{"id":43405,"date":"2024-12-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=43405"},"modified":"2024-12-19T15:55:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:55:31","slug":"small-travel-items-nomad-cities-past-years-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/small-travel-items-nomad-cities-past-years-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Travel Items\/Nomad Cities\/Past Year&#8217;s Trends"},"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>Stocking Stuffers for Travelers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve got a budding traveler in the house you\u2019ll be in this season, I\u2019ve got a few suggestions for stocking stuffers that will actually be appreciated. The ideal item is something that\u2019s small, easy to pack, and is generic enough that it isn\u2019t impacted by the recipient\u2019s personal style preferences. Some items we\u2019ve covered that fit the bill are an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/ijRIT0\">indestructible spork<\/a>, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/8wsWx\">retractable luggage lock<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/RnIlo\">Sugru bonding fixer<\/a>, or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/VyFY\">reusable gear ties<\/a>&nbsp;from Nite Ize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>A New Nomad Cities Site<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Add&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/roamrank.com\/\">RoamRank<\/a>&nbsp;to the list of sites crawling the web to get data on where digital nomads should go live. It only took me 20 seconds to spot some errors: the word \u201caccrurate\u201d when talking about their data sets and the \u201cplaces where weed is legal\u201d having several where it\u2019s really not. But the costs of living are fairly close to the reality I\u2019ve seen lately in Bangkok ($1,496 monthly), Barcelona ($2,026), and Prague ($1,707), though Budapest is definitely more expensive than Sofia, which they have about equal.&nbsp;<em>&#8211; submitted by Mark F. of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.recomendo.com\/\">Recomendo<\/a>z<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Norse Atlantic Now on Kayak and Skyscanner<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Budget airlines crossing an ocean are rare since few of them last, but Norse Atlantic is still hanging in there, flying between five cities in the USA and seven in Europe, plus a couple of routes to Bangkok and Cape Town. You wouldn\u2019t discover any of that without going to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/flynorse.com\/en-US\/experience\/where-we-fly\">their website<\/a>&nbsp;before, but now they\u2019re in the back-end booking system Sabre, which means they\u2019ll show up in regular flight searches from now on, in places like Kayak and Skyscanner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Travel Trends from 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Travel Pulse&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelpulse.com\/news\/features\/5-surprising-travel-industry-trends-that-emerged-in-2024\">reported on a study<\/a>&nbsp;from a travel insurance company with trends they saw this past year, based on data from all the policies purchased. Insurance claims were way up, first of all, with flight cancellations being the #1 culprit. Other notes: boomers took 39% of all trips, a third of travelers opted for a cruise, and \u201caverage trip cost for Americans in 2024 was $5,861, up 25% from 2023.\u201d For an average vacation of 17 days though, which seems really long for Americans. It looks like the people buying travel insurance the most are the ones going on really long cruises\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #136<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"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\/43405"}],"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\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43406,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43405\/revisions\/43406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}