Summary: Rudy's news segment opens the show as usual, (which unexpected country just banned smoking in public places?), and Conde Nast Traveler's consumer news director, Wendy Perrin, offers helpful consumer advice on one of the hottest segments of travel these days: river cruising. See the August issue of Conde Nast Traveler for a special section on the subject. And the show's favorite cranky traveler, Joe Brancatelli of the terrific travel web site JoeSentMe.com, delivers a eulogy for the Blackberry, once the business traveler's best friend. (Joe talked to the show via his Blackberry that he fears will soon give way to an iPhone or Android phone.) Then, as the first week of the summer Olympics in London draw to a close, Rudy checks in with "our man in London," Vic Garvey. Garvey, a former NBC-TV executive, handled the logistics of covering a dozen Olympics for the television network, and he's currently a consultant to Fortune 500 companies. He reports the empty hotel rooms and available tickets he described on the show the previous week are pretty much gone, and London is rocking 'round the clock. Rudy closes the show with some of the best travel bargains around this week.
