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**Viator’s Video Team will be at NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences this Thursday and we want YOU to come!** In the next 24 hours, we’re giving away 3 pairs of tickets (6 tickets total) to NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences for this Thursday, March 29, 2012. We’re looking for fun, engaging [...]

Inspired by our recent 5 Things Travelers Really Don’t Want To Hear post, we asked our Facebook fans and Twitter followers what they thought was the worst phrase to hear while traveling. Here are the results!

Since the launch of our Win Your Dream Travel Job contest at the end of February, we’ve received dozens of amazing video submissions from people around the world wishing and hoping to be selected as one of the four Dream Travel Job finalist. Our moderation team has been watching, judging, and rating each and every entry video we’ve received. It was tough, but we’re very excited to be announcing the first of our four finalists today!

For our first Pinterest contest, we are giving away FIVE $100 gift certificates from Viator.com!

HURRY! For 3 days only, get 50% off a Las Vegas City Lights Helicopter Tour! This deal is only available for 3 days – so act now! You must book by March 3, 2011, to save 50%. This exclusive deal on a helicopter night flight over the Las Vegas Strip is available on ALL departure times and EVERY scheduled departure date now through June 30, 2011.

The second part of the 18th century was marked by a new style which overtook the previously popular Baroque style from the first half of the century. The difference was so striking, it seemed that all the new buildings were stripped of all the elaborate moldings and fancy sculptural decorations which were so characteristic to era of Elizabethan baroque. My previous article about the Smolny cathedral helps to elucidate the psychology and manifestation of suppressed alter ego of Elisabeth, who was real party animal during her reign.

While confidence is growing that Japan is now safe to visit, some travelers remain uncertain. Japan itself is keen to express that the country is back to normal and eager to welcome visitors to its many attractions that were unaffected by the disaster.

To celebrate the launch of our Win Your Dream Travel Job contest, we’re giving you 7% off Viator.com tours and activities!

It would have been unfair, prior to the rumblings over the last couple of years, to describe Christchurch, New Zealand as “sleepy”. But it was definitely free of the drama and devastation that the series of earthquakes, which began in September 2010 with a major repeat in February 2011, have brought to this beautiful South Island city. I visited a few weeks ago, and was struck by the placid resourcefulness of the city and its inhabitants, who seem to have accepted temblors as part of their lifestyle and are just getting on with things regardless.

Do you love to travel? Do you have an interest in videography? Want to spend 60 days this spring and summer traveling to some of the most popular destinations in Europe and North America? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Viator wants you for the travel experience of a lifetime! Wanted: [...]