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☆ The 8 things I really wish I knew before I traveled solo to 100 countries
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Abbie Synan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I've solo traveled to more than 100 countries since 2013 and I've learned lessons along the way. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . What was meant to be a short sabbatical from the US turned into visiting over 100 countries in the last decade. Here are the things I wish I'd known back when I set foot in country No. Solo travel will push you out of your comfort zone and challenge you in ways nothing else can.

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☆ The Friend Trip: Fun Without the Friction
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Shannon Sims | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Whoever said a friend is a friend forever has clearly never experienced a group trip that has devolved into a maelstrom of conflicting plans and bickering over restaurant bills. All your friends are not travel friends,” advises N’dea Irvin-Choy, a 27-year-old Los Angeles-based travel influencer, on her popular TikTok account. She suggests picking travel partners who share similar interests, and deciding ahead of time what kind of a trip you will be taking — relaxation, partying, adventure. Once you’re in booking mode, Mobili provides a way to see each group member’s travel bookings at once, a tool that is especially useful for larger groups. Others in the group can then collaborate with the same trip by adding their own bookings to create a group itinerary.

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☆ These are the 20 safest U.S. cities for solo female travelers—6 are in California
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

TripIt, a travel organizing app, shared their list of the top 20 safest cities in the U.S. for women travelers exclusively to CNBC Make It. Using data from GeoSure, a platform that analyzes metadata to determine the safety of particular destinations, TripIt ranked the cities using a score from 1 to 100. The cities on the list were scored based on variables like:rights and libertiesenvironmental factorsopportunities to meet needs. All of the cities on the list landed a score of 71-80. Jen Moyse, VP of product at TripIt, tells CNBC Make It that the safest destinations in the U.S. have a few things in common.

☆ These are the Top 8 airlines in the world, according to a group's survey of more than a million passengers
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Airline Passenger Experience Association named its Top 8 airlines in the world for 2023. The organization says it used more than a million passenger surveys that asked people about their experiences on 600 airlines around the world. The winners were not much different from last year, when the group named seven top carriers. These include Japan Airlines, Dutch national airline KLM, Singapore Airlines, Turkish Airlines; and Middle Eastern carriers Qatar Airways, Saudia, and Emirates. Here's a closer look at the Top 8 airlines named by APEX for 2023, listed in alphabetical order.

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