I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo. Good.

Amateur Traveler, episode 154.

Today the amateur traveler has on the author of Immersion Travel USA.

We'll be talking about educational, volunteer, and other

immersive travel experiences today on the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into

the interview this week I did have two particular news stories that I wanted to

point out to you. The first one is an interesting one. A hotel in Turkey on the

Mediterranean coast has been having repeated problems with their male employees having affairs with foreign female guests

and so they have fired all their male employees and are going to an entirely female staff.

The other's top story, 40,000 British tourists were marooned around the globe by the collapse

of Britain's third largest holiday operator.

There was a huge airlift put on by the Civilian Aviation Authority

to bring most of them home again,

but some of them, for instance, 400 travelers

were effectively imprisoned in a departure lounge for 24 hours and nearly rioted in Cyprus.

So if you thought your holiday was bad, imagine the experience of finding out while on vacation that your operator has gone under

and you're not sure how to get home.

Hopefully your next holiday will be better than that.

For links to both of those stories as

well as links to United Airlines increasing their fees on baggage, air

candidate dropping their fees on baggage, check out the links in the show notes at amateur traveler.com.

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