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Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the — holy cow! — 500th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine. 

Back when ITN’s original publisher, the late Armond Noble, conceived of this publication, there was nothing like it. His idea? Provide a forum in which people who are paying for their own air tickets, tours and hotel rooms can report candidly on their experiences — telling both the good and the bad — and only destinations outside of the USA would be covered.

To introduce ITN to the world, Armond didn’t send out promotional...

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 441st issue of your foreign-travel magazine, the one you can help write.

A heads up — airlines are introducing baggage-policy changes that you need to be aware of.

According to new rules announced in January by the US Department of Transportation, as of June 2012, airlines in the US must disclose all fees at the time of ticket purchase, whether the purchase is done in person or online. Also, when a single-ticket itinerary involves more than one airline, the policies, baggage fees and baggage allowances (limits on bags’...

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 493rd issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine, where you and your fellow subscribers provide the bulk of the information simply by telling us where you’ve been and what you did and saw.

With this issue, we begin our 42nd year of publishing ITN. All of us thank all of you for subscribing, sending in trip reports/articles/photos, patronizing any of our advertisers or just spreading the word about this magazine. While many other travel publications have come and gone in the decades since our first issue, ITN is still getting mailed...