Travel News and Stories for 11/18/2009 : Kathika Travel Website

By newsdesk on November 18th, 2009

Below is a list of travel news and stories for 11/18/2009

Hawaii’s Famed Beaches Are Shrinking
Hawaii’s beaches are shrinking; scientists blame global warming.
http://abcnews.go.com

Kingdom of the Little People in China
Community opened with more than 100 participants, all shorter than 4-foot-4.
http://abcnews.go.com

Here’s a receipt for your airline ticket (PS, you don’t have a ticket)
Doris Weller booked a set of roundtrip tickets from Wichita, Kan., to Houston on AirTran recently. Her husband, Lawrence, needed to be in Houston for an important medical treatment. The airline sent her a confirmation. But it wasn’t the kind of confirmation she expected.
http://www.elliott.org

Holiday Travel Refresher: What if I Lose or Forget My ID?
It’s been a while since we talked about IDs and what happens if you lose or forget your ID on the way to the airport. With the busiest travel time of the year quickly approaching, I thought it would be wise to do a quick refresher on the subject.
http://www.tsa.gov

The Spiritual Experience That Wasn’t
Frequent Traveler writer Margie Goldsmith just returned from Arizona, and gave us this perspective on the recent sweat lodge tragedy.
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com

Allegiant Air Bounces Mom and Unruly Kids Off Flight
On one hand you want to say something like "other people also paid for the flight, and they’re entitled to a decent amount of comfort and quiet." On the other hand you’ve got "well do you just expect every parent of every toddler to not travel any more?" There’s definitely an argument that most travelers in most circumstances should just put on their noise-canceling headphones and deal.
http://www.jaunted.com

Dr. 90210 To The Rescue On Newark-Bound Flight
Pretend for a moment that you fall suddenly ill on a coast-to-coast flight, so ill that the flight crew asks over the PA system for any medical personnel to come and help. A doctor is located, and just when you being to hope that everything will be okay, the man pictured above shows up—a reality show plastic surgeon. Sure, Dr. Robert Rey is trained in medicine, but you’re not exactly having a breast lift mid-flight.
http://www.jaunted.com

People traveling less often, spending less
Forty-five percent of U.S. consumers will take a vacation or leisure trip between Thanksgiving and March that involves paying for overnight accommodations.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com

Relics Recovered: A Pair of World-Class Climbers Goes Where Archaeologists Can’t
Last summer, the seven-time Everest summiter co-led a National Geographic expedition to Mustang, in north-central Nepal, to explore mysterious man-made cave systems carved 700 feet high into the cliffsides.
http://ngadventure.typepad.com

Bowermaster’s Adventures — Conservation International on the Galapagos Islands
Fernando Ortiz grew up on mainland Ecuador and has lived in the Galapagos the past twenty years. His career path has led him from tour guide to dive guide and eventually dive company manager. Along the route he decided that talking to tourists about conservation was not enough, so he made the leap to fulltime environmentalist.
http://www.gadling.com

Galley Gossip: 5 tips for getting through airport security quickly
With Thanksgiving fast approaching and Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year’s following right behind it, more people than ever will be flying in the upcoming weeks. That means only one thing. Holiday travelers will soon be taking over the airports.
http://www.gadling.com

‘Unruly’ Scot arrested in Boston after allegedly forcing trans-Atlantic flight to divert
A US Airways flight from Philadelphia to London made an unscheduled stop in Boston last night after the cockpit crew became concerned about an …
http://blogs.usatoday.com