I've always thought of using a travel agent as a luxury expense, because I had previously assumed that you had to pay them ...

Fraud is especially high in car rentals, taxis, and food services, with cities like Cancun, Bangkok, and Los Angeles reporting the most incidents. Mastercard recommends using credit cards with fraud ...

The Broken Taxi Meter Swindle Travel fraud surged dramatically in 2024, with scams rising 18 percent during summer peak season and 28 percent during winter peak season, according to Mastercard ...

BBB Scam Tracker Data The Better Business Bureau’s Scam Tracker reports 9,403 travel/vacation/timeshare scams in 2025, many involving fake listings, booking websites, or fraudulent exit services. Tips ...

A regulator announced that the travel company is “prohibited from booking any further travel.” A British Columbia travel ...

Travel is supposed to ignite wonder and excitement, yet in 2025, travelers face an increasingly complex landscape of digital scams. The schemes have grown sophisticated, using technology, psychology, ...

The travel industry is one of the sectors most susceptible to fraud, with scams rising 18% during the summer peak season and 28% in the winter peak season in 2024, according to a new report. Stream ...

As millions of Americans plan their 2025 vacations, sophisticated scammers are exploiting unsuspecting travelers with increasingly clever schemes that have cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars ...

With the economy slowing and the cost of living still very steep across the country, travelers are searching for bargains this summer to make vacation dreams a reality. The effort to scale back travel ...

Every year, consumer reports to Better Business Bureau (BBB) focused on travel, vacation, or timeshare scams significantly increase during the holiday traveling season. In the fourth quarter of 2024, ...

Warmer weather often means travel—a fact that scammers know very well. You just want to plan your vacation, so they flood the internet with fake booking sites, phony emails, and bogus deal links to ...