tourism

Japan was one of the last countries to reopen after the Covid pandemic, in October, 2022. You may recall that people were in the midst of a travel frenzy of …

Airbnb has recently announced they plan to update their cancellation policy and we have to say this is a fair, pro-guest change. They’ve updated its Extenuating Circumstances Policy, including renaming …

Save for that one place that has a 7-star rating, hotels are generally graded on a 5-star rating system. Granted, the rating systems aren’t consistent throughout the world. (A project …

When travel geeks hear about a big, new, important hotel coming down the line, they often start to make immediate plans to stay there (or at least stop by), because …

Hi, travel friends and happy Saturday! Here’s a recap of what’s gone on at YMMV in the past few weeks. Some of our recent most-read posts have been: Is it …

Erick Tseng is a former Google executive, where, as the Lead Product Manager, he helped launch and grow Android. He then became a bigwig at Facebook; he was hired to …

As a company – any company – goes on, it changes. It can be as tiny as this blog (does anybody remember when we used to have our “Daily Deals?” …

Although some people say the first selfie occurred in the year 1839, the first modern day selfies that most people are familiar with (read: taken with a smart phone that …

I don’t know about you, but I find it kind of soothing to know that celebrities really ARE the same as you and me. There was a time when Shaq’s …

North Korea has been a quiet, keep-to-yourself country for decades. There are stories you’ll read on the internet about people visiting North Korea, usually in the demilitarized zone, the 148-mile-long …