Prevent the airlines from losing your luggage when you travel
(ContentDesk) April 10, 2006 -- Airlines around the globe mishandled about 1 percent of the 3 billion bags checked last year. Airlines in the U.S. alone lost 10,000 pieces of luggage a day in 2005. Although airlines claim to return roughly 98% of lost luggage within a few hours to a few days, it makes traveling, and more importantly, enjoying your vacation, difficult.
So, what can travelers do to avoid lost luggage? Tim Jacobsen, Vice President of Luggage Online along with Brooke Dowd, Editor of travel blog Wellpacked.com, offer tips and expert advice.
Dowd says that the best solution would be to carry on your luggage. But, she explains, with carry on luggage restrictions down to 45 maximum linear inches, for most travelers it is nearly impossible to carry on enough, even for a long weekend getaway. Tim Jacobsen offers the simplest solution, Ship it!
UPS and FedEx are more reliable than the airlines, and they have much better tracking technology in place. Here are a few tips to try and avoid lost luggage dilemmas:????Have your luggage shipped directly to your destination:
For a fee, there are many services out there that will ship your luggage directly
to your destination, cutting out the airlines all together.
????Use a Global Tracking service such as http://www.globalbagtag.com , a unique item retrieval service enabling you to register your valuable items on a secure database.????Book direct flights. Connections and extra flights increase your chances of lost luggage.????Remove any old airline stickers from your luggage.
You dont want there to be any confusion about your bags destination.????Arrive early.
Checking in at the last minute can be the cause of your luggage being lost.????Make sure the person who checks your baggage attaches the correct destination to every bag, and get a claim ticket for each. ????Make your luggage stand out.
There is a sea of Black luggage out there and if yours is Black too, its that much more difficult to find. Buy colorful luggage or use yarn, tape, neon luggage tags, or bright straps to make it more noticeable.????Put your name on the outside and inside of every bag. Better yet, if you can, place an itinerary of your trip inside your bag.
This will make it easier for the airline to locate you.????Sounds simple, but pack your valuables in your carry on. Expensive electronics and jewelry are more likely to be stolen than your socks and underwear.
And if the entire case is stolen, at least you still have your valuables.????Travel insurance is always a good idea, and a better way to guarantee that youll recoup your losses. You should also note that if your bag is not on the carousel, wait around. Frequently, bags that dont make the right flight end up on the airlines next flight.
If all else fails and your luggage is lost, be sure to file a complaint with your airline immediately.
Some airlines will only have a small window of time for filing one. If youre still feeling as lost as your poor luggage, write or call:DOT Aviation Consumer Protection400 Seventh Street, SW #4107Washington, DC 20590(202) 366 4000http://airconsumer.ost.dot.gov/.
Jump Bounce Boing Fun Center Now Open in Ohio
(ContentDesk) February 8, 2006 -- This is the appropriately-named, new indoor fun center for children (up to age 12) in Powell, Ohio.
Jump Bounce Boing features giant inflatable play structures for open playtime and birthday parties.
Open Tuesday through Sunday, and some Monday school holidays, Jump Bounce Boing offers a new activity for stay-at-home parents and their young ones.
Is the weather not cooperating for outdoor fun?
Have a birthday coming up?
How about a mom's group playtime event?
"We are the perfect solution.
And unlike a lot of other fun centers, our doors are always open for walk-ins." says owner,
Alex Covert.
Located about 2 miles north of I-270 at 10630 Sawmill Road, Jump Bounce Boing is ideally situated.
Within a spacious 8,000 square feet building, Jump Bounce Boing contains a 40 foot obstacle course, a 17' tall slide, a dinosaur/palm tree/volcano bounce, and during the weekdays,...
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Multilingual SEO for world markets Part 1
Multilingual keyword research
So you've translated your website into German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French, Arabic, Portuguese and Chinese.
Now what?
Now you have to draw traffic to the newly translated sites.
There are many ways to draw traffic, but the search engines are just as important in German or Spanish as they are in English.
Surprisingly, SEO in Spanish, French, English, German...or any Roman alphabet language is not that different.
In this article, we will be dealing only with Roman alphabet languages.
The main thing is to be able to move around in the language...and if you are not fluent, make sure a translator cleans up any text edits without undoing the changes key to your multilingual SEO efforts.
Let's assume the original site is in English, the translation into French, for example, is already complete and you have a list of English search terms (keywords).
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Dyin' From Vacation
Dying From Vacation (From the book Spider's Night on the Boom)by www.abciowa.comMy parents visited from Oregon this summer, and we saw more of Iowa than we'd seen in all the years since our own arrival. It was a perfect excuse to visit places we'd been meaning to see, but somehow had never gotten to. But the pace began to take a toll on my kids and yesterday my son began to complain. In my "philosophical father" voice, I said, "Just relax and enjoy yourself. We're on vacation.""I can't," he lamented, "I'm DYING from vacation!"I instantly flashed back to my own childhood, and I understood exactly what he was saying.
There are times when every kid feels like he's dying from vacation. For me, those times usually began about three days after school was out for the summer.I joyfully kicked off my shoes after I'd leaped off the school bus for the final time. Except for church and an occasional trip to town, those shoes and I would remain strangers the rest of the summer.During the first...
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The Merger is a New Indie Film; Buzz Worthy -- Upcoming Boston Private Screening For This Hilarious Comedy
(ContentDesk) July 17, 2006 -- First-time Boston filmmaker Keith Dorrington is fighting back against corporate America by bringing his true life events in the working world to the big screen. Dorrington, a 44-year-old sales rep who had a key idea stolen from his boss, was forced out of a major company during a hostile merger. Instead of harping on his unfortunate incident, he decided to return to his rolodex, cash in some old favors and round up a handful of old business associates to star in his new Independent Film "The Merger". "Did you ever run into people during your life and think that they belonged in the movies," said Dorrington.
"Well, I went back and found them." The film hits a major nerve for anyone who has ever fallen victim to outsourcing, corporate downsizing and global takeovers.
The Merger is about three diverse corporate businessmen who are tired of the daily grind of unanswered prayers and the mundane life of working America and it's disappointing realities....
The Merger is a New Indie Film; Buzz Worthy -- Upcoming Boston Private Screening For This Hilarious Comedy
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PerfectSoftware and NetBase Establish Stragetic Relationship
Perfect Software, a leading provider of Human Resource Management Systems, today announced it has formed a strategic relationship with NetBase Corporation., a leader in Time & Attendance software and services. Under the new association, each company will offer its software products to the other's customer base as additional applications to complement their existing solutions.The intuitive and flexible design of NetBase products will enable Perfect Software's clients to easily and seamlessly integrate...
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Prevent the airlines from losing your luggage when you travel