USA and AUS Swap Travelling Workers

If you're one of the many Aussie or North American readers of In Your Pocket -- and cor blimey, crikey, golly-gosh, damn tootin' there's a lot of you -- you'll be pleased to know that a new agreement is in place that will allow young Aussies and Americans to work in each others' countries from October 31 this year. For two countries with notoriously tight borders, this is a step in the right direction. More info from the Herald-Sun (a Melbourne-based newspaper).

Americans invade Romania. Awesome!

Americans are about to hit Eastern Europe in a big way this summer. The AAA, America’s largest association of travel agents, claims that while bookings to Europe are down 2.4 per cent, booking to Eastern Europe are up 55 per cent. The stats cover booking for travel in and between June and August this year.

Romania seems to be set to cop the greatest onslaught of the yank attack, with figures showing a 700 per cent increase in American travel.

That might sound scary as American’s have a reputation of being loud-mouth, barge-arsed morons with no dress sense. Another recent survey, however, has revealed that Americans are in fact the most civil travellers, second only to the Japanese. But they’ve still got no dress sense.

Source: Travelmole (registration required).