March 10, 2012 – Hour 1

The president of the Panama City Beach Convention & Visitors’ Bureau, Dan Rowe, reports during Rudy’s travel news segment on the resort city’s bikini parade on the beach that just made the Guinness Book of Records; Seth Kugel, the “Frugal Traveler” columnist for the New York Times, explains how to find less expensive international tickets by finding travel agents who serve an ethnic community and who often receive deeply discounted tickets from airlines–how does $480 RT between NYC and Croatia sound from an Astoria, Queens travel agency sound compared to a $2,923 ticket for the same trip quoted on Travelocity? And it’s prime whale-watching time in Baja, CA, says Emily Evans, an outdoor environmental educator. For decades, the doorman at the Hyatt Regency Tampa, Antonio de Sousa, hasn’t missed a single day of work, and he explains how he’s managed that. Plus: Rudy’s Deals of the Week.