This week’s souvenirs come from the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, where I found these oh-so-New Orleans items for sale in the airport gift shops.

Do you poke through the shops when you’re stuck at the airport? If you’re hanging around and find something fun, inexpensive and ‘of’ the city or region, please snap a photo and send it along. If your souvenir is featured on Souvenir Sunday, I’ll send you a fun travel souvenir.

This week’s finds come from Dubai International Airport , which is known for offering the world’s largest duty free operation.

Gold is a big draw at this airport and each year Dubai Duty Free racks up gold sales of more than $120 million.

No souvenirs made of gold fit into my Souvenir Sunday guidelines of “fun, inexpensive and ‘of’ the city or region,” so I headed for the gift shops offering more affordable items, such as hookahs, wooden camels and sand.

iStore opens at Boston Logan International Airport

Looks what’s (unofficially) opened up in Terminal C at Boston Logan International Airport: the first US iStore Boutique.

Said to be the first of its kind in the United States, this Montreal-based shop already has outlets in the Montreal, Edmonton, Toronto and Vancouver airports (and maybe Calgary – the website says “2012″) and stocks all manner of Apple products as well as other brand-name items from InCase, Skullcandy, Monster, iLuv, and Sennheiser.

This and 13 other new Terminal C shops will have their grand opening on Thursday.

That’s why I’m a fan of the discount-filled coupon booklet that the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport puts out every two months, the airports that put discount offers on the back of printed boarding passes and the new collaboration between Yowza!! and HMSHost, which operates concessions at many airports.

Right now, you can use the Yowza!! app to find coupons for use at Tampa International Airport and at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), where there are discounts offered for Pinkberry, California Pizza Kitchen and LaBrea Bakery. The program should roll out at other airports around the country later this year.

Missed Mardi Gras?

Me too. But StuckatTheAirport.com fan Bernard Ouellette was in New Orleans recently and found these great souvenirs at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.

Have you found a great souvenir while you were stuck at the airport? If it’s fun, inexpensive and ‘of’ the city or region, please snap a photo and send it along. If your souvenir is featured here on StuckatTheAirport.com, I’ll send you a travel-themed souvenir.

But it turns out you can buy those cookies on the ground. Lotus Bakery will mail them to you (there’s even something called Biscoff spread) and, to my surprise, you can also buy the cookies at some airports. I saw this display at a newsstand in the baggage claim of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Biscoff cookies for sale at Sea-Tac Airport

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Best bets are souvenirs that are inexpensive, ‘of’ the city or region and, ideally, a bit offbeat. Snap a photo, check the price and if your souvenir is featured on Souvenir Sunday I’ll send your a travel-related souvenir.

But I gravitated instead to the many displays of Tiger Balm in the airport pharmacies and gift shops.

Tiger Balm, made by the Haw Par Corporation of Singapore, is a pungent ointment made with menthol, camphor, clove oil, cajuput oil and mint oil, and is said to be able to cure everything from headaches, migraines and colds to arthritic pains, muscle strains and, according to one sign I saw at the airport, flatulence.

I was ready to buy a few Tiger Balm tins when a saleswoman sidled up to me and suggested I take a look at the tins filled with Electric Balm, which were stacked nearby.

“This product is also made in Singapore,” she told me, “But it’s less expensive and smells better.”

A box of 16 menthol-scented tins was 20 Singapore dollars, about US$16.

Sold. And this week’s pick for Souvenir Sunday.

Next time you’re stuck at the airport, take a moment to check out the stores. If you find something that’s fun, inexpensive and ‘of’ the city or region, please snap a photo and send it along. If your souvenir is featured on Stuck at The Airport, I’ll send you a special airport-related souvenir.

I don’t quite have the time – or the stomach – to scroll through all 31 (so far) pages of entries in the Wyndham Rewards My Horrible Holiday Gift Contest, but from the few pages I did view I can tell that a) there are a lot of clueless gift givers out there and b) the competition for winning the grand prize of two million Wyndham Rewards points is going to be tough.

The deadline for entering a bad gift – from this holiday season or one long gone – is January 10th. And voting for the most horrible gift kicks off on January 17th.

Four finalists will receive 25,000 Wyndham Rewards points (redeemable for a $100 retailer gift card) and everyone who enters has a chance to win weekly prizes of 12,500 Wyndham Rewards, redeemable for a $50 gift retail gift card. Which you might use to buy the horrible gift-giver a clue…

Then consider placing some of these items under the tree.

Tierra Ideas of Raleigh, N.C., turns decommissioned (and thoroughly dry-cleaned) aircraft seat back covers and curtains from Delta Air Lines airplanes into business card holders, wallets, laptop covers and a wide variety of travel bags that sell for $15 to $175.

About once a year, company founder Matt Mahler flies down to Delta’s Reclamation Center in Atlanta and drives home in a rented 24-foot U-Haul truck filled with worn fabrics consisting of blue wool blends, navy wool blends, and blue and gray leather.

“I store the fabric in our warehouse and sew the bags using a 1970s-era Singer industrial sewing machine I bought used from the factory floor of a furniture manufacturing company that went out of business near High Point, North Carolina,” said Mahler.

In addition to wallets, the line includes an overnight duffle bag, a laptop bag, a messenger bag, a small shoulder bag (The Concourse) and the Aero Drawstring Bag, all made with an average of 85 percent recycled materials and many sporting fabric patterns that will be familiar to Delta Air Lines frequent fliers. As part of a fundraising Kickstarter Project, Tierra Ideas is also making the Air Bag, which has 90 percent recycled content and is based on a bag commissioned by Recycle Runway for their Environmental Stewardess Exhibition. Cost: $150.

For something flashier and more obviously once part of an airplane, consider the large and shiny objects that MotoArt makes out of recycled commercial and vintage airplane parts in El Segundo, Calif.

MotoArt managing partner Dave Hall haunts airplane boneyards for materials he and his crew transform into lighting fixtures, beds, bars, desks, lamps, conference tables and other furniture for prices that start at $250 and soar to more than $30,000.

“We turn large cowlings into reception desks, rear stabilizers into executive desks and fuselage into office dividers. For those that like that stuff, it’s an expensive hobby, but we also take airplane windows frames and turn them into picture frames.”

(This article originally appeared on msnbc.com’s Overhead Bin)

This week’s treats come from Copenhagen International Airport, which began offering free Wi-Fi to travelers the first week in December (yay!) and where I found almost too many tempting and offbeat things to buy.

Here’s just a sampling:

In addition to jars of herring and what seemed liked a dozen varieties of black licorice, the gourmet food store at the airport sells packages of Danish-style hollowed-out-in-the-center hot dog rolls.

Viking statuettes are quite popular -

But, of course, so is candy. And in amongst the choices in the duty free shop was this Haribo offering of candy larvae.

Even though the package says “Kids and grown-ups love it so,” I left the larvae behind and instead chose to bring home this Lego airplane.