Linkapalooza - Asia on the cheap

Your first look of the best of travel on the web this week:

Travel destinations, dreams and ideas:

• Visiting Tokyo on the cheap [Four Hour Workweek Blog]
• Affordable Fiji [SF Gate]
• 36 hours in Knoxville, Tennessee [NY Times]
• Dominica offers an ecological escape from the everyday [Chicago Tribune]
• Top 10 new hotels [Reuters]
• Tunisia: Where Europe and Africa meet [IHT]
• The complete guide to Great British bike rides [Independent]

Travel intelligence:

• How to find (and book) bargain airfares [IHT]
• Every traveler should pack these basic must haves [SF Gate]

Travel business:

• America's Best Value hotel chain gains share with flexible franchise plans [NY Times]
  
• Online travel agents continue to lose share to supplier websites [Hotel Marketing]
  

The bizarreness:

• 10 of the world's most bizarre hotels [RatesToGo.com]
• Tourists visit Bulgaria's 10th century 'erotic' graffiti [UPI]
• A brief history of stewardess porn [Jezebel]
  

[Awesome photo via Flickr]