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Here’s What The TSA Wants You To Know About Traveling On Halloween

28 October 2024
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On Halloween, Globe Aware volunteers should know that TSA is keeping security tight, even while embracing the holiday spirit. TSA’s 2023 guidelines ensure smooth, prank-free travel with eight key tips to keep things moving efficiently.

Here’s What The TSA Wants You To Know About Traveling On Halloween

Tasked with maintaining travellers’ security, airport security weighed in with tips for travelling on Halloween.

Natasha Decker
Oct 22, 2024
Travel Noire

There are no exceptions on Halloween for airport officials when it comes to maintaining travellers’ security. To ensure that the goal is accomplished in the most timely, efficient, and unstressful way, the Transportation Security Authority (TSA) outlined travel guidelines for flying on a spooky day. The 2023 published release notes that airport agents won’t crack down on travellers’ Halloween spirit. However, TSA will maintain “no pranking security practices.” The authority’s eight tips hope to ensure the day runs smoothly.

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Travel could be the best defence against ageing

30 September 2024
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Globe Aware volunteers, forget the retinol night creams! Research suggests that travel might be the ultimate way to combat premature aging. Discover why!

Travel could be the best defence against ageing

Tourism isn’t just about leisure and recreation. It could also contribute to people’s physical and mental health.

Sep 5, 2024
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Forget about retinol night creams, researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) believe travel could be the best way to defy premature ageing.

For the first time, an interdisciplinary study has applied the theory of entropy to tourism, finding that travel could have positive health benefits, including slowing down the signs of ageing.

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Travelling to Goa in monsoon? All sorts of fun you can have

23 September 2024
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If you’re a Globe Aware volunteer booking near the end of monsoon season in Goa, India, and don’t mind a little rain, here are some extra activities you can enjoy during your volunteer vacation!

Travelling to Goa in monsoon? All sorts of fun you can have

Precious Rongmei
Sep 20, 2024
TIMESOFINDIA.COM

1 Travelling to Goa in monsoon? All sorts of fun you can have

Many people have mixed feelings about travelling to Goa during monsoon season. It will rain a lot, so what’s fun about that? Well, the fun lies in going and trying something beyond the usual, stepping away from the beaches for the time being, and exploring the hinterlands. During monsoon season, it’s the forest that shines in Goa.

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Holiday Travel 2024 Outlook: When To Book Thanksgiving and Christmas Flights

16 September 2024
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For many Globe Aware volunteers, booking holiday airfare can feel like a dreaded task. The truth is, it’s never too early to start searching. If you’re one of those frustrated holiday travelers, here’s when to book your ticket to secure the best savings.

Holiday Travel 2024 Outlook: When To Book Thanksgiving and Christmas Flights

by Mia Taylor
September 15, 2024
TravelPulse

Booking holiday airfare is a dreaded chore for more than a few globetrotters.

Let’s face it: who enjoys being gouged on ticket prices to spend Thanksgiving or Christmas with loved ones?

If you fall into that bucket of irritated holiday travellers, read on. Hopper has just released a holiday travel cheat sheet. Translation: When to book your holiday ticket to score the most significant savings (Or at least avoid being quite so drastically overcharged.)

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Europe’s New Border Controls For November—What Travelers Should Know

9 September 2024
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Europe plans to introduce a new biometric passport system in November 2024. Here’s what Globe Aware volunteers heading to Romania need to know.

Europe’s New Border Controls For November—What Travelers Should Know

By Alex Ledsom
Aug 25, 2024
Forbes

Europe plans to introduce a new biometric passport system in November 2024, followed six months later by a new travel authorization for many of its visitors—here’s what travelers need to know.

Europe’s New Entry And Exit System (EES) Will Be Live In November 2024

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson confirmed that the new Entry/Exit system would be deployed on Sunday, 10 November 2024 and that the new process is in the final testing stage.

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AAO Member Finds Innovative Approach to International Humanitarian Work

6 September 2024
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September 4, 2024
American Association of Orthodontists

As a second-generation orthodontist, Dr. Drew Lombardi had an orthodontic practice in Fort Lee and Jersey City, New Jersey for 40 years until his transition to retirement in October 2023. Considering how to spend his time in retirement, Dr. Lombardi was eager to use his professional knowledge to give back to people in need.

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September Is The Cheapest Month For Americans To Fly To These 5 Incredible Destinations

4 September 2024
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As summer draws to a close, it doesn’t mean our volunteers’ travel plans have to end, too. On this list, you’ll discover at least one destination that will ignite your wanderlust, with many of them being locations where we have Globe Aware programs!

September Is The Cheapest Month For Americans To Fly To These 5 Incredible Destinations

September 1, 2024
By: Megi Canco
Travel Off Path

Just because summer’s coming to an end doesn’t mean your travel plans have to, too.

The insufferable crowds have started to dissipate, temperatures are coming back down to Earth, and best of all, airfare to some of the world’s most incredible destinations has plummeted, giving adventurous travelers on a budget the opportunity of a lifetime.

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We Asked Airport Dads To Share Their Best Advice For Low-Stress Travel

19 August 2024
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From getting through security checkpoints to dealing with unexpected flight delays, our Globe Aware volunteers know that airline travel is messy and then some. To glide through the process as effortlessly as possible, you need an airport dad in your crew. Find out what an “airport dad” is!

We Asked Airport Dads To Share Their Best Advice For Low-Stress Travel

You don’t have to be an actual dad to be an airport dad.

By Brittany Wong
Aug 16, 2024
Huffington Post

From getting through security checkpoints to dealing with unexpected flight delays, airline travel is messy and then some.

To glide through the process as effortlessly as possible, you really need an airport dad in your crew. What, exactly, is an “airport dad”? The term went viral on TikTok around 2021, when kids began documenting their hyperfocused, multitasking dads in airports.

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Should You Keep Your Passport Handy No Matter Where You’re Traveling?

12 August 2024
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Our seasoned Globe Aware volunteers are no strangers to unusual and rare travel situations. Here’s a recent situation that occurred on a flight from Puerto Rico to Miami, which makes us all wonder if it’s a good idea to carry our passports to any destination at all times. Let us know what you think!

Should You Keep Your Passport Handy No Matter Where You’re Traveling?

Some American Airlines travelers felt “kidnapped” after a recent flight gone wrong.

By Opheli Garcia Lawler
Aug 8, 2024
Thrillist

Every week, the internet delivers new travel content that makes me never want to leave my house again. This week, the video that has me worried about getting on an airplane comes from @ItalianKate on TikTok. In a video viewed 6.3 million times, a traveler (@griptape_ on TikTok) details how a flight from Puerto Rico to Miami became a quasi-hostage situation.

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How not to be a terrible tourist: What Europeans want travelers to know

12 August 2024
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These are valuable tips for Globe Aware travelers bound for Romania or any volunteer vacation destination worldwide!

How not to be a terrible tourist: What Europeans want travelers to know

Two people posing for a selfie together, a crowd and ornate fountain and buildings behind them

Tourists take a selfie in front of the Trevi Fountain in Rome. “A city is not only monuments and marbles; it is people,” says Giovanni Andrea Martini, a city official in Venice. (Andrew Medichini / Associated Press)

By Laura King
Aug. 11, 2024
LATimes

AMSTERDAM — Travel can be exhilarating or awful, and like it or not, we all leave footprints. Of course, some tourists tread more heavily than others, leaving residents swearing, slack-jawed or just shaking their heads.

In this busy European travel season, here are some things tourism professionals and local people would like you to know, so you won’t be that tourist:

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