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ecoXplorer is your award-winning guide to green travel, green cars, and saving the green in your wallet on both.

ecoXplorer is edited by Evelyn Kanter, a professional journalist with more than two decades of experience as magazine and newspaper writer and photographer, radio and television news producer and reporter, and guidebook author and editor -- all focusing on travel, automotive, lifestyle, the environment, and your rights as a consumer.

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Top ten free apps for international travel

Free apps for international travel help you find free wi-fi, cheap gas, even free bathrooms

These free, useful travel smartphone apps will help you check your packing list, find Wi-Fi, translate important phrases, coordinate your travel itinerary, call home, even find a bathroom when you travel overseas.  And did I say they are [...]

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Contests and sweepstakes for free vacations to enter now

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by Evelyn Kanter

Gas prices are up about $1 per gallon from last year, and according to the AAA annual leisure travel survey, that’s cramping our travel plans.  Airfares cost more, and it’s tougher than ever to use your frequent flyer miles.  But you still want [...]

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Family travel deals and discounts to extend your vacation budget

Current travel deals for couples and families include cruises and all-inclusive resorts

Hotel prices and airline and cruise fares usually go up as the peak summer vacation months approach.  But there are plenty of travel deals to book now to help you stretch your family travel budget for now through fall 2011.

Cruise [...]

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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.

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Budget Travel Deals and Discounts for Spring Break and Beyond

Celebrate spring with these budget travel discounts and bargains to the Caribbean.  Some of these travel deals can be booked now for travel later this year, others are for spring only.

Barbados –Get one night free on a five-night stay, or two nights free on a seven-night stay, with the Take Me to Barbados [...]

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Tips for Buying Travel Insurance: Never Leave Home Without It

Buy travel insurance to protect you on long or distant trips. Photo of Evelyn Kanter in Luxor, Egypt by Robert Holmes.

The current political turmoil in Egypt, blizzards and snowstorms that shut down airports in winter, hurricanes that shut down airports in summer and fall are all reasons to have travel insurance.  Travel [...]

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Budget Travel Deals from Hotels, Airlines

Take advantage of these travel deals and bargains to save money on your next vacation or getaway, whether you are heading to the beach or the ski slopes.

Choice Hotels International is offering triple points on their membership rewards program for qualifying stays, through March 2, 2011.  You have to be a member of [...]

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Budget Travel Hotel Deals for Early 2011

Sometimes, green travel means saving the green in your wallet.  Here are some deals, discounts and other special offers  will help stretch your travel budget –

$20.11 hotel room at Red Roof Hotels — Whether you’ve been naughty or nice, Red Roof is offering all guests its nicest price ever with a  $20.11 rate [...]

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