Playgrounds may look innocent, but they can be hazardous to your child's health. Check out our safety tips for safe summer play. Read More »

Single parents traveling with their kids are uniquely different from families traveling, and need more respect from the travel industry. Read More »

After years of false starts, Twitter is playing a key role in travel, at least with these three innovative travel companies. Take a look. Read More »

Late fall or early summer are perfect times to visit Nantucket, far from summer"s "madding crowds," and very much how she really is without the excess of tourists. . Read More »

Why do the very wealthy and luxury travelers actually avoid luxury travel brands and products? Too many visuals and not enough hard information, is one reason. Read More »

Why Travel Marketers Are Wasting Time on Social Media How surprising is this: In the second half of last year, fewer that 1% of visitors arrived at a hotel or travel booking site, via a social media link or a link shared by by a friend. So reports Hotelmarketing.com. Does this mean hotels are wasting their time chasing the Holy ... Read More »

Moving Beyond Dedicated Review Sites Certainly this is not to say that powerhouse, dedicated review sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor will soon be obsolete, or redundant. But as travelers increasingly use ratings and reviews less to research a trip ( or product/service), and more to actually buying, the importance of broad-based, dedicated rating sites may be declining. Why? Customers are ... Read More »

Will Google and Facebook Dominate Travel? Of course Will Google harness its awesome search capacity, plus its Youtube, plus social indicators from a person’s searches to make travel suggestions and shape travel experiences? And book travel too. We say, yes. They say, “yes” too. It’s widely accepted that travelers are seriously unhappy with online Travel Agents (OTA’s) – the big-box ... Read More »

By Hardie Karges Travelers probably already know that hostels can save  a bunch of bucks in super-expensive Europe.  But they can save a lot of money in Asia, too.  Or Mexico, And  some now rival boutique hotels for style and atmosphere.  They aren’t just for youth anymore, either.  They are not your parents’ hostels! Though still in their infancy in ... Read More »

Digital Natives, Digital Travelers Own the Travel Experience In essence, travelers will create and share their own travel experience. They, not tourism officials or travel writers will shape and determine the nature and quality of travel. Professor Dimitrios Buhalis , Director of the eTourism Lab at Bounemouth University (UK), tells us what we already intuit: the world “is going to ... Read More »