[Many thanks to Laurie McAndish King who's letting us re-post her excellent sources of information about "Best Online Travel Resources."  This originally ran in both Examiner.com and on Laurie's own terrific website, Travel Writers News.] Best Online Travel Resources: Know Before You Go Laurie McAndish...

[Ginny Prior's article "Adding Animals to Vacation Accommodations" appeared in the Hill Newspapers in the East Bay and on contracostatimes.com on April 9, 2009] I’ve never understood the attraction of pet-friendly hotels. I go on vacation to get away from my pet. Like Ginny's cat, website editor...

Many thanks to Laurie McAndish King and her Travel Writers’ News for this information about Yapta, a website for tracking airline and hotel prices.  Their spiel is: Yapta is intended to help you get a handle on fluctuating travel prices so that you know when to “buy low.” Yapta conducts daily...

In case your next query is for about a story in Pakistan, you might want to attend this event offered by the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism: The Resurgence of al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan When: April 1, 2009, 12:00 pm — 2:00 pm Where: North Gate Library, Hearst at Euclid Avenue,...

Thanks to BATW Associate Member John Poimiroo for this: The Mono County Tourism Commission has a number of free admissions to the Los Angeles Times Travel & Adventure Show (Feb. 14-15, LA Convention Center) which it offers to travel or outdoor writers

Georgia Hesse speaks to BATW members (photos by John Montgomery) The witty, earnest, funny, practical, inspiring and petite, Georgia Hesse gave a talk at our BATW meeting Jan.17. Georgia was one of the original journalists to give birth to newspaper and magazine travel writing. Those were the “Glory...

Thanks to Karen Misuraca for forwarding information by Ben Sherwood in the Huffington Post about ways to improve your odds of surviving a plane crash: First, sit