The cost of air travel is going up, and airlines are counting on us not to notice. I’m not talking about airfares, which have actually declined in real terms over the past decade, despite in...
I will be in Singapore soon -- first visit -- with only a little bit of spare time but I'd like to see and learn and do some worthwhile things. Suggestions? Many thanks in advance. The post You...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/06/your-singapore-suggestions-please/
Thanks to those who participated in our call to sound off about your favorite and least favorite airports. The results: At the top of the list of best airports, by a long way, was Amsterdam�...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/04/terminal-illness-readers-best-and-worst-airports/
We did a kayak/hike/swim tour with Kayak Wailua in Kauai, Hawaii, mainly because our guidebook said it was as good as other tours and less expensive. I think the book was correct, so I asked th...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/02/maximizing-profits-contract-out-or-diy/
ALAN PISARSKI , a transportation scholar featured in our podcast about the disappearance of hitchhiking , writes in to say: > My niece was back home in Milwaukee visiting family and ...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/01/tsa-chronicles-cream-cheese-edition/
The contest question was pretty simple: > I was in California the other day and saw someone doing something > that I haven’t seen done in a good while. I used to do�...
Is our need to travel innate? Last time, I wrote about the intriguing theory of the universal Travel Time Budget (TTB), which states that humans have a built-in travel clock. Perhaps a product of...
Call me a skeptic about the "peak oil" story. Human ingenuity has always found ways to produce more of, find substitutes for, or discover ways to do without a scarce resource when price signals t...
It doesn't take a Ph.D. in transportation to demonstrate that you go someplace because you want to get there. But it definitely helps to have a Ph.D. if you want to demonstrate that you get somep...
https://freakonomics.com/2010/12/do-we-travel-to-get-there-or-get-there-to-travel/
I spent three nights recently in the guest house at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. Very pleasant - and it was priced at $20/night (obviously heavily subsidized). In addition, however, there wa...
https://freakonomics.com/2010/12/changing-the-hotel-pricing-model/
A recent trip to Madrid included a lecture at the Universidad Europea de Madrid (which features, among other things, a dentistry school, at right). The best part was a short film that had been ma...
A new policy at Texas restricts faculty travel to dangerous countries. The post Restricting Faculty Travel Is a Bad Idea appeared first on Freakonomics .
https://freakonomics.com/2010/05/restricting-faculty-travel-is-a-bad-idea/
Dubner plans a trip to Madrid. The post Our Daily Bleg: What to Do in Madrid? appeared first on Freakonomics .
https://freakonomics.com/2010/05/our-daily-bleg-what-to-do-in-madrid/
Europe declares vacations a human right. The post An Important Human Right appeared first on Freakonomics .
I have a brief visit to Hong Kong soon (my first!) and would like to bring back some material for our Freakonomics Radio podcast. Suggestions? The post A Bleg: Ideas for Radio Hong Kong? appea...
https://freakonomics.com/2010/03/a-bleg-ideas-for-radio-hong-kong/
Indeed, the conclusion of the slogan "you've come a long way, baby" ironically demonstrates that women had not come quite as long a way as they might have hoped. Even now, important gender differ...
https://freakonomics.com/2009/11/sex-and-the-suv-men-women-and-travel-behavior/
A study finds that living abroad for long periods of time boosts creative thinking. The post You Should Get Out More appeared first on Freakonomics .
| North Korea launched a threatening-looking rocket over the weekend. It crashed harmlessly into the sea. Wonder what North Korea actually looks like on the ground these days? Two Austrians recen...
https://freakonomics.com/2009/04/the-hidden-side-of-rail-travel/
I just spent a great week in London with the family (see here, and here) and yes, I did run across a few pasties, including these, in the breathtaking food halls at Harrods: I find it hard to bel...
My wife announced yesterday that she is "traveled out." I'm not surprised -- I am too: Since mid-August we've taken trips (mostly long weekends) to Istanbul, Munich, French Switzerland, northeast...