I recently read an article about how bloggers are changing the travel industry for the better. Many of us who write about travel, like to express our opinion on places we have visited Sometimes I review hotels I have stayed in and give my personal opinion about my experience in that particular hotel. This might seem something insignificant as it is just my personal opinion, yet the article mentions that nowadays executives from major hotel chains and other travel related business are paying more attention to what bloggers say about their business.
In my case, although I haven had any major issue that has been resolved thanks to an entry in my blog, I have received a couple of emails from large companies asking me to correct something I wrote about them in one of my blog entries. If I was wrong about what I wrote, I do correct the entry and post the right information.
For me, this blog is more about sharing my passion for traveling than trying to fix the industry, but I do not mind giving people advice on how to solve issues they might encountered on a hotel or other places.
For most of us, traveling is a pleasure and our opinion should count on how the travel industry conduct its business, after all they wouldn’t be here if it wouldn’t for all of us who love to travel.
If any of your grandparents came from Spain between 1930 and 1956, chances are you could apply to become a citizen of Spain and have dual nationality. On December of last year, a new law called “Ley de la Memoria Histórica” or “Historic Memory Law” became effective in Spain, giving the possibility to grandchildren of Spaniards who migrated to the US and other countries during Franco’s dictatorship to apply and obtain Spanish citizenship.
Why would you want to do that? For many reasons. If you become a Spanish citizen you will automatically become a member of the European Union, which in turns gives you all the benefits that comes with it, such the rights to live, work and study in any EU country (in many EU countries the education is free or heavily subsidized by the government) .
But also having a dual citizenship is good for travelers. For example, the EU has very specific laws protecting travelers. If you are denied boarding, your flight was cancelled, you experienced long delays or your baggage was lost, you may be entitled to compensation under EU law and you can complain to the relevant enforcement body. Also when traveling within the EU, if you suddenly fall ill or have an accident in another EU country, you (and your family) are entitled to immediate healthcare there.
Vacations are supposed to be fun, but if by any chance you pick one of these 10 cities to visit, you’ll find yourself with very little to do and a lot of time to kill.
Using media reports from several sources, Forbes Magazine picked the top 10 more boring cities in the US. The cities were picked because of lack of news from those cities. In other words, nothing happen that was newsworthy in any of these towns.
I am not sure if this type of evaluation is valid, but at least it is fun to read.
Here there are
#1 Chula Vista, Calif. Population: 217,478
The midway point between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, rarely makes national news, but when it does, it’s often in stories about the region’s border tensions. How many people even knew Chula Vista was one of the country’s 100 largest cities?
#2 Hialeah, Fla.
Population: 212,217
Hialeah, in the Miami metropolitan area, barely exists as an independent city in the eyes of the national media. Many stories featuring an appearance of Hialeah discussed the impact of the city’s Cuban-American population on the presidential election in Florida
If any of your grandparents came from Spain between 1930 and 1956, chances are you could apply to become a citizen of Spain and have dual nationality. On December of last year, a new law called “Ley de la Memoria Histórica” or “Historic Memory Law” became effective in Spain, giving the possibility to grandchildren of Spaniards who migrated to the US and other countries during