How to Handle Jet Lag, According to Very Frequent Travelers

While applying for a new credit card is typically the fastest and easiest way to rack up a meaningful number of points and miles, sometimes the first welcome offer you see for a given card isn't always the best.

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Racheli Evanson had a magical childhood. She grew up on Turtle Island in Fiji, which was immortalized in popular culture when it appeared in the 1980 Brooke Shields film Blue Lagoon. Racheli’s American father, Richard, purchased the island in 1972 and turned it into a private resort, where Racheli, her siblings, and her Fijian mother lived until she left to attend boarding school in Australia. Now living in Brisbane with her partner Will Perrins, an Australian in industrial property development, she works remotely for the resort, and the couple has traveled there many times. So there was only one place where Will wanted to propose—and only one destination where they knew they’d marry.

If you're a regular TPG reader, you know we believe that the best use of hotel points is for hotel stays — other uses are almost always a bad idea. This is because you typically lose value on your hotel points when you redeem them for other things outside of booking a hotel.

Social media icon Brooklyn Peltz Beckham, a photographer and chef who also happens to be the son of a Spice Girl and one of the world's most famous soccer players (you know, Victoria and David Beckham), wants you to take a trip to New York City.

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American Express and Avios have teamed up to make Membership Rewards even more rewarding.

My oldest son has a lot of big dreams.

Earlier this year, Air France-KLM spoke out about the challenges the airline faced in reinstating flights between Europe and China to what they were pre-pandemic. 

After 15 years without a recession (ex-Covid), Friday’s jobs report has sent U.S. markets into a freefall and has a lot of people whispering the R-word. Here’s what’s going on and what it means for the travel industry.

If you want solid value from your Amex points, transferring them to partner hotel or airline loyalty programs is often your best bet.

For many, the last full month of summer—that means August here in the United States—makes way for one more family getaway before school starts. Otherwise, you might sneak in a cheeky goodbye-to-summer barbecue; don’t get too smug when you tell everyone how much money you saved by using points and miles this season. (Or maybe do. Be a good friend. Teach them our ways of traveling with points and miles.)