Number one on your lists this week, Travelistic viewers: beaches in top tags, and Jamaica in top searches. Do I sense Spring Break planning in the works?

Travel headlines for the weekend of 1/28/07.

As of today, US citizens arriving by air from outside the 50 States, no matter what their point of origin, must have a passport to re-enter the country. (Unless you’re coming from Puerto Rico or the USVI, that is. Loophole!)

Erik Olsen over at Gadling posted about our travel news show The Map today, saying it’s “like you’re getting the real scuttlebutt, as opposed to a more stale corporate feel.”

Travel headlines for the weekend of 12/17/06.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 12/03/06.

There seems to have been a choice of two topics in the travel stories published this weekend: creepy, Halloween-themed tales, or serious newspapers (the WaPo, the NYT) trying a fresh take on the been-there, done-that subject of the Caribbean.

There was a bumper crop of worthwhile features this weekend – including a special on Africa from the LA Times, and coverage of who’d-a-thunk-it destinations like Johannesburg and LA’s Valley – so I’ll cut the preamble and get down to business.

Last weekend’s travel stories were slim pickings, no doubt due to writers and editors phoning it in before skipping out of town, but apparently on 4th of July weekend, we the people feel very, er, nautical.