tweet digest – Mark Stachiew Travels

Daily travel news for 2023-03-15: Counting countries, Alternative spring break and China’s Great Reopening

- When visiting every country in the world isn’t challenging enough, you can try visiting every region. No one’s done it yet… https://t.co/yR72KuSd34

- Want to spend a Spring Break in #Florida that’s a bit out of the ordinary? How about volunteer to help clean up some of the damage left by Hurricane Ian?… https://t.co/Q8fDoGLMCT

- China is reopening borders to foreign tourists for first time since the pandemic began. https://t.co/bTBdrSGbol

Daily travel news for 2023-03-13: New Saudi airline, Travel influencers and Travel photos of the year

- Saudi Arabia has launched a new national airline to compete against regional giants Emirates, Qatar Airways and Turkish Airlines… https://t.co/4PgMBnN4dF

- I enjoyed this take on #travel during the time of #influencers. https://t.co/aBuzkX1jW5

- Think your #travel photos are good? I didn’t see them in this list of winners of the 2023 National Geographic Travel Photos of the Year… https://t.co/5nw1bTx6y6

- The photos shared by many #travel influencers are fake enough, but what if they were actually fake?… https://t.co/xs8IZMHaV9

- Visit these destinations before climate change renders them unattractive in five years. https://t.co/clqpQlnvmI

Daily travel news for 2023-03-01: Rising roaming fees, Travel insurance fine print and An upcycled amenity kit

- Canadian travellers are facing rising roaming fees. Read about it in this story then check out Airalo.com for a cheaper alternative… https://t.co/YqWtf46Lcz

- Health insurance is important when you #travel, but be wary of the fine print or your claims could be denied.… https://t.co/KWK08UhxcO

- This is cool. Korean Air has upcycled retired life vests to make amenity kits. https://t.co/x77BsnekyA

- A new Travel Foundation report dismisses the #travel industry’s current sustainability measures as “woefully inadequate.”… https://t.co/HX7zlUQNdV

- Can air #travel ever be environmentally sustainable? Big thinkers are working on it, but it’s still a long way off.… https://t.co/sZOrRK9q9K

- Newfoundland isn’t the only place with a puffin patrol. There’s a town in Iceland which also pulls out all the stops to save lost pufflings… https://t.co/gRlnvFWJ7F

Daily travel news for 2023-02-28: A useful travel app, sleep tourism and Skipping inflight meals

texting on a smartphone

- This app looks like a useful tool for Canadians who fly frequently to the U.S. https://t.co/BU5IOIQzjX

- Is sleep tourism actually a thing, let alone a trend? https://t.co/TubLmyHv2c

- Is skipping inflight meals actually good for the environment or just a way for airlines to use greenwashing to cut costs?… https://t.co/pqiSMvPXvT

- Kudos to the airline pilot who flew his plane in circles to show passengers the northern lights.… https://t.co/QalCprNm1c

- Lufthansa has launched Green Fares to help assuage your flight shame but environmentalists say offsetting isn’t the answer… https://t.co/LaRCN6dJDs

- It’s time to push back on those cash-grab fees that #hotels have been tacking on to customers’ bills for the past several years… https://t.co/FFN3R6zDr4

- It’s not just hotels that gouge customers with ‘junk fees,’ airlines have them too. https://t.co/GgiubcSut1

February 15, 2023

Daily travel news for 2023-02-14: Canada’s airport forecast, Eugene Levy’s new travel show and Rediscovering film cameras

Montreal Trudeau airport welcome to Canada sign

- The spring and summer vacation forecast for Canadian airports is busy, but less chaotic. https://t.co/9yWAVidzDi…

- Eugene Levy’s new #travel series ‘The Reluctant Traveler’ sounds a lot like Richard Ayoade’s ‘Travel Man,’ but will it be as brilliant?… https://t.co/jdZ8YaDQdY

- I’ve read essays like these of people who are rediscovering film cameras to capture their #travel memories, but you can’t convince me to go back… https://t.co/93X8pzXzZV

- People moan about how horrible air #travel is today compared to the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of fifty years ago, but if you were living then, chances are you wouldn’t have even been able to afford to fly… https://t.co/s1iNZ8bs4b

- So I asked this AI-powered #travel assistant for a can’t miss attraction in Puebla, Mexico and its answer was less than intelligible… https://t.co/aZaPkIG9BO