How One Family learned to Give Up Electronics and Love Aruba Kim Orlando loves to travel. She should, she's the CEO of travelingmom.com and she especially loves to travel with her family. When the idea of a family trip to Aruba came up, Orlando knew she wanted to go and, better still, ...
Long Live the Titanic! w/video “God Himself could not sink this ship,” a crewman of the Titanic said to one Mrs. Albert Campbell, as she boarded the ship in Southampton, England In May 1911, the RMS Titanic gracefully slid into the bustling harbor of Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she was built by ...
Book Review: Hypertravel-100 Countries in Two Years Hardie Karges has one self-professed goal in life: to see every country in the world. And he’s off to a grand start! His recently self-published book, Hypertravel -100 Countries in Two Years is less about Karges’ journey to most of the countries defined by the United ...
Women Family Travel Bloggers Rule the Internet Used to be they were called “mommybloggers,” but that was before their Klout scores soared and corporations avidly courted them. And while I may be exaggerating, I’m not by much. This group of bright, engaged mothers (and some dads) who travel with their kids and ...
Apple Ends Boring Visitor Information Centers One of the vexing ironies of travel is that Visitor Information Centers (VIC) do little to nothing to enhance or promote the destination they represent. If anything, they can be a “turn off” for the destination. Visitor centers are usually some functional building filled with tired ...
Can Travel Technology Reduce the Stress and Uncertainty of Travel? Andrew Curry, Director and Co-author of The Futures Company is a smart guy. When he discuses the future of travel in Travel Daily News he makes it a point of saying he tries to avoid techno-centric visions of the future, stuff like ...
TripAdvisor Barred from Claiming Reviews are Honest, Real Hotelmarketing’s web site broke news saying that a UK advertising “watchdog” ruled that since TripAdvisor’s reviews can be posted with no form of verification, TripAdvisor “must no longer claim all of its reviews are honest or from real people.” What can this possibly mean ...
Boulangeries and Mercis: Canada's French Eastern Townships The fields of deep lavender (Bleu Lavande) stretch vividly toward the green hills. Donkeys at the donkey ranch nuzzle their mistress, and the honey bees buzz about at the Miellerie Lune de Miel, the honey farm. About 150 miles south of Quebec and maybe 90 miles ...
Snapshot of the American Traveler It's a bit startling to learn that our passion for travel is second only to our passion for our families. I learned this from travel trade sites which often have more interesting things to say than consumer travel publications or sites. Travel trade sites and magazines often have ...
Babymoons, Booties and B&Bs Jennifer and Craig Ruckert, a very attractive 30 something couple were sitting in front of a terrific fire, enjoying some great cheeses and local wines, a regular pre-dinner ritual at the Tidewater Inn, in the laid back, classy Connecticut shore town of Madison. Except Jennifer wasn't drinking wine. ...
