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10 FABULOUSLY FRUGAL TRAVEL SECRETS FROM THE GLOBETROTTER’S GET-GORGEOUS GUIDE, The World’s First Diet/Beauty Book For Travelers

Want to save money on your travels?  Debbi Kickham, a professional travel journalist for more than 25 years, and former Editor of The Robb Report – shares insider tips in her Amazon.com bestselling book, THE GLOBETROTTER’S GET-GORGEOUS GUIDE: Diet and Beauty Secrets of Travel and Beauty Pros, Traveling Executives and Celebrity Travelers, www.GorgeousGlobetrotter.com. Debbi can offer a bevy of beautiful bargains for all travelers.

1).  Always take your own snacks – don’t buy them at the airport or at your destination.  I swear by powdered peanut butter – you’ll say “Sayonara” to Skippy! Powdered PB won’t be confiscated at security, and it’s low, low, low in calories. FitNutz (www.Fitnutzbutter.com) is gluten-free with no transfats, with just 50 calories in two Tablespoons, with just 1.5 grams of fat.  It’s a dieter’s dream!  Just add water and you have instant PB with no guilt.  I also swear by Sunsweet Cherry-Essence Prunes for a huge antioxidant blast, at just 20 calories per plum – they will put a tiger in your tank no matter where you are (www.sunsweet.com). And don’t leave the house without Diamond Foods’ Cocoa-Roast Almonds, which have just 150 calories in 24 nuts. (www.diamondfoods.com).  These will all tide you over like there’s no tomorrow.  TV hostess Vanna White of Wheel of Fortune, and supermodel Emme both swear by traveling with almonds.

2). Follow the advice of Samantha Brown of The Travel Channel. Samantha shares her big secret in The Globetrotter’s Get-Gorgeous Guide – she always shuns expensive department stores and shops secondhand stores at her destination, when she needs particular clothing. For example, if she needs a sweater in a cold-weather destination, she finds it at a vintage store, faster than you can say, “Cashmere.” Samantha also loves to shop at Anna Lowe in Paris — Anna Lowe was an American who founded the first discount clothing store in Paris in 1938.

3).  The Globetrotter’s Get-Gorgeous Guide has an entire chapter about bargain-shopping in Paris and throughout Paris.  You’ll fall in love with Monoprix and outlet shopping!

4). Pack  your own filled prescription for antibiotics. Nothing’s worse than traveling and spending $100 and countless time to see a non-local physician when you’re sick. Always bring a FILLED prescription for antibiotics (ask your primary care physician at home for a prescription) just in case you get a nasty sinus or stomach infection.  You’ll save hours – and dollars.

5).  Shop for bargains in the country you are in. In Mexico, you can purchase the generic version of Retin-A – the gold standard of skincare retinoids – for about $5, which is a fraction of the price it sells for in the USA.  In France, purchase Oscillococcinum at a steal – it’s the world’s best homeopathic remedy to take at the first signs of cold or flu.  Even if you’re not traveling to France, Oscillo is a must for your traveling medicine bag, and can be found at your local pharmacy. (www.BoironUSA.com)

6).  Shop the pharmacy and supermarket for local skincare and souvenirs. At your destination, check out the pharmacy and supermarket for locally made (and usually inexpensive) skincare, soaps, and gourmet food items – which are great for you and make terrific souvenirs.

7).  Bring a jumprope. If there’s no gym at your hotel, you can always jumprope and get in a workout, even when it’s raining outside and you can’t go for a walk. Short on space?  Just go through the motions and “jumprope” without the rope in your hotel room.  One flight attendant interviewed in the book swears by doing 100 Jumping Jacks the minute she gets to her hotel room. In fact, many flight attendants and travel agents use their hotel room as their gym, where they do push-ups, situps, and run in place.

8). Bring your breakfast. I never leave for a trip without powdered milk, raisins, and Kashi or puffed wheat in my TravelPro suitcase. This little trio can be a lifesaver when you need a healthy breakfast, a quick snack, or a pre-workout boost.  And you won’t be scarfing down expensive oatmeal from room service or the corner deli.

9).  Add orange or lavender oil to a cotton ball. If you want to wake up, dab some sweet orange oil on a cotton ball and inhale – you will feel instantly energized, without spending money on expensive products.  Likewise, if you need to nap on a plane, sniff some lavender oil, and don’t forget your eyeshades and earplugs. You might also wish to take a satin pillowcase, which is broadcaster Joan Lunden’s travel tip – the satin won’t crease your  hair and skin to cause wrinkles. You’ll feel like you’re in the lap of luxury.

10). Coconut oil is a great multi-tasker to travel with. Use it as makeup remover, skin lotion and hair conditioner.

