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Smarter tips to be a smarter traveller

Over the next week, Darren Cronian's Travel Rants blog will be revealing ways to promote healthy and smarter travel for those of us who like to venture away from home, including 50 tips for travellers over a range of travel topics.

Travel Rants is a well-established blog which began in 2005 after Darren had a 'frustrating experience with a high street agent' and the site covers a wide range of issues and topics affecting travel consumers.

How not to look like a tourist

I like this feature written by Nick Trend on the Daily Telegraph's website, which is all about how to fit in, not look like a tourist and so make the most of your travel experience. You might wonder what the problem is with looking like a tourist, as one of the commentators to the article points out, and as Nick Trend states, in some circumstances it is not a problem at all.

However, there are definitely occasions where you can reap the most from a travel experience if you're not treated like a ship passing through the night - which is invariably what you are - and you can mingle into the crowd rather than stand out from it (wearing shorts and a rucksack).