Showing posts with label travel articles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel articles. Show all posts

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Sample travel article: 3 Reasons Why You Should Book During Off Peak Season Holidays

 


3 Reasons Why You Should Book During Off Peak Season Holidays

Most people go on vacation during school breaks or in the summer. People would often go off to the beach, enjoy a long weekender or go out of town during these peak seasons. But during winter or rainy season, tourism is down. But don’t you know that scheduling your vacation during off peak season holidays also has some benefits? Here are three reasons why you should plan your getaway on months when tourism is dead.

  1. Discounts, promos and lower rates. During peak season, everything becomes expensive. Room rates, tour packages, transportation and even food prices shoot up because there are more people going on vacation during these seasons. But when it’s off peak, no one wants to go, so these businesses attract tourists by lowering their rates. They give discounts and promos so it’s more budget-friendly to plan your trip during off peak.

  2. Comfortable travel. Arranging your trip during off peak season holidays means less crowded airports, lighter traffic on the road, and more buses for travelling. There are also air and bus fare promos to encourage people to travel. It’s easy to book flights, hotels and rental cars as well.

  3. No crowd. You can enjoy your favorite activity without too many people waiting in line. Pools and beaches are not crowded, hotels are not fully-booked and you have plenty of space to move around. When there are few people, you can have privacy while enjoying your vacation. Off peak season holidays are perfect for people who want to avoid the summer crowd. It is also great for holding private get-togethers.

So bring out your calendar and check the dates perfect for your holiday. Because for every vacation, off peak season holidays or not, the most important thing is perfect planning so that you know what to expect and you know what to do. Nothing ruins a perfect vacation than unexpected chaos.




Friday, December 4, 2020

Sample Travel Article: Tourist Fees in Dubai Hotels Increase

 


Is Dubai Travel Getting More Expensive?

Planning to visit Dubai? Effective March 31, 2014, tourists staying in a variety of hotels will be charged an extra tourist fee of about $5 per room for every night they stay. This may not seem like a big deal for us, but for Dubai, the revenue generated will be used to fund the tourism industry.

So which hotels in Dubai will participate in this Tourist Dirham tax? Apparently, all hotels, vacation houses, bed and breakfasts, inns, apartments, and condo rentals are included.

Dorms and apartments are cheaper in Dubai, but hotels charge usually the same rates as here in the United States. For example, a dorm room may cost $27 per night while a budget price hotel can go from $50 to $100.

Some of the best hotels in Dubai (many of which have franchises all over the world) are: 

  • Fairmont Dubai 

  • Raffles Dubai 

  • Le Royal Meridien Beach Resort 

  • Atlantis The Palm 

  • Crowne Plaza at Festival City 

  • Dusit Thani 

  • Hilton Jumeirah Beach Resort 

  • Intercontinental Dubai 

  • Radisson Blu Hotel 


Most people travel to Dubai for the shopping. Dubai boasts of the largest shopping mall in the world, The Dubai Mall, consisting of over 1,200 stores with brand name products. The biggest shopping event is the Dubai Shopping Festival, which starts in January and ends in February. Despite prices being so low in many stores, haggling is common here.

Dubai is a destination not to be missed. It is by far the newest city with the biggest immigrant population. It is also home to the most magnificent infrastructures such as Burj Dubai, the Dubai Marina, and the Palm Islands, just to name a few. 


Marie Soleil authored hundreds of  articles for the Associated Content-Yahoo Voices (Yahoo Contributor Network) platform. 

Yahoo! Voices, formerly Associated Content (AC), was a division of Yahoo! that focused on online publishing. Yahoo! Voices distributed a large variety of writing through its website and content partners, including Yahoo! News. In early December 2011, its owners Yahoo! announced a major shakeup involving the introduction of a new service, Yahoo! Voices, which would replace the Associated Content site and take on the bulk of its content, while some 75,000 items would be retired under the new site's more stringent content submission rules. 


Friday, January 20, 2012

Travel Articles



Marie Soleil (pen name) authored hundreds of articles for the Associated Content-Yahoo Voices (Yahoo Contributor Network) platform. 

Browse through some of her works in the pdf files embedded below.
For collaboration, email marie @ globalguide.info.

 


Yahoo! Voices, formerly Associated Content (AC), was a division of Yahoo! that focused on online publishing. Yahoo! Voices distributed a large variety of writing through its website and content partners, including Yahoo! News. In early December 2011, its owners Yahoo! announced a major shakeup involving the introduction of a new service, Yahoo! Voices, which would replace the Associated Content site and take on the bulk of its content, while some 75,000 items would be retired under the new site's more stringent content submission rules.