Category: Travel
International travel includes business travel, a component much prized by the airlines. It is prized because it constitutes so much of air travel, 60 percent or more on many …
MALTA Consisting of three Mediterranean islands fifty-eight miles south of Sicily, Malta is only 121 square miles in all. The history-minded traveler loves Malta for its castles and fortresses. …
Psychographic surveys provide information that helps pinpoint various travel markets. One such Canadian study distinguished between the quiet lake person and the overseas traveler. The type of person who …
Finland is an overlooked destination by Americans, a land about the size of England and Scotland, but with only 4.5 million people. Most visitors to Finland come from its …
Officially Holland is called The Netherlands. Holland was the largest Dutch Province and incorporated the country’s three largest and most prosperous cities: Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam. The original …
Though there is an abundance of fish, taro, coconuts, mangos, and breadfruit, the residents have come to prefer canned fish, corned beef, rice and margarine. Beer is the favorite …
The level of culture varied widely within the South Pacific, and still does. In Vanuatu, a new nation, formerly the New Hebrides, observers wonder just how bright some of …
The native kava party is different from a beer bust. No one gets drunk even though kava is made from the roots of the kava plant and is mildly …
Their social structure was feudal. Lesser chiefs reported to paramount chiefs, as is done today in the Samoas. The land was owned by the king or the alii, the …
SOCITH SEA ISLAND MYTHS Some myths about the South Sea islands hang on. People sitting in their New York offices can fantasize about eluding the pressure cooker of city …