Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 450th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine. 450. Wow! That’s 37½ years — without ever missing an issue. 

Let me take a moment to acknowledge some of the people responsible for producing this magazine.

The publisher, Armond Noble, and his staff were working on the fourth issue when he hired me in 1976, and I took over as the Editor two months later. Sadly, Armond died last year in February, but  ITN...

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 448th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine.

Mike Kalt wrote to us, “I am a longtime ITN subscriber, and I just started a travel-discussion group (CP Globetrotters) at the Carolina Preserve development in Cary, North Carolina. We have over 70 members in our group so far, and over 40 of them turned out for our first meeting.  

“One of the topics on the agenda was ‘What’s Your Favorite Travel Magazine...

Dear Globetrotter:

In a couple of recent issues, I wrote about some things to keep in mind when purchasing airline tickets for a multileg flight. Former ITN Contributing Editor Steve Venables of Woodland Travel (Woodland, CA; 530/662-5491) submitted the following advice: “Make certain to allow plenty of connection time between flights, and, if possible, find out the ‘on-time record’ of the first flight on your trip.

“A flight that is ‘on time’ is defined as one that operates...