Jason Cochran

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As Las Vegas Tourism Craters, Resort Fees Are Waived at Some Hotels

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Jason Cochran

16 hours agoA casino on the Las Vegas strip has announced its ditching of fees, at a time when the country is experiencing a decline in international tourism. Resorts World Las Vegas posted on its social media pages earlier this week (June 20) that it would be dropping its resort fees through September 11. This …
It’s Time to Re-enact the French Revolution—Using a Free Walking Tour App by Paris! | Flipboard

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Jason Cochran

The Louvre’s closure is a warning sign for over-tourismThe iconic museum promptly shut its doors this week after crowds overwhelmed staff. The Louvre is one of the most visited tourist attractions in …
It’s Time to Re-enact the French Revolution—Using a Free Walking Tour…

1 week ago | frommers.com | Jason Cochran

The French have always been exceptionally talented at anticipating global appetites. They set the trends in high fashion and in wine. They were the first to send help to the North American colonists, helping them win U.S. independence. They even got the world to eat snails, for crying out loud—with no small assist from another great French idea, smothering everything in butter.
U.S. Senate to Force Sale of Millions of Acres of Publicly Owned…

1 week ago | frommers.com | Jason Cochran

The U.S. Senate is marking public lands to be pillaged, and preservation groups are sounding the alarm to call fans of American nature to urgent action. The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, chaired by Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, has released its additions to the Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill.
New Federal Junk Fee Rules Are in Effect: What to Look for, How to Report Violations

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Jason Cochran

3 hours ago ICE's cash crisis deepens amid immigration crackdown President Trump's immigration crackdown is burning through cash so quickly that the agency charged with arresting, detaining and removing … 7 hours ago Spaniards turn water pistols on visitors to protest mass tourism BARCELONA, Spain — Protesters used water pistols against unsuspecting tourists in Barcelona and on the Spanish island of Mallorca on Sunday as demonstrators marched to demand a rethink of an economic model they...
New Federal Junk Fee Rules Are in Effect: What to Look for, How to…

1 week ago | frommers.com | Jason Cochran

Dragon Images / ShutterstockAll right, savvy shoppers. It's been a month since the new federal rules about fee disclosures have kicked in. Are you seeing a difference in your online shopping? It's not often that the federal government of the United States does something to protect and inform consumers in these times. But last year a new set of rules about deceptive fees was adopted by the Federal Trade Commission, and the deadline for the rules to take effect passed on May 12, 2025.
Your Personal Airline Data Is Secretly Being Sold to U.S. Homeland Security

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Jason Cochran

7 hours agoNew angle shows final moments of Air India flight from take-off to crashA new angle shows the final moments - from take-off to crash - of the doomed Air India flight on its way to London, Gatwick. CCTV footage shows the Boeing 787 Dreamliner leaving the runway at Ahmedabad Airport on Thursday (12 June) before it begins descending rapidly in its nose-up take-off angle. Moments later the plane, with 240 people onboard, erupted into a huge fireball as it crashed into a residential area.
Your Personal Airline Data Is Secretly Being Sold to U.S. Homeland…

2 weeks ago | frommers.com | Jason Cochran

Perhaps it surprises nobody that in this age of meaningless digital privacy protections, the U.S. government has been secretly buying up data about airline passengers. But that's what was confirmed by a report in Wired yesterday.
Disney's Iconic Riverboat and Island Will Be Removed Forever As of July 7

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Jason Cochran

9 hours agoJoanna Miller said the theme park's method of celebrating the American icon makes "no sense" and comes off as "empty of a soul." Joanna Miller, Walt Disney’s granddaughter, has doubled down on her criticism of Disneyland as it plans to debut an audio-animatronic version of her grandfather at a new …
Disney's Iconic Riverboat and Island Will Be Removed Forever As of…

3 weeks ago | frommers.com | Jason Cochran

Castle in the middle. Railroad traipsing around. Man-made "mountains" concealing family rides. A meandering waterway through an American frontier landscape. The periodic hoot of a steamboat whistle. That's the formula that made Disney parks great. It's repeated at Disneyland in California, Magic Kingdom in Florida, Disneyland Paris, and Tokyo Disneyland—they all establish and celebrate the mythology of America with the same building blocks of theme park iconography. Well, they were the formula.