Airline ticket prices will go up
More mergers are planned, which means a consolidation of routes, fewer seats and more expensive tickets. Northwest has merged with Delta, Continental with United, AirTran with Southwest and, US Airways with American. Experts say to expect fare increases of about 7 percent . But here comes the good news: A lot of air carriers, including American, United and Delta, are updating their older fleets. Among other improvements, the new planes have a lot more room for your carry-on luggage: American's Boeing 737-800s, replacements for the MD80s, have space for 48 more bags.
Hotels will 'pop up'
Pop-up hotels are accommodations quickly assembled and easily taken down or temporary hotels located in an existing building. They're created for a special event, such as a festival, or at a destination with a relatively short high season. While pop-up shops and even pop-up restaurants seem to be the domain of the in-the-know urban hipster, the hotel version is more inclusive and authentic not to mention affordable While some established hotels keep you at a distance from the locals, the pop-up hotel is meant to offer you a bed at the center of the action. These temporary digs are mostly found abroad. they've shown up everywhere from Cornwall, England, to Mykonos in Greece but the hope is to see a greater presence in the U.S. in 2013.
You'll find more ways to live like a local
If while traveling, your goal is to feel like a local, and a cookie-cutter hotel with no personality makes that really difficult. You can find unique places to stay, whether it's a room in someone's home, an apartment or even a treehouse or a castle. In world-class cities such as Paris, London and Rome, rooms are often exorbitantly expensive and tiny. You can rent an apartment at half the cost, with twice the space and a kitchen?
Airports will try to impress you
At New York LaGuardia, a tired food court formerly featuring bad Chinese and pizza by the slice now has a huge salad bar and refrigerated shelves stacked with hummus and carrots, fresh fruit and yogurt parfaits. The waiting area for flights now has seating zones to suit everyone's tastes, including comfy booths with tables and individual lamps, high stools at counters, and even a section with iPad rests at every seat. Other airports are sprucing up as well: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, Los Angeles International, Dallas-Fort Worth International and Las Vegas' McCarran International are all in the midst of multibillion-dollar improvements that include more airy and welcoming terminals and better dining and shopping options. Travelers may actually want to lengthen their time between connecting flights.
Move over, "George Washington Slept Here" in 2013 is all about Abe Lincoln. Movies have a way of shedding a new light on a destination, and what The Da Vinci Code was for Rome and The Lord of the Rings was for New Zealand, Steven Spielberg's award-winning Lincoln will be for Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky.
Richmond, Va.: The state capital (and former capital of the Confederacy) has a "Movie Trail" tour marking the sites where Lincoln was filmed, as well as places where the real Lincoln once visited.
Hodgenville, Ky.: Here you can visit the iconic cabin at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace, a National Historic Park, and 10 miles away see his rustic boyhood home in Knob Creek.
Gettysburg, Pa.: This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, which took place on the spot now known as Gettysburg National Military Park also the site of Lincoln's historic Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863.
Rio de Janeiro
With the World Cup in Brazil in the summer of 2014 and the Rio Summer Olympics on its heels in 2016, this city, which has always been a top destination, is set to become a tourism tour de force. But why wait? It's only going to get more expensive and more crowded, so this is the year to visit. From June 15–30, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) holds the Confederations Cup, a sort of a preview of the World Cup where you can experience "football" (as Brazilians call their first, second and third sport) without competing with the entire planet for tickets, hotel reservations and airline seats. Even if you can't get tickets to a game, you'll feel the excitement of soccer in the air while you see everything else that Rio has to offer.
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