RECONSIDER TRAVEL INSURANCE..IT IS NOT EXPENSIVE AND YOU NEVER KNOW…..

Travel insurance that safeguards a trip is a good idea for anyone, but even more so for families with young children.

When your kids are small, you never know what the day many bring: for example, chicken pox, the day before you’re leaving on a holiday.

Types of Travel Insurance

Trip Cancellation
If your seven-year-old gets chicken pox and you have to cancel your holiday, part or all of it may be non-refundable. Trip Cancellation Insurance will reimburse you for the non-refundable portions of your trip.

Trip Interruption
These policies reimburse you if your trip is cut short because one of the travelers has an accident or serious illness. You’re also protected if you have to fly home because of a serious illness, or death, in your immediate family.

Note:

• policies for these types of travel insurance must sometimes be purchased at the time you buy your air tickets, or within a few days of purchase
• trip interruption travel insurance is usually much cheaper than trip cancellation coverage
• Club Med guests are required to buy a “membership” when booking a holiday; the good news is that certain travel insurance protection is provided too

Single mother’s frustration with finding an agency to plan adequate trip led to her own business.

April 13
By Sheena Delaziosdelazio@timesleader.com
Staff Writer

DALLAS – With so many family vacation hotspots nearby, Kate Burnside recently decided she could use that to her advantage.

On March 26, Kate and her mother Daylene held a grand opening of their Web-based travel agency specializing in arranging getaways suited to families.

“I had the idea for Adventure Family Trips on the way home from a ski trip in 2008,” Kate Burnside said. “That idea became a reality as I decided to leave my job in pharmaceutical sales and start my own company.”

Adventure Family Trips specializes in organizing fun-filled family trips to local and regional attractions such as Big Boulder/Jack Frost and Sno Mountain.

“As a single mother of two young boys, I felt I needed to do something that would involve them and provide them with a better lifestyle,” Burnside, 38, said.

Daylene Burnside has extensive experience in the travel industry and was a national sales manager for a wholesale tour operator. Daylene and Kate also have skied a great deal in the northeastern and western United States.

“She’s been my mentor,” Kate said of her mother.

When planning a 2008 vacation with her sons, now 6 and 9 years old, Kate Burnside had difficulty finding a travel agency that could plan a trip for her and her children. She decided to take planning into her own hands. “The trip was a success, but only because of all the time I spent doing the necessary research to make the trip run smoothly,” she said.

Burnside decided she could help other families through her own business.

Adventure Family Trips, based in Dallas, provides families with information ranging from prices of ski lift tickets to family-friendly lodging.

Burnside’s Web site also lists local eateries and directions and specifications about each location, such as the 33 trails located at Camelback Mountain Resort and its 50 inches of snow annually.

Several locations listed on Burnside’s Web site are also summer hot spots with water parks. Burnside said she is looking to add Red Rock Resort, Hershey Park and several other regional destinations to her list of places to go.

For families traveling in the spring and summer, Adventure Family Trips offers tips and tricks to planning a getaway, activities to do when finally there and what to bring and to leave home.

Burnside said she feels that shorter family trips are the way to go now with the slumping economy.

“There are so many memories to be made, so consider taking your children on an adventure,” Burnside said.
Booking a family trip?

Visit www.adventurefamilytrips.com
or call 1-888-267-4725.

If your job often makes you feel tired, burned out, or stressed to the max, try a new bathrobe on for size. February 9, 2009 is the seventh annual “Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day,” a time to celebrate the freedom home business ownership offers people. Everyday an increasing amount of working parents are waving goodbye to the pressures of the corporate rat race and settling into a more balanced and better quality of life…working from home.

Local entrepreneur, KATE BURNSIDE has been working from home in (DALLAS since (JULY), providing Online family travel planning for those who wish to make arrangements to the local resorts in the Northeast Pennsylvania Region). “Webmomz has given me the support and guidance to be able to do so. There are so many online resources to choose from and I am able to do it right from home! As a single mother I was doubtful but there are many others out there in my position that I can now relate to thanks to Webmoz.com.,” says Kate Burnside.

Kristie Tamsevicius, co-founder of Webmomz.com, a site that empowers women who have chosen to work from home, views having a home business as the ultimate life balancer. “Some people may think that living and working under the same roof creates more stress, but in fact, just the opposite is true. Working from home gives you the freedom to schedule your work around your life, rather than the other way around. That way you can create a life that you truly love.”

And the home business bug isn’t just biting American workers. People in England, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand are celebrating the power of the bathrobe and taking control of their workday and financial future.

Considering that the average worker spends up to 12 hours a day focused on work-related activities, often skipping lunch due to job demands, it’s no wonder that many people feel out of balance. So for the millions of people who have dreamed about a home based business and the opportunity to finally have some life balance, February 9, 2009 may be the perfect day to celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit and map out a new business plan—one that makes the bathrobe your power suit.

On the day, Webmomz.com will hold a random drawing for a bathrobe and a host of other prizes. Register online at www.businessinyourbathrobeday.com.

The Grand Opening of Adventure Family Trips was held at the Small Business Development Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Thursday March 26, 2009.They are pleased to announce the launch of its web based travel agency. The company’s website is www.adventurefamilytrips.com and will have spring/summer packages available for families to choose from.

Based in Dallas, Pennsylvania, Adventure Family Trips provides a new specialty online adventure and tour travel agency that focuses on families traveling with children. Destinations featured on the site are in the Northeastern Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia Regions and packages can be tailored to include a variety of activities and needs. The owner of Adventure Family Trips, Kate Burnside, explains that, “The success of your trip will come from planning; at Adventure Family Trips, we will do all the planning and you can have all the fun!.”

A vacation specialist will be available from 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Monday through Friday, toll free at 1-888-267-4725. If customers have any additional questions outside of daily operating hours, a vacation specialist is available 24/7 at kate@adventurefamilytrips.com and also through their website.

Adventure Family Trips Grand Opening