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Savvy Traveler Rudy Maxa

It's an excellent time to travel. Deals are everywhere. Fewer people are traveling, creating great deals at hotels and airlines. By Up to Date, March 4, 2009

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Kansas City , Mo. – Rudy Maxa, known to millions of public radio listeners as "The Savvy Traveler" talks with Up to Date host Steve Kraske about international travel deals in this down economy.

We look at various ways to save money when traveling abroad, including airfare and hotel bargains, which countries have favorable exchange rates, and how the downturn in the economy can mean deals for anyone who is looking for a vacation.

Rudy Maxa is an award-winning writer and contributing editor with National Geographic Traveler magazine and one of America's premier consumer travel broadcasters on public radio and television.

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