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Portmanteau

'Motel' merged motor and hotel 

Roadside motels appeared with American car culture in the 1920s, and the blended word appeared with them.

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7 Wonders

The ancient list was a tourist guide

Greek writers compiled the seven wonders as sights worth seeing around the Mediterranean, all within reach of a traveller from the Hellenistic world. Places beyond it were never considered.

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Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year triggers the largest human migration

In the weeks around Chinese New Year, hundreds of millions of journeys are made as people travel home for the reunion dinner — the biggest annual movement of people on Earth.

#festivals#lunarnewyear#china#travel