Debbi Karpowicz Kickham is a former Editor of Robb Report Magazine – “The Millionaire’s Magazine” – and currently a Contributing Travel Editor at www.JustLuxe.com.  She is a veteran member of the Society of American Travel Writers, www.satw.org. Reach her at dkk@marketingauthor.com.

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The Globetrotter’s Get-Gorgeous Guide:
Diet and Beauty Secrets of Travel and Beauty Pros,
Traveling Executives and Celebrity Travelers
By: Debbi K. Kickham

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For More Information Contact:
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(781) 407-9305

THE GLOBETROTTER’S GET-GORGEOUS GUIDE TAKES OFF!

Fasten your seatbelts! All aboard! And check-in now! The long-awaited book by Debbi K. Kickham will hit bookshelves in November – and from what we can tell it’s going to be a great ride.

The Globetrotter’s Get-Gorgeous Guide: Diet and Beauty Secrets of Travel and Beauty Pros, Traveling Executives and Celebrity Travelers will be available on Amazon.com.

It’s Allure Magazine meets Fodor’s meets Born to Shop! And the world’s first beauty book for traveling women. Come aboard this Tour of Beauty!

The Globetrotter’s Get-Gorgeous Guide is the very first insider’s guide to all the ways you can look — and feel — frequent-flier fabulous, whether you’re traveling in a plane, train, cruise ship or — dare we say? — the everyday automobile.  This book is your boarding pass to international beauty. Women comprise 43% of all business travelers, and this figure is growing fast, according to the Travel Industry Association (www.tia.org). It’s reached such a high point that some hotels around the country even offer “women-only” floors.

Debbi, a professional travel editor for more than 25 years (and a veteran member of the society of American Travel Writers)  spent years interviewing flight attendants, travel and beauty professionals, travel agents,  celebrities, cruise-line workers, and on-the-go female executives about their tips, tricks and secrets to looking and feeling great in transit, all over the world. She gleaned from them their secrets about their favorite cosmetics and beauty products (found all over the globe), and how to avoid weight gain and feel good while traveling everywhere from Paris to Pittsburgh and from Walla Walla to Bora Bora.  Debbi also uncovered their untold stories about their preferred low-cal foods, favorite destinations, fabulous finds, bargain-shopping tips, and swear-by luggage, products and shoes.

The result? A gold mine of a book — a treasure-trove of information to take the “travail” out of travel. It’s crammed with must-have, irresistible information that’s new, exciting and different — right from the very professional “road warriors” who are in the field (and at airports, cruise terminals, train stations and taxi stands) every day, traveling and still trying to eat healthy, exercise, exfoliate, moisturize, tone up, overcome jet lag, soothe tired feet and get enough sleep. These pros — and of course, Debbi, a globetrotting beauty goddess — know how to travel — and look and feel fabulous and fashionable while doing it.

With the obesity epidemic at an all-time high, and reaching global proportions, and the beauty industry exploding simultaneously, with more and more women traveling representing an explosive growth,  this book is “the perfect storm” whose time has come – and then some. The Globetrotter’s Get-Gorgeous Guide is designed to make a world of difference and is the world’s first diet/beauty book for travelers.

It’s the first book to address how you can both travel — and still look and feel beautiful.  Sounds like an oxymoron but the truth is, there are ways that you can travel and not let your diet-and-exercise-and-beauty routine take a vacation. And let’s face it — it can be expensive to look and feel great — that’s easy when you’re Nicole Kidman on a Learjet. This book is for the Average Jane who can’t afford private-jet treatment – but still deserves the best.

The Globetrotter’s Get-Gorgeous Guide features:

  • The best-ever low-calorie snacks to travel with, including powdered peanut butter, which Debbi calls “The best-ever Miracle Diet Food, with 85% less fat than regular peanut butter.”
  • The Top 10 items in your carry-on bag and checked luggage
  • The Top 10 cosmetics to travel with
  • Interviews with flight attendants about their diet/exercise routines and favorite beauty brands – there’s a reason flight attendants look so good, you know! Special section on The Singapore Girls.
  • Interviews with celebrities and how they keep looking and feeling great while traveling (otherwise they’d look like ‘mere mortals”)
  • Interviews with singers and dancers on cruise ships about how they stay in shape – with ALL THAT FREE FOOD constantly around them
  • Beauty secrets and bargain shopping tips from travel and beauty editors at national magazines
  • Info about the latest and greatest luggage
  • Packing tips,  to take the “lug” out of luggage
  • Hotels with exercise programs versus just a gym
  • How to stay thin on a cruise ship: It’s not the “Impossible Dream!”
  • Cruise lines with healthy specialty healthy cuisine menus
  • How to overcome jet lag so you don’t look and feel 20 years older when you arrive
  • Little-known tips to staying trim while traveling (You actually don’t need a rope in order to jump rope)
  • Spas around the world offering the most popular treatments ( asked of each spa) versus money-wasting ineffective treatments
  • Fabulous travel accessories
  • Round-ups of cosmetics companies offering travel sizes on key and “must-have” products
  • Info on cosmetics companies around the globe, offering products made with local indigenous ingredients
  • Trend-setting tips such as traveling with a pool thermometer (to make sure the  hotel pool’s warm enough) and replacing your luggage wheels with Rollerblade wheels (to make then practically wheel themselves.)
  • And the offbeat – like the seasoned traveler who brings a Rolling Pin to work out the kinks in her hamstrings and calves! Or bringing a hot-water bottle on the plane to keep you warm.
  • Special Bonus Section: Bargain-shopping secrets in France

