Amateur Traveler episode 103. Today the Amateur Traveler goes to Baja California.

I got my bags back on a roll.

I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go.

Looking real good in my passport photo.

15 hour flight.

Oh, I don't think I'll ever be coming home.

You know I love it.

I got to see one more cathedral.

I got to sit in one more cafe.

I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe nights till the day.

Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.

I have three news stories for you today. The first one is bad news for Caribbean tourism but

possibly good news for you if you're looking for bargains. There has been a slump this year

in US travel to the Caribbean. Tourism marketers blame much of the slump on Western hemisphere. travel by air from the Caribbean, Mexico, Canada, and Bermuda.

Americans represent over half of all visitors across the Caribbean,

though to some destinations such as the Bahamas,

they account for more than 75% of overnight stays.

The new rules which led to lengthy

processing delays, quote, effectively shrunk our US market to a third of its usual

size, unquote. Jamaican tourism chief Basil Smith noted in a tourism department blog recently.

The second news story has to do traveler frustrations according to a survey that was

commissioned by the travel insurance provider access America, the top 10 things

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