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April 2016 issue | Appears on page 2

Frequent flyers and canceled-booking fees. Onsens ranked in Japan
By David Tykol

Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 482nd issue of ITN, your monthly foreign travel magazine. • We’re getting some informative emails and letters in response to our request ‘Tell us about a time when you submitted a claim — medical or nonmedical — to a travel insurance company and expected reimbursement but had your claim denied.’ We’re still accepting mail on that, as explained in the box on page 28. Since ITN is all about travelers getting advice and recommendations from other travelers,...

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March 2016 issue | Appears on page 2

Travel Risk Map 2016. Cruise ship vessel sanitation inspections
By David Tykol

Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 481st issue of your monthly foreign travel magazine. With this issue, we begin our 41st year of publication! Thank you, all of you — subscribers, advertisers, business associates and friends — who have made it possible for ITN to never miss a deadline. With your continued help, we’ll keep the travel news coming. • Here’s an information source that you might find of interest. A world map that shows travelers, at a glance, the levels of each and every nation’...

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February 2016 issue | Appears on page 2

TSA body-scanner policy change. Looking at city smog levels worldwide
By David Tykol

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 480th issue of your monthly foreign travel magazine.

Divide that number by 12 and you’ll see that, with this issue, ITN has been in publication for 40 years!

ITN depends on its subscribers, each of you, to write in about interesting places to visit, ways to travel more cost- or time-efficiently, things travelers should watch out for — whatever may interest people who travel anywhere outside of the US.

For submitting...

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January 2016 issue | Appears on page 2

Insidious ATM fraud. Manila airport alleged extortion scheme
By David Tykol

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 479th issue of your monthly foreign travel magazine.

 

Twelve days after 224 people were killed on a Russian passenger jet downed over Egypt on Oct. 31, 43 were killed in suicide bombings in a neighborhood in Lebanon, and the very next day the same terrorist group attacked in Paris, killing 130 people who were simply enjoying a Friday evening out. These were tragic crimes, and the grieving continues.

Paris’ being one of the...

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December 2015 issue | Appears on page 2

EU airlines' payouts for delays. Polio cases dwindling. Best airports for layovers
By David Tykol

Dear Globetrotter

Welcome to the 478th issue of your monthly foreign travel magazine.

Each month in this magazine, we present a number of articles and letters written by our subscribers, people who travel outside of the US for fun, adventure or just because. They share their findings here, where like-minded travelers are looking for recommendations, warnings or simply new ideas for places to visit.

We also have several longtime columnists who report on their travels and...

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November 2015 issue | Appears on page 2

Scams on hotel-booking-website users. Also, cruise ships and norovirus.
By David Tykol

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 477th issue of your monthly foreign travel magazine.

In ITN, we print letters and articles provided by our subscribers. 

After your next trip outside of the US, or if you’ve recently returned from one, write about anything other travelers might appreciate knowing about. A way to save money. A way to save time. A place with a warm welcome. Or maybe a site you would have preferred to avoid.

When you share your travel...

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November 2015 issue | Appears on page 2

Scams on hotel-booking-website users. Also, cruise ships and norovirus.
By David Tykol
Tibetan man making a spool of wool from yak hair (in China). Photo ©piccaya/123rf.com

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 477th issue of your monthly foreign travel magazine.

In ITN, we print letters and articles provided by our subscribers. 

After your next trip outside of the US, or if you’ve recently returned from one, write about anything other travelers might appreciate knowing about. A way to save money. A way to save time. A place with a warm welcome. Or maybe a site you would have preferred to avoid.

When you share your travel...

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October 2015 issue | Appears on page 2

Airbnb con artists warning. Also, a ruling on cruise lines and the disabled.
By David Tykol

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 476th issue of your foreign travel magazine. 

Each month we mail out a number of free sample copies. If you’re reading ITN for the first time, all you really need to know about this publication is that we cover destinations outside of the US, and, except for the rare Feature by a staffer or Contributing Editor, all of the Feature Articles and letters are written by our subscribers, people who enjoy traveling and want to share their...

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