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The Globetrotter’s Get-Gorgeous Guide:
Diet and Beauty Secrets of Travel and Beauty Pros,
Traveling Executives and Celebrity Travelers
By: Debbi K. Kickham

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For More Information Contact:
Debbikkickham@hotmail.com
(781) 407-9305

10 OFFBEAT TRAVEL TIPS TO TAKE THE “TRAVAIL” OUT OF “TRAVEL”

Debbi Kickham, author of The Globetrotter’s Get-Gorgeous Guide, the world’s first beauty book for travelers, offers a wealth of insider tips and secrets that can actually make traveling a pleasure!  Debbi, a professional travel and beauty editor and writer, spent years interviewing flight attendants, travel and beauty professionals, traveling executives and celebrities, about diet, beauty and exercise strategies that make a world of difference in their travels. She unearthed a gold mine of irresistible information.  Here are 10 untraditional tactics for traveling.

  • Bring a hot-water bottle. One of Debbi’s interviewees confessed to bringing a hot-water bottle, which she filled on the plane, in order to stay warm and cozy while sailing through the skies.
  • Replace your luggage wheels with Rollerblade wheels. A flight attendant gave Debbi this extraordinary tip. She says this technique, which takes about five minutes, will have your luggage practically rolling itself.
  • Stash a rolling pin in your checked luggage. That’s right — the same rolling pin used to make pastry. One road warrior takes a rolling pin so she can roll out the kinks in her legs.
  • Pack a pool thermometer. Want to swim at your destination’s pool?  What if it’s too cold? One travel writer “checks in and checks out the pool” the minute she arrives. If the temperature is too cold, they ask management to raise it to about 80 degrees, so they can swim comfortably.
  • Jumprope in your room – without the jumprope. This is Debbi’s age-old technique, which she has used everywhere from Walla Walla to Bora Bora. When she wants to exercise, a gym isn’t available, and she wants to do aerobics, she simply goes through the motions.
  • Carry on your own air purifier. A cruise-ship professional confessed that she wears a personal air filter on the plane, to make the atmosphere more healthy.
  • Ice your face. If you really want moisturizer and serums to sink into your skin, take the advice of one travel editor: ice your face for a few minutes first. Her dermatologist gave her this great advice!
  • Bring a blow-up ball. One fitness enthusiast who travels frequently always packs a blow-up ball so she can do more effective stomach crunches.
  • Add Vitamin C powder to your water. Want a more effective beauty product? Add Vitamin C powder to water, to make a terrific tonic, says a beauty professional. Or add it to your moisturizer, to get better results and an antioxidant blast.
  • Bring your own salad dressing to restaurants. Why bother with fattening dressings around the world, when you want to watch your weight? One cruise-ship staffer told Debbi that she travels everywhere with her own salad dressing packets. You can buy ‘em at www.minimusbiz.com.

The Globetrotter’s Get-Gorgeous Guide is the very first insider’s guide to all the ways you can look — and feel — frequent-flier fabulous, whether you’re traveling in a plane, train, cruise ship or — dare we say? — the everyday automobile. Debbi, a professional travel editor for more than 25 years (and a veteran member of the society of American Travel Writers)  spent years interviewing flight attendants, travel and beauty professionals, travel agents,  celebrities, cruise-line workers, and on-the-go female executives about their tips, tricks and secrets to looking and feeling great in transit, all over the world. She gleaned from them their secrets about their favorite cosmetics and beauty products (found all over the globe), and how to avoid weight gain and feel good while traveling everywhere from Paris to Pittsburgh and from Walla Walla to Bora Bora.  Debbi also uncovered their untold stories about their preferred low-cal foods, favorite destinations, fabulous finds, bargain-shopping tips, and swear-by luggage, products and shoes.

It’s Allure Magazine meets Travel+Leisure Magazine meets Born to Shop!