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Hawaiian Airlines Offers Pre-Travel COVID-19 Testing for Tourists

Hawaiian Airlines Offers Pre-Travel COVID-19 Testing for Tourists

Hawaiian Airlines is now offering passengers COVID-19 tests to take at home, before traveling, to avoid the 14-day quarantine now in effect for travelers visiting or returning to the Hawaiian Islands from the US mainland. Passengers can order the $150 mail-in saliva test online through Vault Health to take at home before travel. The test
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Best Green Hotels in USA: Omni Dallas

Best Green Hotels in USA: Omni Dallas

The Omni Dallas Hotel proves once again that green can be beautiful, luxurious, and affordable. The Omni, which opened its doors on 11/11/11 — a lucky day for those of your who follow numerology — has earned LEED Gold New Construction certification. That makes this new Dallas landmark the first and only LEED Gold hotel
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Quebec Winter Carnival 2013 is world’s largest annual snow festival

Quebec Winter Carnival 2013 is world’s largest annual snow festival

The world’s largest annual winter carnival is the annual Quebec Winter Carnival, in the heart of Old Quebec.  It is 17 days of fun in the snow, February 1 to February 17, 2013. The daily schedule of festivities includes  parades, fireworks, slide runs, a giant foot ball game, concerts, snow sculptures, horse-drawn sleigh rides, dogsled rides, snow sculptures,
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Win a free vacation with these free contests and sweepstakes

Win a free vacation with these free contests and sweepstakes

Stretch your travel budget with these free vacation deals. No purchase required — just sign up on the website of the country, city, product or travel company offering the getaway prize, keep your fingers crossed. These contest are from 2011 and no longer available. Please see our home page for current information   London Callling
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Best Green Hotels in USA: Epic Hotel, Miami

Best Green Hotels in USA: Epic Hotel, Miami

The Epic Hotel is the newest Green Seal certified four-star hotel in Miami.  That’s just it’s latest award.  The Epic also has been named one of the top 25 hotels in the U. S., and one of the trendiest. The Epic is part of the Kimpton chain, which operates boutique hotels under the Monaco and
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Best eco-lodges in USA: Zion Lodge in Zion National Park

Best eco-lodges in USA: Zion Lodge in Zion National Park

Zion Lodge, in Utah’s Zion National Park, has just received Green Seal certification for its environmental programs that protect the park’s ecosystem.  The Green Seal certification is just the latest of many awards and honors the Zion Lodge has received for promoting sustainable eco-tourism and practices and environmental initiatives. The award recognizes  efforts that include purchasing
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Green B&Bs use solar energy and offer electric car charging stations

Green B&Bs use solar energy and offer electric car charging stations

California B&Bs have gone green with a variety of innovative and eco-friendly practices, including using solar power and geothermal energy systems to reduce electric costs, and providing electric car charging stations for guests arriving in plug-in hybrid and pure electric vehicles such as the Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf and Mini E. In Santa Cruz, The
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Best green hotels in USA: The Henry in Dearborn, Michigan

Best green hotels in USA: The Henry in Dearborn, Michigan

How appropriate that at the same time the Ford Motor Company is making headlines for producing green, energy efficient vehicles such as the Focus and Fiesta, a hotel named for company founder Henry Ford has earned a top rating from Green Lodging Michigan and the Michigan Dept. of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth. The hotel
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2011 Honda Models Get Top Ratings for Green, Fuel Efficient Cars

2011 Honda Models Get Top Ratings for Green, Fuel Efficient Cars

For the eleventh year in a row, Honda is the most green, most fuel efficient car company in the world.  That’s the word from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), which rates five Honda models as among the “greenest vehicles of 2011” . The greenest, most fuel efficient of them all  is the
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Honoring 50th Anniversary of JFK Inaugural with Volunteer Vacations

Honoring 50th Anniversary of JFK Inaugural with Volunteer Vacations

Combining travel with volunteer work is one of the fastest-growing segments of the travel industry.  So much that there’s even a new word for it — volontourism.  It ranges from emergency help for a community, such as cleaning beaches on the Gulf Coast and clearing rubble in Haiti, to building libraries in Bhutan and maintaining
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Evelyn Kanter is a journalist with 20+ years of experience as a newspaper and magazine writer, radio & TV news producer & reporter, and guidebook and smartphone app author – all focusing on travel, automotive, the environment and your rights as a consumer.

Evelyn Kanter currently serves as President of the International Motor Press Assn. (IMPA), and is a past Board Member of a prestigious professional group for travel journalists.

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