Most investors have seen their retirement funds plummet by a third this year, but there’s a nice way to ease that pain: go traveling where your dollars have risen in value by an equal amount.
My latest Tripso column is a rundown on spots where the greenback is up by 30% or more this year and it’s a nice list. In some cases, we’re talking about countries that had gotten surprisingly expensive in relation to their intrinsic relative value (compared to say, most of Latin America or Southeast Asia) and have dropped back down to earth. In other cases it’s just an attractive travel destination suddenly on sale.
The number of countries joining this list is now in the double digits. Plenty more are down by a fourth. Read it all here: On your next vacation, head to a “one-third club” country to save money. Here’s the MSNBC version .
(Hint—the famous hot outdoor bathing pool pictured here is in one of the destinations.)
