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When Did Travel Become a Commodity?

When Did Travel Become a Commodity?

When did it stop being an experience and more of a package, a deal, a search result?

Travel has turned into an obsession for the cheapest airfare, cheapest hotel room and pretty much the lowest, cheapest  cost for anything and every thing related to travel.

Wasn't so long ago that airlines, the most commodified of the travel experience were sufficiently different from each other that you could them apart.


There were differences in food served, space between rows
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Summer Splash and SpongeBob Make Grand Cayman Grand

The Cayman Islands have come up with a popular, value-driven, summer program for families that’s fun and educational.
Appropriately dubbed the Cayman Summer Splash package, the program runs until September 6 and features a weekly appearance of everyone’s favorite squishy hero, Nickelodeon’s own SpongeBob SquarePants.
The highlights of the Summer Splash program include:
• Stay five nights, pay for 4 at participating hotels and condos. These are l
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Seduced By The Cayman Island Sisters




Seduced By The Cayman Islands


Most any novel or movie about corporate bad guys somehow always has shady types furtively wiring funds off shore to the Cayman Islands.

Truth is, the three islands that make up the Cayman archipelago are so much more than temples of high finance, regardless of John Gresham's books.

Little Cayman and Cayman Brac are specks of places about a 45 minute puddle jumping ride in a 12 seater that feels more like flying on an Avatar bird than a plane.

Little known, and less t
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