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Mac Lacy
Mac Lacy is president and publisher of The Group Travel Leader Inc. Mac has been traveling and writing professionally ever since a two-month backpacking trip through Europe upon his graduation with a journalism degree from the University of Evansville in 1978.
A couple prepares for a day in the mountains at the Wilderswil train station Our group was treated to two very different Switzerland experiences in our five days on the ground. The first few days we were there it was snowing in the Alps. We were there in celebration of the Jungfrau Railways […]
Vintage WW II planes are the stars at Virginia Beach’s Military Aviation Museum When Jim Coggin picked me up Monday morning at the airport for a couple of days of touring Virginia Beach, he nailed his colors to the wall early. ‘We want to make sure that bank travel directors across America are aware […]
Thirty-one Travel Alliance Partners (TAP) tour operator companies hosted 200 destination representatives for TAP Dance in Shreveport.
In Selma, Ala., there are two civil rights sites that will become even more prominent in 2015 but will be included on many trips to Birmingham in 2013.
Kate Scopetti of Mid-Atlantic Receptive Services is a receptive operator who is already involved in packaging civil rights sites.
Fifty years later, Birmingham launches a look back at 1963 and invites visitors to come along.
Nearly 40 American volunteers joined Tourism Cares on May 3-7 in Cusco.
*The five photos in this blog from our cleanup project were provided courtesy of Terrapin Blue Local tourism leader Rogers Valencia Espinoza addresses the gathering. Tourism Cares CEO Bruce Beckham is shown at right. Our whirlwind adventure in Peru was wrapped up with a boisterous welcome back to Cusco for a cleanup project […]
Terraced hillsides step downward from the city’s walls and courtyards Understandably, Machu Picchu regularly rests atop the various bucket lists of worldwide travelers published by magazines and websites. Its iconic images of a ‘lost world’ resting high in the Andean mountain range are immediately recognizeable to most of us, like the Taj Mahal or […]
A young boy in Ollantaytambo peered down an alley as we passed On Saturday, we visited Ollantaytambo, where we caught our train to Machu Picchu. This village name means resting place for a warrior and high above us on the mountainsides were terraces and garrisons where Incan warriors tried to stop the advance of the […]
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