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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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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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Eco-Friendly Green Football Stadiums Help Environment

Top ten eco-friendly green football stadiums include site of Super Bowl LXV

The real winner of Super Bowl XLV was the environment, because Cowboys Stadium is one of the most environmentally friendly stadiums in the USA.  It’s in the top five of a list of ten compiled by SunRun, which provides and installs [...]

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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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Honoring 50th Anniversary of JFK Inaugural with Volunteer Travel

JFK portrait courtesy of Smithsonian Institution

Combining travel with volunteer work is one of the fastest-growing segments of the travel industry.  So much that there’s even a new word for it — volontourism.  It ranges from emergency help for a community, such as cleaning beaches on the Gulf Coast and clearing rubble in [...]

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Contests to Win Trips to NASCAR, Dream Cruises

These three Tuesday Travel Deals are all contests to win free vacations.

Win a trip for two to the NASCAR races in Daytona, Florida on February 20, 2011.  The winner gets two passes for the auto race at Daytona Speedway, two VIP Garage Credentials with Honorary Pit Crew Position, a meeting with legendary NASCAR [...]

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January is Learn to Ski or Snowboard Month

January is Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month. Resorts in 34 states are participating with discounted lessons.

It will cost you less to play in the snow in January.  Nearly 100 top ski and snowboard resorts in 34 states are offering free or discounted ski and snowboard lessons  during the annual Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month.

The theme of the 2011 program is “Humans Were Never Meant to Hibernate’.   The overall theme theme for this national effort is to get children and adults outside this winter for fun and exercise on snow.  The program ambassadors  are Olympic Gold medal winner Bode Miller and ski icon Glenn Plake.

The National Ski Areas Association reports there were between ten and 12 million skiers and riders in the U.S. last year, and just under 60 million visits to ski resorts for skiing and snowboarding. And this season could be even better, considering the bounty of champagne powder that resorts received early in the season.

Virtually every resort in the United States is offering some kind of package for Learn to Ski or Snowboard month.  See the next page for state-by-state highlights, from New England to the Rockies and Sierras:

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Five Top Travel Apps for Safe Holiday Road Trips

The AAA estimates more than 92 million Americans will be on the road during the holiday period between December 23rd and January 2nd, 3.1% more than last year. There is a mind-boggling selection of iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry apps to download that will help make your driving and travel less stressful and perhaps [...]

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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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