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Global advice: Traveling abroad with a weak dollar

If you have a growing concern about our weak dollar and it what it means to your travel budget, here are some recent resources to help you plan for your next trip.

* Profit From The Weak U.S. Dollar With Currency Plays And Other Strategies [The Digerati Life]
This discusses the pros and cons of having a weak dollar.

* Six Travel Havens Immune to the Weak Dollar [U.S. News & World Report]
Six destination suggestions that won’t make you go broke

* 2007 Weak Dollar Travel Advice [Tim Leffel's Cheapest Destinations]
Grasping the right attitude before selecting destination.

* Interactive Currency Table [XE.com]
Create a cross-table and check current or historical rates

Have the recent exchange rates kept you from traveling? Share your tips on how you make your travel dollars stretch.

Related Los Angeles Times links:

Summer vacations: Down(sized) but not out
Rising prices keeping vacationers closer to home
Places where a buck still goes a long way

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 11:45 am by Jen Leo and is filed under Business Travel, Frequent Flier, Global, News, Tips & Advice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

One Comment on “Global advice: Traveling abroad with a weak dollar”

Rick Burke Says:
August 16th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
My first trip to Australia in early 2001, our dollar was worth 52c to the Australian dollar, and last week the Aussie dollar hit a high of 89c. With our dollar down a whopping 42% in seven years, I have changed the way that I travel. I use to stay only in hotels in Australia, but now I save money by staying in hostels. They are usually less then half of the cost, and many have private bathrooms and common areas. I also no longer rent a car, but use very good public transport in Australia. Riding public transport is not anywhere near as scary as it is here fortunately. These are the tips that I recommend to help compensate for our falling dollar abroad. Cheers.