipping so they can better protect us.

Still, it’s a reminder of why government oversight is important when it comes to public health.

IBIT in CHINA: Tough history, tough people

Posted on 12/05/2011 by imblacknitravel

Sixth in a series

If people in Shanghai seem a little more driven than their countrymen, they have their reasons. They also have a history.

You can learn a lot about folks from looking at the history of their home.

Chinese from other parts of China seem to think that folks in Shanghai are a little unusual. Always on the grind, on the hustle, driven.

What you learn from Shanghai’s history is that these are some tough, single-minded, strong-willed folks.

Shanghai begin as a nondescript fishing village on the coast of the East China Sea, plagued by Japanese pirates in the 1500s until they built a protective wall. Folks felt safer The village grew into a port town, and then a city.

But that wall wasn’t enough to keep out the Royal Navy.

When Britain forced China into the opium trade at gunpoint in the First Opium War they also forced China to turn Shanghai into a free port, where the British could do pretty much whatever.

Ultimately, Britain, France and the United States all ran freewheeling “concessions” from their posh riverfront offices and hotels known as “the Bund.”

THE SHANGHAI GHETTO
I’d heard all about the Warsaw Ghetto, but I’d never heard of the Shanghai Ghetto.

Before initiating their “Final Solution,” the Nazis allowed some Jews to leave Germany — if they could find a country that would issue them a visa. Most, including the United States, literally turned them away.

Shanghai did not. The city accepted Jewish refugees, with or without visas.

Germany’s ally, Japan, occupied Shanghai the whole time. They not only left the the Jews alone, but refused to hand them over to the Germans.

If you go today to Houshan Park in the Hongkou District, you’ll find a monument to the Shanghai Ghetto.

Shanghai became the kind of place where money flows and anything goes. It was Vegas before Vegas, baby.

When the shippers’ need for sailors became so great that they had to kidnap men off the street, the Chinese port became an English verb — “shanghaied.”

Japan invaded China in 1937. Shanghai was bombed, first by the Japanese, then by the United States. It also was brutally occupied until 1945.

After the Japanese were kicked out, Mao Zedong and the Communists moved in. In 1966, Mao unleashed his disastrous Cultural Revolution, led by the Gang of Four, from Shanghai, which somehow kept working through it.

But when post-Maoist leadership decided to open up China to full-contact capitalism, that was Shanghai’s cue to get busy.

Today, it’s China’s most populous city. World’s busiest container port. Elevated freeways. Cutting-edge architecture. Site of a 2010 world exposition. You can almost smell the money here.

But if Shanghai seems unusually determined to enjoy its good times, it may be because it’s already seen the other side.

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the IBIT TRAVEL DIGEST 3.21.12

BackBid strikes again

We have a winner!

NEW ON IBIT: Travelers of Color

TRAVEL GEAR: Get your stolen camera back

IBIT in CHINA: A random summing up

How clean is your cruise ship?

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