We’ve wanted to travel to New Zealand ever since Kozyndan gave us a glimpse of Muriwai Beach. For the second year in a row, readers of Wanderlust – a UK based travel publication – voted it as the Top Country to visit. The magazine claims that New Zealand’s growing popularity as a filming location has helped raise their profile as a must-see destination and is consistently drawing visitors – especially when there are flight deals like this one. If you’re interested in seeing New Zealand, now is a good time.

In other news, today’s travel briefing highlights Germany’s Airport Strikes, Jet Lag Prevention, The New Yorker’s Spotlight of Lesser Known Music Venues and Virgin Atlantic’s Move for Green. Click Read More for additional information…

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Written by James Oyedijo: Social networking sites have proven to be more than just a fad. They’ve become increasingly legitimate forms of communication – connecting people in strange, unthinkable ways. Enter the Couch Surfing Project; it’s a hospitality exchange network. Members alternate roles of host and surfer. Hosts can offer the possibility of accommodation, while surfers search for and request accommodation.

Couch Surfing may seem like something for an extremely adventurous traveler, but the organization goes out of its way to ensure security and trust. Members are encouraged to add personal references and other forms of verification to their profile pages. This added layer of security appears to encourage enrollment. Recently the site recorded 353,910 successful surf or host experiences and 442,974 friendships created. That’s pretty impressive.

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Experience driven photography makes us want to travel. Open the pages of Everywhere Magazine and you’ll feel like you’ve been to a hundred places and need to go to a hundred more. From the mind-labs of 8020, the new travel magazine delivers. Their innovative concept of building a magazine completely around the photo submissions of their readers is awesome. Like their tag line – Travel is all around you – imagine millions of photographers around the world capturing unique moments and delivering them to you in one well executed publication. That is Everywhere Magazine. Click “Read More” for additional photos and information.

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