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Insider Tips for Traveling Smart

Posted at 9:27 AM, Mar 11, 2019
and last updated 2019-03-11 09:27:07-04

How to use the service to your advantage to find restaurants favored by locals, avoid crowds, use local transit, identify cool local events, and determine don’t-miss landmarks. You can even coordinate with family and friends using Google Maps to stay in the loop on where your loved ones are, and even where you’d like to go to dinner.

LaToya Drake is a founding member of the News Lab at Google. She provides television and radio commentary on news, social media and pop culture trends. She also manages programs and partnerships with innovative news and media organizations, with the goal of helping to build the future of media. She previously worked at Microsoft and AOL and as an adjunct at NYU. She is a graduate of Georgetown and Florida State University.