{"id":41423,"date":"2023-08-10T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=41423"},"modified":"2023-08-03T14:44:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T21:44:45","slug":"tracking-luggage-cheap-money-transfers-adventure-tours-snapshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/tracking-luggage-cheap-money-transfers-adventure-tours-snapshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Luggage\/Cheap Money Transfers\/Adventure Tours Snapshot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/cbjyU?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Better Life for Half the Price<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The World\u2019s Cheapest Destinations<\/em>. See\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nomadico.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">past editions here,<\/a>\u00a0where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Your Own Luggage Trackers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the worst anxiety-producing situations in travel is standing by the luggage carousel and not seeing your checked bag showing up. I recently found the American Air app tracker to be close to worthless and many travelers are looking to put the tracking into their own hands.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/EBzHkjz\">AirTags<\/a>&nbsp;for Apple devices are the best-known for this, but for Android users check into&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/BMjF\">Tile Mate<\/a>&nbsp;or the distant third choice&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/zRDk5\">Chipolo One<\/a>. (You can also use these to find your lost keys!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Get Wise for Cheaper $ Transfers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The company formerly known as Transferwise offers a much cheaper way to send or receive business payments than Paypal, Revolut, and other high-fee services. If both parties are fully registered, with banks connected, it can be less than a buck to do a wire transfer and I seldom pay more than $4. They support multiple currencies and offer the actual exchange rate instead of a marked down\/up one like Paypal does. There have been some notable holes in the market where it wasn&#8217;t available, but this week they announced that they&#8217;re now available in Norway, Spain, and Bulgaria.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wise.com\/invite\/dic\/timothyl442\">Sign up here<\/a>&nbsp;for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Buying Citizenship<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We noted a while back that Ireland and Portugal had both scrapped their \u201cGolden Visa\u201d program whereby wealthy aspirants could gain citizenship just by parting with enough of their money.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/money\/23762537\/golden-passports-wealthy-explained\">This detailed article<\/a>&nbsp;dives into the practice and notes that 22 nations still offer some kind of scheme, however, with price tags ranging from $100K to a million bucks. If you\u2019ve got that kind of cash sitting around, follow that link to read about St. Kitts, Jordan, Turkey, Austria, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Adventure Tour Insights<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Adventure Travel Trade Association has released its annual survey snapshot for a state of the industry overview. Business is about back to pre-pandemic levels, 84% of participants are seeing an increase in international travel, and hiking\/trekking\/ walking trips are the most popular overall. How much do people spend? The average 8-day organized tour price is $3,000 and a healthy 76% of that is going to local suppliers.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/learn.adventuretravel.biz\/research\/2023-adventure-travel-industry-snapshot\">See the full report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #64<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2385],"tags":[2386],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41424,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41423\/revisions\/41424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}