Travel
I love to travel, and when I travel the mindset is one of awareness and respect of this new environment that, I am about engage. A  significant reason urging us to spend time, money and energy for traveling is curiosity. We travel to know more, we travel to meet new people, and we travel to understand cultures, to conduct business meetings and bridge the gap of communication for achieving all these goals you must have the right behavior and ask the right questions.

Asking the right questions is by far your most important task as a professional business traveler / tourist. Know and understand your rights as a traveler, and make your journey that much more interesting. The more questions you ask, the more travel wise you become. Always urge yourself to become affiliated with your end destination, take the time to have a brief overview of the country’s customs and culture. If in doubt always refer to your friendly travel professional to guide you the proper literature that may ease those nagging questions that threaten to burn a hole a back of your head.  On that note let the travel Myth buster wave her magic wand and wish those myths away.

Travel Myths
Although we can’t tell for certain whether the Ness monster lurks in the waters of Scotland, there are some myths about which our team of travel gurus is suitably enlightened. A number of prevalent tall tales, which relate to everything from transportation expenses to health to hotels, have confused thousands of travelers as the stories circulate like stale cabin air on blogs and boards. Want the truth? We’ve created a list of common travel yarns and broken down which “facts” are really fictions.

Weekend stays are more expensive than weekday stays.
Most travelers are working zombies with jobs during the week, which makes weekend travel precious and pricey, thanks to a universal surge of travelers on Saturdays and Sundays. But, contrary to popular belief, weekend lodging is not always more expensive than a weekday stay. Although B&B’s and hotels that see a lot of leisure travelers may have higher weekend rates, hotels that cater largely to business travelers often offer good weekend discounts, as business travel guests proliferate during the week and weekends are less busy at these hotels.

Cruises will make you fat.
Many active travelers think of cruises as floating fat machines. They assume that cruising involves huge buffets and hours of sedentary activity on beaches and lounge chairs. While this may be true on some ships, a recent trend in the industry has brought healthy eating and exercise to the forefront of the cruising lifestyle.

Slimming innovations in the cruise world include low-calorie menu options, sushi bars, upgraded gyms and ultra-active excursions. Celebrity Cruises has free-standing Spa Cafes that dish up delicious low-cal treats like crunchy raw veggies and sushi. Disney Cruise Line offers outdoor dance parties to get the whole family up and moving. And Carnival Cruises has special spa cabins that include unlimited access to gym and spa facilities (at a price, of course). Plus, smaller cruise lines like the Starlight Sinfonia Cruises offer regional cuisine and unique active excursions and the all night dance parties are a definite yes to burn away those extra calories

The Bottom Line: The cruise industry has moved toward health and wellness in recent years. Cruising won’t make you fat – that is, unless you choose to actually eat all you can eat at the buffet.

Recirculated cabin air on planes will make you sick.
Some planes recirculate cabin air through a ventilation system instead of pumping in fresh air (the former is cheaper than the latter), and many travelers fear that recirculated air will make them sick. However, a study conducted by the US University , which involved over 1,000 passengers, revealed that recirculated cabin air does not increase passengers’ risk of catching colds.

However, the study also showed that air travelers do catch more colds than the average person — 19 percent of passengers who flew on the planes with recirculated air caught colds and 21 percent of passengers on planes that use fresh air got sick, compared with three percent of non-travelers. Dry air and a proliferation of germs in a small space are probably what cause passengers to get sick, so using a hand sanitizer, taking vitamins and drinking plenty of fluids while onboard is a good idea.

The Bottom Line: Recirculated cabin air does not make passengers sick, although those who fly are more likely to catch a cold than those who don’t.
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