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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.
It seems to be a good use of this column once a year to summarize what I learned from the buyer breakout sessions at our annual Select Traveler Conference. At these sessions, I ask group travel planners various questions about their current trips. • On the issue of travel interests in light of international terrorism […]
The four of us have agreed: We’re going back to Southeast Asia. It’s a long way from Kentucky to the Mekong, but what’s 24 hours in aisle seats and airports when the other side of the world awaits? Two couples spent two weeks in three countries in January, including a week on the Mekong River […]
The 2016 Select Traveler Conference Little Rock, Arkansas kicked off on Super Bowl Sunday to welcome delegates from all 50 states and internationally.
A record crowd turned out for the American Bus Association (ABA) 2016 Marketplace in Louisville, Kentucky, January 9-12.
Paula Twidale becomes the first woman chair of USTOA and the annual travel report are released at the 2015 USTOA Conference in Chicago.
Wit Tuttell is enjoying the exposure North Carolina gains from a rare "double" by hosting the Travel South International Showcase last month in Charlotte and the upcoming Travel South Domestic Showcase this March in Winston-Salem.
Liz Bittner shares her opinion on why the South consistently ranks as America's top-rated travel region.
I‘m a Matt Damon fan. I’ve seen most of his films and can’t pass up any of his Jason Bourne roles if I run across them at night. Most of you are probably familiar with Matt Damon. I’m also a Wadi Rum fan. I count it as one of the places on Earth to which […]
Don’t tell my favorite travel companion, but someday I want to be like Roy Sidlo. My favorite travel companion is my wife, Kim. Roy is a retired cinematographer from Chicago who travels on his own quite a bit. I met him on a Danube River cruise with Mayflower Tours in May. We met early on […]
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