Travel

Travel is the change in location of people on a trip, or the process of time involved in a person or object moving from one location to another. Reasons for travel include:

• Tourism—travel for recreation. This may apply to the travel itself or the travel may just be the necessary investment to arrive at a desired location.
• Visiting friends and family
• Trade
• Commuting

The word originates from the Middle English word travailen ("to toil"), which comes from the French word travailler ("travail").

Midnight Rose asked: "i want to travel somewhere with my mom sometime soon. where should we go? i have no clue where to start. we need some place thats not going to cost alot, but is alot of fun!"

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Samantha replied: "Find the nearest train station that's interstate.Start looking around on the internet for interesting places to see, or stop at. Trains are a hell of a lot cheaper than driving a car, what with gas a parking...If you want to do international, to EF,.They have the best trips, and the best prices hands down.I've traveled with them, and am in the future."

[ºKaЯLiTaº] replied: "i'll recomend you Europe or maybe Egipt but no matter where you go...it always going to be expensive...but good luck"

trav'ler replied: "maybe if you could give some idea of where you are starting from -- I assume the US -- but distance affects travel costs, so it would be easier to give you some suggestions if we knew if you were East coast, south east, northwest etcand give an idea of your budget -- 'cost alot' can be a few hundred to a few thousand or more. so let us know if we should be looking for bus trips or international cruises :-)To get some ideas for women's travel, I like journeywoman.com"

Monkeyboots92 replied: "get on a plane and go to vegas or new york city."

dreamer replied: "catalina island is reeally fun! i went there one and ifelt like i was on clouds. it was comfortable becuase everyone was in bathing suits:] the restuarants there were also cute and pretty. the view was the best though. it depends on where u live. if u live in CA or anywhere there, it will be cheap because u go on a boat and it takes u there...but if u live on the other side of america, it will cost a lot to go toCA and then to boat...i hope i helped! good luck"

bansko replied: "I offer you a winter heaven in my country Bulgaria.It is small town called Bansko.It's best for skiing."

Kal H asked: "I do know someone who has the same ability who travels back and forth to Japan to teach English. I also have thought of import/export, though I don't know much about it. Being an antiques scout/buyer was suggested to me. I doubt I could compete in the photoessay/travel writer category. Do you have any ideas? Thanks.No, I'm not an airline employee, and no, I'm not suggesting trying to transfer my pass. Please read my description before replying."

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flyer74422 replied: "You can't. I assume you have an employee pass. In this day and age ID's are thoroughly checked so no one else could use your pass."

Mr. T's Pretty Cuzzin replied: "You can't. There was a time when a very minute number of passengers could standby--as a pre-approved courier--on a few select and rare international flights for very low prices, but since 9-11, those days are gone....Baggage allowances are so low, and excess baggage fees so high, that couriering your own goods seems like a difficult way to make some cash--unless you're importing something like rare feathers, for example.Keep in mind that if your travel is for work, and you actually perform work in another country, you might well be liable for tax on income earned there--further complicating the idea.Have you considered going with older people who might need some assistance while travelling? Just an idea."

Mxsmanic replied: "I think that if you read the fine print in whatever agreement gives you standby flight privilege, you'll find serious limitations on how and for what purpose you can use that privilege.Additionally, there are zillions of other legal ramifications that you'd have to be aware of—being able to fly for free is in fact almost insignificant compared to these other considerations, if you want to do things legally."

phil replied: "I don't know if you're flying on an employee's privileges, but if you are...It's against the rules of pass travel to use standby flights for business purposes. The employee could lose their benefits if the wrong people found out.By the way, cigarettes are getting very expensive in the USA and Canada. I was in St. Maarten recenly and they cost about $1 per pack. In Canada $9.50."

hameedha asked: "A travel portal needs a website but how the airlines, hotels, cruises, buses, rails are linked. Is it GDS or linking of individual airlines websites, etc. I need more information on this"

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Sawadee Krub replied: "They are linked through affiliate links. You go to the websites and sign up to become an affiliate. Lets pretend you want to make links on your website to travelocity flights for airlines....so you go to travelocity.com and look at the bottom of the website. You will see the words "affiliate program" in small letters. Like this:Click on that to sign up. Once you sign up, travelocity would give you links for whatever flights you need links for. They may even have links that self update if you want a website that updates itself. So if you want to promote hotels, find a hotel affiliate...check hotel.com...look at the bottom of their page for the words "affiliate" and sign up with them if you want to promote hotels....this is how you do it. Just sign up for affiliates, choose what you want to link to, get the links, and put the links on your site. Then you have to log in to the seperate websites to see how much money you are making. If you sign up for travelocity and hotels.com for example, you will have to sign in to both of them to see how much you have made for each."

Jon replied: "I have not worked for a travel portal, but I used to be a website developer for an airline's website.We first had to have a Sabre license. Many airlines use Sabre, but not all of them do. A Sabre license was pretty expensive - unless a person is very rich, they could not afford to buy one just for fun.We could have written our own code to open a TN3270 connection to Sabre, and "screen scrape" but instead we purchased a Java library to do this. This library was called Datalex. I would imaging there are similar products available for .NET, etc."

Kiki asked: "I want to work for travel channel, it must be my job to travel the world. Im studying film directing and taking photography courses. How and where do you think i should get a job that will allow me to travel?Thanks a mil..."

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ArtForms replied: "omg that is sucha good question, i have always wanted to do the same too, i am also taking photography courses... I can't wait too see what type of answers you get.Good luck!"

sparker177 replied: "http://search.travelchannel.com/travel/Jobs%20At%20Travel%20Channel"

screwdriver replied: "Most of the world has already been photographed ad nauseum so there are already millions of pictures out there. Yours have to be different.It can be because of things that are happening, news events etc. It could be because you have some specialist knowledge in another field such as birds, animals or plants hydro electric schemes, oil exploration, humanities etc. Yes an eclectic mix, but it's your specialist knowledge that's important, not your photographic skills, though they have to be high too.Look at the articles in National Geographic they all have some theme other than photography. They are beautiful photographs, so their photography skills are high, but it's their knowledge of Global Warming or the tribesmen of the Amazon or some similar specialty that got them there.Chris"

joedlh replied: "Photographers for National Geographic are at the top of their field. Don't expect to get an offer right out of photography school. Look for a job that pays the rent first. Having discouraged you, let me say that there is hope. I attended one of their seminars, which was an excellent orientation to the field. Here is the link to the schedule:. In the one I attended, there was a section for pitching ideas. If they heard something that sounded interesting then they pursued it. They seek the kind of imagery that tells a story. It's not the stuff you can buy in a postcard store. So travel and bring your camera. Look for the unique, rare, or surprising and which conveys an emotion or evokes one in the viewer. Build up your experience. Hone your skills. Be self-critical. A good photographer can get a winning shot with a 3 megapixel camera, while a hack will still get junk from an $8,000 DSLR."

capturetheglow asked: "Thinking of taking an online course through Penn & Foster for the travel industry to become a travel agent. Thinking of stopping by a local travel agency to ask them questions. But thought I would ask here first. Any travel agents out there? How much do you make?"

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MzBusinessWoman replied: "Hello,I am a travel agent. First, I will say that in this industry, your success depends on you. A travel agent has an unlimited earning potential. My husband and I together are travel agents and we love it. We've been travel agents since January, and already, we haven't looked back! We work out of our home, and we set our own hours!! You know what, I'm going to save you some of the $$$ that you were about to dole out to Penn Foster, click this link, and when you're on the front page, click "view the company presentation""

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